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A leadership reality check

March 17, 2020
It doesn't matter how good the plan is to combat the COVID-19 outbreak if leaders don't lead, writes Donald F. Kettl .

Coronavirus in Texas: Prison population at risk of outbreak

March 14, 2020
More than 20 percent of the Texas prison population is over the age of 50, the most at-risk population when it comes to the new coronavirus. But the state prison system makes it difficult, and...

Coronavirus in Texas: Prison population at risk of outbreak

March 14, 2020
More than 20 percent of the Texas prison population is over the age of 50, the most at-risk population when it comes to the new coronavirus.

Needed: A finance agency to handle the financial meltdown from the coronavirus

March 12, 2020
Congress should create a Health Finance Corporation to address resource allocation and the financing of the Covid-19 response.

Little-known Alabama law says felons must carry special ID or go to jail

March 12, 2020
Michele Deitch, senior lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin's School of Law and Lyndon B.

Needed: A finance agency to handle the financial meltdown from the coronavirus

March 12, 2020
Congress should create a Health Finance Corporation to address resource allocation and the financing of the Covid-19 response. Immediately, write LBJ's Michael Lind and James Galbraith .

Little-known Alabama law says felons must carry special ID or go to jail

March 12, 2020
Michele Deitch , senior lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin's School of Law and Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, said it would be difficult to argue that a year in jail is not a...

The federalism divide is shading government's response to COVID-19

March 12, 2020
LBJ's Donald F. Kettl : We can't afford a government where the odds of an effective attack on the novel coronavirus depend on where citizens live.

California prisons cancel visits, citing coronavirus. Conjugal stays to continue

March 11, 2020
California's prison system is going to stop allowing the public to visit inmates as it tries to prevent the new coronavirus from infecting prisoners, guards and staff at its nearly 40 institutions...