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Oral History Interview with Jaspyr Sanford, July 13, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Jaspyr Sanford, July 13, 2015

Interview with Jaspyr Sanford of Huntsville, Texas. In her interview, she describes her early life and education, experiences with desegregation, racial issues in East Texas, civil rights activism, her work as a librarian at Sam Houston State University. Much of her interview focuses on integration at Texas state universities.
Date: July 13, 2015
Creator: Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés; Bynum, Katherine & Sanford, Jaspyr
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Preserving the History of Wheelock Colored School, Wheelock, Robertson County, Texas (open access)

Preserving the History of Wheelock Colored School, Wheelock, Robertson County, Texas

Personal recollections of Estelle Adams about the history of the Wheelock Colored School in Wheelock, Texas, during the thirty years before the school was integrated in 1957.
Date: July 2015
Creator: Adams, Estelle Mitchell
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ex-Im Bank's General Statutory Authority Expires (open access)

Ex-Im Bank's General Statutory Authority Expires

This report discusses the Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im Bank), a wholly owned federal government corporation which seeks to provide direct loans, loan guarantees, and export credit insurance to: (1) support exports that the private sector is unwilling or unable to finance alone at commercially viable terms; and/or (2) counter government-backed financing offered by foreign countries through their export credit agency (ECA).
Date: July 1, 2015
Creator: Akhtar, Shayerah Ilias
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Narciso Aleman, July 2, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Narciso Aleman, July 2, 2015

Interview with Narciso Aleman, civil rights activist from Pharr, Texas. He discusses his activism and the ideologies behind the Chicano movement in South Texas.
Date: July 2, 2015
Creator: Aleman, Narciso; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Jerry Alonzo, July 11, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Jerry Alonzo, July 11, 2015

Interview with Jerry Alonzo from Laredo, Texas. He discusses his childhood and education, military service in Vietnam, his work at Southwestern Bell, the Communication Workers of America labor union, and his involvement in election campaigns.
Date: July 11, 2015
Creator: Alonzo, Gerardo; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nuestra Voz De North Texas (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 20, Ed. 1, July 2015 (open access)

Nuestra Voz De North Texas (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 20, Ed. 1, July 2015

Monthly newspaper providing news and information to the Tarrant, Dallas, and Denton County Latino communities along with advertising.
Date: July 2015
Creator: Alvarado, Felix
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Lorena Andrade, July 17, 2015 transcript

Oral History Interview with Lorena Andrade, July 17, 2015

Interview with Lorena Andrade, civil rights and labor activist from El Paso, Texas. Ms. Andrade was born in Los Angeles, California and attended the University of Minnesota, where she became involved with Chicano activism. In El Paso, she has been an advocate for labor and founded the organization La Mujer Obrera, The Working Woman, to support women affected by NAFTA.
Date: July 17, 2015
Creator: Andrade, Lorena; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
The European Union: Questions and Answers (open access)

The European Union: Questions and Answers

This report serves as a primer on the European Union (EU) and provides a brief description of U.S.-EU relations that may be of interest in the 114th Congress. The EU is a political and economic partnership that represents a unique form of cooperation among sovereign countries, comprising 28 member states, including most of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe; the group has helped to promote peace, stability, and economic prosperity throughout the European continent.
Date: July 24, 2015
Creator: Archick, Kristin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Salvador Avila, July 24, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Salvador Avila, July 24, 2015

Interview with Salvador Avila, a civil rights activist from Canutillo, Texas. Mr. Avila discusses his early life, education, career, race relations and his involvement with civil rights and community organizations in the El Paso area.
Date: July 24, 2015
Creator: Avila, Salvador; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Salvador Balcorta, July 7, 2015 (Part 1) captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Salvador Balcorta, July 7, 2015 (Part 1)

Interview with Salvador Balcorta, the CEO of Centro de Salud Familiar La Fe clinic in El Paso. Mr. Balcorta discusses his family background and education, and the founding of the La Fe clinic. This is the first of two interviews Mr. Balcorta participated in.
Date: July 23, 2015
Creator: Balcorta, Salvador; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Salvador Balcorta, July 24, 2015 (Part 2) captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Salvador Balcorta, July 24, 2015 (Part 2)

Interview with Salvador Balcorta, the CEO of Centro de Salud Familiar La Fe clinic in El Paso. Mr. Balcorta discusses his work in providing healthcare in El Paso and surrounding communities, his Chicano activism,working against gang violence, the Chicano AIDS Coalition, substandard housing and education in El Paso. This is the second of two interviews Mr. Balcorta participated in.
Date: July 24, 2015
Creator: Balcorta, Salvador; Enriquez, Sandra & Robles, David
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
OTR: On The Record (Denton, Tex.) (open access)

OTR: On The Record (Denton, Tex.)

