(With all this talk about spending caps and property taxes, we sometimes overlook how that affects specific policy like insuring children and seniors, paying our teachers, educating students, making college affordable, etc.
Great read! - promoted by Matt Glazer)
The Houston Chronicile ran this frontpage subhead today: "Over the past 6 years, at least 101 inmates have died at the Harris County Jail". Seventy inmates lost their lives in Dallas County's jail in the same period. That earned them a stinging rebuke from, of all places, the Bush Justice Department. Why is this happening? The linked video has the whole story. I make a few key points beneath the fold...
