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At least 25,000 people in Texas suffer homelessness. Here's what we know about Texans...
Homeless Austin residents under the Ben White bridge at Lamar Avenue in South Austin last month.
Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune
Austin leaders and state officials...
Fort Bend County's HD-28 Runoff Explained
Fort Bend County's HD-28 Runoff Explained: What is a runoff? When is the election? Who are the candidates? Find out more at Reform Austin.
Ranked Choice Voting: How to End Endless runoffs
In runoff-election happy Texas, it seems voters are losing interest in a drawn-out voting process that comprises successive runoffs where turnout numbers are abysmally...
Texas number one for human trafficking
The practice of human trafficking isn’t exclusive to far-away locales in Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, or our southern borders.
This form of slavery is prevalent...
Maternal Mortality rates in Texas still high
Chelsea Aldrich was waiting for her husband to get home with extra-spicy Thai takeout when she realized her contractions weren’t stopping. Since they’d only...
Texas’ immigration backlog could hurt Dems
Immigration is a hot button political issue and has stayed one for the past several years. Many people point out that crackdowns on undocumented...
Texas Senate Committee Looks at Vaping
Illustration by Carlos Rafael Alvarez Contreras
Texas lawmakers are fuming over vaping. They're frustrated by teenagers buying e-cigarettes.
They're furious over the lack of...
Teens and Vaping
Texas lawmakers are fuming over vaping. They’re frustrated by teenagers buying e-cigarettes.
For more info, check out Texas Senate Committee Looks at Vaping.
Texas school districts grapple with lunch debt
When a child in a public school needs a cafeteria lunch but doesn’t have funds to pay for it, the burden of lunch debt...
Dems sue Texas over ballot position law
Texas Democrats have filed suit to overturn a 35-year-old state law requiring politicians in the governor’s party to be listed first on Texas’ general...
