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How Bad Laws Get Made In Texas

Posted on June 17th, 2009 11:40am by Wick Allison
Filed under Politics

This time it is not the lobby’s fault. It is good intentions run amok. Tara Hill examines how a child-abuse law got passed and why it is dangerous.

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