Governor Abbott's goals, Tenet's overseas solution, changes at The News: Your Monday morning roundup

Good Morning! Here is a look at the top headlines of the day.  [Morning roundup]( 01/14/2019 By Todd Davis Good morning! Here is a look at the top headlines as we start the day. 🌤 Weather: Partly cloudy and cool with a high of 49. 🔎 Prefer the online view? It's [her]( Gov. Greg Abbott, shown at the Governor's Mansion on the Legislature's opening day Tuesday, said voters are demanding improvements to how the state funds public schools and restraints on increases in property taxes. (Ashley Landis / Staff Photographer) POLITICS [Abbott says lawmakers must limit property tax hikes, fix Texas school funding]( As he prepares to be sworn in for a second term Tuesday, Gov. Greg Abbott is focused intently on two big goals — restraining property tax increases and improving the way Texas funds its public schools. Abbott acknowledges that he and other newly re-elected Republicans who control the Texas Capitol will be trying to thread a political needle this session: Yes, the state needs to ramp up its financial contributions to schools to ease upward pressure on Texas homeowners' and businesses' property-tax bills, they concede. Yet to keep faith with voters and conservative principles, state leaders and lawmakers must insist that much of the new money flow through "outcomes-based strategies" that prod schools to improve, [the Republican governor said](. Also: [Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz]( joined others in his party Sunday morning in denouncing Iowa Representative Steve King's comments. Commentary: [A you-ain't-seen-nothin'-yet chill]( is blowing through Washington with impeachment talk. ADVERTISEMENT CRIME [Who ya gonna call? Dallas police response times slower again in 2018]( Vittor Strausz Jardim doesn’t remember how his assault happened, but he can’t forget how he felt the Dallas Police Department treated him after he was attacked after a soccer game. After Strausz Jardim left an intense indoor soccer match in late October, a man hit him in the jaw so hard he blacked out, broke his jaw and broke some of his teeth. A witness and Strausz Jardim called 911 three times within one hour, according to recordings. Police didn’t show up. "I felt powerless and very vulnerable," he said. [According to police statistics, the department’s responses to calls like Strausz Jardim’s were slower in 2018 than in the previous two years](. Also: A Red Bird father killed a toddler and injured his wife in stabbing attack, [police say](. And: [A Texas Walmart banned a woman]( accused of drinking wine from a Pringles can while riding an electric cart. HEALTH CARE [Offshoring over 1,000 health care jobs? That’s coming at Dallas-based Tenet]( Business columnist Mitchell Schnurman writes: Tenet Healthcare, one of the country’s largest for-profit hospital systems, has a new plan to accelerate its turnaround: [Send a bunch of jobs out of the country](. At an investor conference last week and during an interview in Dallas, officials said the company is looking "aggressively" at offshoring jobs. And the action won’t be limited to Conifer, its revenue billing operation in Frisco, which would seem a prime target. "We’ll look at aggressively doing that across the whole enterprise," CEO Ronald Rittenmeyer said at Tenet headquarters in downtown Dallas. Commentary: [Uninsured Texans must cobble together healthcare]( and it's little wonder when people end up in the ER. EDITORS' PICKS - Commentary: A look at how [domestic abusers use household finances]( to trap their victims. - They should know: [CEOs at D-FW's Top 100 Places to Work]( offer some of their leadership secrets. - Commentary: [If the Cowboys are keeping Jason Garrett]( the least he can do is quit coaching like it's 2016. (Tom Fox / Staff Photographer) FINALLY [We hear you, and we're making changes to your Dallas Morning News]( Grant Moise writes: In my 10 months as publisher of The Dallas Morning News, my team and I have spent many hours listening to readers to make sure we understand what our community wants from us. Along with Editor Mike Wilson and other senior leaders, I met with heads of universities, health care leaders, CEOs of our region's top companies, religious leaders, arts leaders, some of our greatest philanthropic stewards, and most important, our subscribers. So, what are we going to do with what you told us? 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