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The Bill Powers Situation
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May 21, 2014
UT Regent Faces Slow Impeachment Process
The battle between some Texas legislators and UT Regent Wallace Hall is moving towards the impeachment process, but it will be a long, slow journey.
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May 13, 2014
Texas House Increases Pressure on UT Regent
The Texas House Select Committee on Transparency in State Agency Operations says it has enough reasons to impeach UT Regent Wallace Hall -- but they would like the UT Board of Regents to address the problem first.
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April 29, 2014
UT Regent Secretly Taped Chancellor, Other Regents
The soap opera that has involved the UT System Board of Regents, the State Legislature, and UT-Austin President William Powers now involves a clandestine taping of a closed door meeting.
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December 9, 2013
UT Regents to study Bill Powers job performance
The UT System Board of Regents will take a look at the job performance of UT Austin President William Powers this Thursday. The Board will go into executive session during its regularly scheduled meeting to discuss Powers.
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November 12, 2013
Wallace Hall Subpoenaed
The investigation into possible articles of impeachment for UT-System Regent Wallace Hall continues this week -- but will gather more interest in early December when Hall testifies before the House committee.
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November 8, 2013
State Rep to Gov. Perry: Regent Hall should resign
One state representative on the committee investigating the possibility of impeaching UT System Regent Wallace Hall thinks he has a solution to the controversy. Hall should simply resign.
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November 5, 2013
Legislator wants Wallace Hall's iPhone records
The battle between members of the Texas State Legislature and some UT Regents continues through the fall -- now with State Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer asking to see the records of personal devices of Regent Wallace Hall.
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October 22, 2013
UT Regent impeachment hearings commence
The investigation into the possible impeachment of UT Regent Wallace Hall officially starts in the Texas Legislature with two days of committee hearings in Austin this week.
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October 17, 2013
Perry's people harass Powers "Because we can."
The battle over higher education reforms continues to heat up and focus on the conflict between members of the UT Board of Regents and UT-Austin President William Powers.
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September 25, 2013
Impeachment investigation of Wallace Hall on-going
While the soap opera that is Texas Football unfolds on the field this season, another soap opera involving members of the Board of Regents, the President of UT-Austin and members of the legislature will also continue apace.
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August 24, 2013
Impeachment Committee hires high powered attorney
The battle between UT System Regent Wallace Hall and several state legislators went up a notch Friday when the House Committee looking into possible impeachment of Hall hired famous Houston Attorney Rusty Hardin as its special counsel.
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August 23, 2013
UT Regents Get New Chair
UT System Regents selected Paul Foster as their Chair heading into the 2013-2014 school year, but the tensions between members of the regents and the legislature continue.
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August 16, 2013
UT Regent Hall Ready to Take on Legislators
The battle between some members of the UT System board of regents and UT-Austin President William Powers have spilled over to the Texas Legislature, with possible impeachment proceedings against Regent Hall being investigated.
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August 7, 2013
UT Regent Open Records Request Cancelled
Regent Wallace Hall, facing possible articles of impeachment, has had his latest open records request cancelled.
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June 20, 2013
UT Board of Regents Fight: Business & Personal
The war of words between the Texas Legislature and the UT System Board of Regents over alledged micromanaging of the UT-Austin campus is turning personal, and it should continue throughout the sumer.
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June 12, 2013
Powers, Board of Regents Fight Far From Over
After taking a break during the Texas Legislative Session, the battle between the UT System Board of Regents and backers of UT President Bill Powers is picking up apace.
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April 12, 2013
Senate Vote Bodes Well for UT President Powers
With an overwhemling 29-2 vote, the Texas Senate passed a bill that could make it difficult for the UT System Board of Regents to fire UT Austin President Bill Powers.
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April 11, 2013
UT Board of Regents blinks, turns over documents
The UT Board of Regents decided to make nice Thursday and fully comply with a documents request from the Texas Legislature.