Category: State News

Whenever the subject of Marijuana Legalization comes up, many suggest that legalizing and taxing would boost the Texas economy; often times pointing to Colorado as an example. So, KHOU 11 News in Houston took a look at the numbers and made this report:

“The Constitution’s protection of religious liberty is somehow even better than Chick-fil-A’s chicken,” Paxton wrote in a Thursday letter to San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg and the rest of the council.

The Houston Ship Channel could remain shut to regular through traffic for several more days, the Coast Guard has confirmed, trapping dozens of inbound and outbound oil and LPG tankers. Emergency crews led by the Coast Guard noticed elevated Benzene levels in the area, and even what was described as a “benzene plume” hovering above the water. This as Deer Park area residents complained of illnesses ranging from nausea to headaches to irritation and burning in the skin, eyes, nose and throat from the disaster which began on March 17. 

A petrochemical terminal is on fire at an oil storage facility in Deer Park, Texas just outside of Houston and has been raging throughout the day Sunday. City officials have warned residents to shelter in place and further advised them to close air ventilation systems in their homes and close all windows.

State Rep. Jonathan Stickland has built a bipartisan coalition of 68 Republican and 34 Democrat coauthors on legislation to preemptively ban the use of red-light cameras statewide.