The focus on dilapidated state office buildings can't come fast enough for the Texas comptroller's office, which opened the legislative session with toilet-paper-stuffed holes in bathroom walls and is ending it with a field office's roof falling in.
State Building Woes Include Roof Collapsing
By Peggy Fikac, Austin Bureau, San Antonio Express-News
Sat, 05/23/2015 - 3:04pm
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