Point of Order: Will Texas Finally Go to Pot?
(Audio unavailable. Click here to listen on texastribune.org.) In the latest episode of our podcast about the 86th Legislature, Evan Smith talks to state Sen. Jose Menéndez about marijuana’s bipartisan…
(Audio unavailable. Click here to listen on texastribune.org.) In the latest episode of our podcast about the 86th Legislature, Evan Smith talks to state Sen. Jose Menéndez about marijuana’s bipartisan…
From left: Rep. Eddie Rodriguez, D-Austin; Rep. Trey Martinez-Fischer, D-San Antonio; and Rep. Jim Murphy, R-Houston, listen to pubic testimony at the Ways and Means hearing on SB 2. Feb.…
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Patrick Murphy. Illustration by Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune A Texas man set for execution Thursday evening hopes a bipartisan state legislative proposal to prohibit death sentences for some convicts…
Texas Education Agency Commissioner Mike Morath. Bob Daemmrich for The Texas Tribune Preparing to ask the federal government for $1 billion in special education grants, Texas education officials have indicated…
Angela Hale is the executive director for Texas Welcomes All, a group including tourism officials and visitors bureaus that came together with the explicit goal of opposing the “bathroom bill.”…
Anti-abortion advocates at the Rally for Life march in Austin on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2018. Shelby Knowles for The Texas Tribune A Senate panel on Wednesday approved the Texas Born-Alive…
The Border Patrol is seen along the border fence between El Paso and Juarez on Sunday, February 10, 2019. Ivan Pierre Aguirre for The Texas Tribune EL PASO — Saying…
Newly-elected Harris Co. Judge Lina Hidalgo at the Harris County Administration Building in downtown Houston on Dec. 3, 2018. Annie Mulligan for The Texas Tribune A Texas county official is…
Jennifer Lambrecht holds a portrait of her deceased grandmother, Gerda Hughes, on Feb. 14, 2019 in Universal City. Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune Thousands of Texas families are waiting on…