{"id":306799,"date":"2014-07-08T17:48:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T22:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=306799"},"modified":"2014-07-09T14:32:51","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T19:32:51","slug":"flynn-weighs-in-on-powers-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=306799","title":{"rendered":"Flynn Weighs In on Powers Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/07\/thumb_Dan-Flynn1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/07\/thumb_Dan-Flynn1.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_Dan-Flynn\" width=\"127\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-306800\" \/><\/a>AUSTIN &#8212; If University of Texas at Austin President Bill Powers has his job after this week, he might have state lawmakers to thank &#8212; including a Republican from Van Zandt County.   Outgoing UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa issued his first statement, calling his relationship with President Powers fractured and difficult &#8212; and he still plans to move forward with his plan for the Regents to decide Powers&#8217;s fate at their Thursday meeting.   One problem is that state lawmakers are calling for Powers to stay &#8212; at least temporarily.  House Transparency Committee co-chair Dan Flynn of Van says, &#8220;We&#8217;re still investigating it, we&#8217;re still working on issues, and we would still ask them not to make any major changes.  The university has always worked with the Legislature, and I have no reason to believe that they won&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN &#8212; If University of Texas at Austin President Bill Powers has his job after this week, he might have state lawmakers to thank &#8212; including a Republican from Van Zandt County. Outgoing UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa issued his first statement, calling his relationship with President Powers fractured and difficult &#8212; and he still &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=306799\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Flynn Weighs In on Powers Controversy<\/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-306799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 11:58:27","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\/306799","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=306799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306801,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306799\/revisions\/306801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}