Politics

Teen Leads Charge To Change Confederate Heroes Day Against Opposition

by Eva Hershaw   One hundred and fifty years after the end of the Civil War, a 13-year-old boy caused an…

9 years ago

Lawmakers Look To Gulf To Meet State Water Needs

by Eva Hershaw   The drought is ongoing, lakes and aquifers are emptying, yet people keep moving to Texas. State lawmakers…

9 years ago

House Approves Heart Exams For High School Athletes

by Ryan McCrimmon   The numbers assigned to legislative bills are usually meaningless, often reflecting nothing more than the order in…

9 years ago

Open Carry Bill Derailed On Texas House Floor

by Morgan Smith   Updated, Tuesday, 12:12 p.m.:  After a point of order was raised Tuesday over a technical error…

9 years ago

Four Reasons Why Texas Matters For Hillary Clinton

by Abby Livingston   The last Democratic presidential nominee to seriously campaign in Texas in a general election was a Clinton.…

9 years ago

Universities Try Again On Construction Funding

by Matthew Watkins After years of waiting, state universities in 2013 came agonizingly close to securing billions of dollars to pay…

9 years ago

Analysis: Lawmakers Inconsistent On Debt And Eminent Domain

by Ross Ramsey In the latest example of the Texas Legislature running in two directions at the same time, lawmakers are…

9 years ago

House Passes Border Prosecution Unit Bill

by Julián Aguilar   The Texas House on Thursday passed out the final piece of a three-part package on border…

9 years ago

Analysis: When It Comes to Tax Cuts, Does Size Matter?

by Ross Ramsey, The Texas Tribune What the Texas Legislature calls tax relief looks like chump change when you break…

9 years ago

Analysis: Two Tax Cuts, But Only One With A Sales Pitch

by Ross Ramsey With the first round of the Legislature's biennial budget dance almost complete, the Senate has made its ideas…

9 years ago

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