{"id":211414,"date":"2012-09-07T02:26:13","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T07:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=211414"},"modified":"2012-09-08T07:47:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T12:47:51","slug":"texas-hose-speaker-visits-tyler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=211414","title":{"rendered":"Texas House Speaker Visits Tyler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=211415\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-211415\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/09\/Joe-Strauss-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Joe Strauss\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-211415\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; Texas House Speaker Joe Straus was in East Texas Thursday, fielding questions about the state from local business and medical leaders. Strauss had stops in Tyler and Marshall. The people had their concerns, especially in the area of education.<\/p>\n<p>Texas has had to make major cuts to education, but speaker Straus tells KETK that the state faced a $27 billion shortfall, and according to Straus, &#8220;We balance our budget in Texas.&#8221; But education is still the largest piece of the budget pie, and speaker Straus says it will stay that way.<\/p>\n<p>And at Texas Spine and Joint Hospital, there were questions concerning healthcare in general. Speaker Straus is a state co-chairman for presidential candidate Mitt Romney&#8217;s campaign, and he says the country can do something about that, when November comes around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Texas House Speaker Joe Straus was in East Texas Thursday, fielding questions about the state from local business and medical leaders. Strauss had stops in Tyler and Marshall. The people had their concerns, especially in the area of education. Texas has had to make major cuts to education, but speaker Straus tells KETK &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=211414\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texas House Speaker Visits Tyler<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 15:32:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211414"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211671,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211414\/revisions\/211671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}