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Citizen Agenda: An Update For Members Of TexPIRG
Summer 2007
Standing Up To Powerful Interests
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Top Stories   State Sen. Jeff Wentworth
WENTWORTH CALLS FOR REFORM—State Sen. Jeff Wentworth is leading the call for bipartisan redistricting reform. TexPIRG supports any measure that would create an independent commission to evaluate districting.


 

The Fight For Fairer Districts
Over the last few months, Texas leaders attempted to reform the state’s congressional redistricting process. TexPIRG worked at the Capitol to support any bipartisan commission to handle redistricting, rather than leaving such power in the hands of the state Legislature.

Texas Suffering From Toxic Chemicals
According to a new report released by TexPIRG in March, Texas was one of three states that accounted for 40 percent of developmental toxic pollution and 70 percent of reproductive toxic pollution for the year 2004.

 


news Briefs  

Fighting Predatory Mortgage Lending

Victory On Ethics Reform: Lobbyist Gifts Banned

TexPIRG Opposes Trans-Texas Corridor

Identity Theft Addressed By Texas Legislature

 

Homeowners’ Rights: How Builders Abuse The System

 

    The Last Word
   

Toxics: Speaking Up About A Silent Threat

 

 

 

TexPIRG Citizen Agenda
Summer 2007
Vol. 5, No. 1

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