Category Archives: State News
Texas Asks A Federal Judge To Block Obamacare Nationwide
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, leading a coalition of 20 states, sued in February to end the law, arguing that after Congress gutted one of its key provisions, the entire statute must fall. California, leading a counter-coalition of 16 states and Washington D.C., argues that the entire law remains constitutional and should remain in place.
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Tropical Storm Gordon Enters Northern Gulf Coast, To Make Landfall As Hurricane Tonight
Hurricane Gordon is racing towards landfall later tonight. Forward speed has helped keep organization down and kept it at a category one. It’s projected to go into Mississippi/Louisiana and barely catch Texas. However, that still puts us on the “dirty side” and rain is probable. How hard? We’ll see.
Read moreTEXAS WINS OBAMACARE TAX LAWSUIT
Texas taxpayers will recoup over $300 million from the IRS.
Read moreTexas Will Soon Release A-F Grades For Schools. Educators Are Organizing in Opposition.
With a week to go before the state releases the first official grades for school districts, school superintendents have already begun their campaign against the system.
Read moreTexas Senate School Safety Committee Recommends Focusing on Mental Health, Avoids Gun Control
The Senate Select Committee on Violence in Schools and School Safety also wants to explore new funding to help arm certain school employees.
Read moreAs Changes Loom Over Retired Teachers’ Pensions, Retirees Look to Legislature For More Money
Retired teachers are now looking to the Texas Legislature to provide more money after a Teacher Retirement System vote Friday that could change how much retirees will see in their pension checks in the future.
Read more“Where Do We Stop?” Austin Considers Renaming City To Shed Legacy [VIDEO]
The city of Austin’s Equity Office has suggested renaming the city in a report about existing Confederate monuments that was published this week. The reason: Austin’s pro-slavery legacy.
Read moreAs More States Legalize Marijuana, Advocates See Signs Suggesting Texas May Move That Way
In Texas, both political parties now support loosening the restrictions on marijuana in their platforms. That’s just the clearest sign that both public opinion and the political calculus on pot are rapidly shifting.
Read moreTexas A&M Vet School Tells Texas Tech: This State Ain’t Big Enough For The Two of Us
To address a shortage of rural vets, Texas Tech plans to build a new vet school, which would be the second in the state. But A&M said doing so would detract state resources without solving anything.
Read moreTexas Fetal Remains Burial Trial Gets Underway
State and reproductive rights attorneys are going head to head again in federal court on Monday to argue whether Texas should require health providers to cremate or bury fetal remains. The law at the center of the case is Senate Bill 8, passed in 2017, which requires the burial or cremation of fetal remains.
Read moreTexas Schools That Want To Arm Their Employees Have Two Choices
Schools can pick between programs known as the school marshal program and the Guardian Plan. Here are four things to know about the two existing initiatives that allow school districts to arm their employees.
Read moreWhy Does Texas Have So Many Counties? A History Lesson.
Texas has 254 counties — far more than any other state. The reason? The state is huge, and its founders wanted to keep residents close to their local governments.
Read moreIs A Massive Tunnel System The Answer To Houston’s Flood Woes?
Other Texas cities have built underground channels to divert stormwater. Experts say it might not be the right way to go for Houston, but that it’s still worth exploring.
Read moreTexas Attorney General Demands School District Hand Over Controversial Human Sexuality Curriculum
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton demanded Fort Worth ISD Superintendent Kent Scribner turn over a copy of a sixth-grade health curriculum that includes lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity.
Read moreConfusion, Tension Roil Texas-Mexico Border As Federal Government Attempts To Reunify Immigrant Families
As an El Paso shelter prepared to take in undocumented immigrants separated from their children, President Trump’s tweets calling for deportations without due process drew rebukes.
Read moreTexas Just Opened the Nation’s First State-Run Gold Depository. Here’s What That Means.
Texans can now store their precious metals in a publicly backed secure vault close to home, as the United States’ first state-run gold depository opens for business in Austin. A 23,000-square-foot building — operated by the private storage company Lone Star Tangible Assets — will serve as Texas’ precious metals depository until 2019, when Lone Star is scheduled to open a facility double that size in Leander.
Read moreGov. Greg Abbott Announces School Safety Plan and Proposed Changes to Gun Laws After Santa Fe Shooting
The governor’s announcement follows three days of roundtable discussions about school safety last week at the Capitol. He said he was open to a special session to implement some of his ideas.
Read moreHurricane Season Starts June 1. Here Are Some Ways Texans Can Prepare.
Hurricane season is coming — and it can be deadly. Texas got its most recent glimpse of that during Hurricane Harvey, a storm that slammed the Gulf Coast in August and left Houston grappling with unprecedented flooding. Dozens of people died. The storm caused an estimated $200 billion in damage. Smaller towns that rely on tourism are still grappling with the aftermath. But everyone does need to be prepared; Hurricane season in Texas starts June 1.
Read moreHardline Conservatives Lose Big in Texas House Runoffs
Most of the seven Texas House Republican primary runoffs fell along familiar ideological fault lines in the Republican Party. The more moderate candidate won in most cases.
Read moreSeawater Desalination Plant Proposed for Corpus Christi Area
The proposed plant would be constructed in the city of Gregory and would be one of the first in Texas to use only seawater.
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