Monthly summer entertainment magazine published by the NT Daily, a semi-weekly student newspaper from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.
Date: July 2015
Creator: Balusek, Edward
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mexico: Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking Organizations (open access)

Mexico: Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking Organizations

This report provides background on drug trafficking and organized crime inside Mexico: it identifies the major DTOs, and it examines how the organized crime "landscape" has been significantly altered by fragmentation.
Date: July 22, 2015
Creator: Beittel, June S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S.-Mexico Security Cooperation Following "El Chapo" Guzmán's Escape (open access)

U.S.-Mexico Security Cooperation Following "El Chapo" Guzmán's Escape

This report discusses the escape of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán on July 11, 2015, from a maximum security federal prison near Mexico City.
Date: July 21, 2015
Creator: Beittel, June S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Defense Spending and the Budget Control Act Limits (open access)

Defense Spending and the Budget Control Act Limits

This report discusses the Budget Control Act, which sets limits on defense spending between fiscal years 2012 and 2021 and possible measures to avoid a sequester. The current debate in Congress has centered on whether to adjust the BCA defense caps upward; move base budget spending to accounts designated for Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) that are not subject to spending limits; reduce the defense spending in the Administration's request to comply with BCA revised caps; or use some combination of these approaches.
Date: July 22, 2015
Creator: Belasco, Amy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Islamic State’s Acolytes and the Challenges They Pose to U.S. Law Enforcement: In Brief (open access)

The Islamic State’s Acolytes and the Challenges They Pose to U.S. Law Enforcement: In Brief

This report outlines the broad challenges for federal law enforcement agencies in identifying and confronting the challenges posed by the Islamic State in the United States. This report also highlights the interagency efforts taken in preempting terrorists in the screening processes, visa fraud, and stopping the radicalization of individuals.
Date: July 16, 2015
Creator: Bjelopera, Jerome P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Abortion and Family Planning-Related Provisions in U.S. Foreign Assistance Law and Policy (open access)

Abortion and Family Planning-Related Provisions in U.S. Foreign Assistance Law and Policy

This report details legislation and policies that restrict or place requirements on U.S. funding of abortion or family planning activities abroad. The level and extent of federal funding for these activities is an ongoing and controversial issue in U.S. foreign assistance and will likely continue to be a point of contention during the second session of the 114th Congress.
Date: July 5, 2015
Creator: Blanchfield, Luisa
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
U.S. Efforts to Address Global Violence Against Women (open access)

U.S. Efforts to Address Global Violence Against Women

This report briefly examines legislative issues regarding Violence against women, which includes random acts of violence as well as sustained abuse over time, can be physical, psychological, or sexual in nature.
Date: July 30, 2015
Creator: Blanchfield, Luisa
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Leonard Graphic (Leonard, Tex.), Vol. 125, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 23, 2015 (open access)

The Leonard Graphic (Leonard, Tex.), Vol. 125, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 23, 2015

Weekly newspaper from Leonard, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 23, 2015
Creator: Blevins, Betsy
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Leonard Graphic (Leonard, Tex.), Vol. 125, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 30, 2015 (open access)

The Leonard Graphic (Leonard, Tex.), Vol. 125, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 30, 2015

Weekly newspaper from Leonard, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 30, 2015
Creator: Blevins, Betsy
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Proposed Rule on Medicaid Managed Care: Frequently Asked Questions (open access)

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Proposed Rule on Medicaid Managed Care: Frequently Asked Questions

This report responds to a series of frequently asked questions (FAQs) identified to address some of the major updates included in the proposed rule. The FAQs summarize provisions such as the introduction of a minimum medical loss ratio (MLR), guidance on enrolling the long-term services and supports (LTSS) population in managed care, and network adequacy.
Date: July 15, 2015
Creator: Blom, Kirstin B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Laws Affecting the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program (open access)

Laws Affecting the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program

This report tracks legislative changes to the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program. It includes brief discussions of how Congress has changed FEHB through legislative action, including restrictions on the use of federal funds; changing the formula for determining the government's share of FEHB premiums; expanding eligibility for the program; and implementing policies that affect the relationship between Medicare and FEHB.
Date: July 22, 2015
Creator: Blom, Kirstin B. & Cornell, Ada S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 123, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 1, 2015 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 123, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 1, 2015
Creator: Bloom, David
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 124, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 2, 2015 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 124, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 2, 2015

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 2, 2015
Creator: Bloom, David
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History