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After serving as a symbol of the pandemic housing surge, Austin, Texas, now stands at the forefront of a national real estate slowdown, with home prices and apartment rents plummeting further than anywhere else in the United States, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The city's recent downturn is a marked departure from its previous trajectory, characterized by a bustling...
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HISD Threatens Legal Action Against Houston Chronicle For Leaked Principal Warning List
Last Friday, the Houston Chronicle found that Houston ISD Superintendent Mike Miles had warned nearly...
HISD Loses Thousands Of Students After State Takeover
Since the Texas Education Agency took over Houston ISD, thousands of students have left the...
Countering The Culture Wars Panel Storms SXSW
Amid a charged moment in education, where conflicts sparked in Texas, Tennessee, and Florida are...
TEA Imposes Conservatorship On Texas’ Largest Charter School Network
The Texas Education Agency has placed the state’s largest charter school network under conservatorship following...
Abbott’s Crusade Against the ‘Rural 16’ Yields Mixed Results
Governor Greg Abbott entered the March primary with a determination to target fellow Republicans who...
Healthcare
Mindfulness Over Perfection: Selena Gomez Takes the SXSW Stage to Talk about Mental Health
In the lively setting of the Austin Convention Center at South by Southwest, a transformative mental health panel, headlined by global icon Selena Gomez, unfolded.Titled "Mindfulness Over Perfection: Getting Real On Mental Health," the...
Texas Leads In Most Rape-Related Pregnancies Since Abortion Ban
The Lone Star State added another first-place trophy to its shelf of dubious honors this week. A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association estimates that 26,313 rape-related pregnancies have occurred...
Texas Has Highest Percentage Of Uninsured Residents In The Nation
Amidst the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government implemented measures to facilitate the enrollment and retention of Medicaid for low-income Americans. However, these protective measures expired last year, resulting in a surge...
Texas No. 2 During Record-Breaking Obamacare Enrollment
For the third straight year, enrollees in the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) have broken records. Texas is, by far, the state with the most customers, new and returning.
President Joe Biden spoke...
Texas Leads Nation in Medicaid Disenrollment
During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government stepped in to make it easier for poor Americans to enroll and stay on Medicaid. Those protections sunsetted this year, and now Texas leads...
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Will TikTok Be Banned? Here’s What You Need To Know
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday that could ban TikTok. President Joe Biden said he'll sign the bill if Congress passes it, so now it's up to the Senate, but...
5 Things to Know About SACR, the Elite White Supremacist Group That Wants a...
For months, Talking Points Memo has been digging into the group known as the Society for American Civic Renewal. The SACR (referred to as “sacker” by members) is a collection of highly placed conservatives...
Air Force Employee Charged With Sharing Classified Info On Dating Site!
An employee of the U.S. Air Force thought he was chatting with a Ukrainian woman on a dating website, but it turns out he was sharing classified information with someone about Russia's war in...
Cornyn Is Running For Senate GOP Leader As MAGA Senators Plot Against Him
Senator John Cornyn has announced his candidacy to succeed Mitch McConnell as the Republican Senate leader. He is the first to officially announce his candidacy for the job, but there are two other likely...
How Would Texas Fit Into Trump’s Christian Nationalist Plan?
Former president Donald Trump will make Christian nationalism a priority should he reclaim the White House in the 2024 election. How would Texas fit into that?
The claim comes from Politico, who obtained documents from...