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Pandemic May be Making Human Trafficking Worse in Houston
The Bayou City, known for its bustling medical center and oil and gas industry, is also known to many as the No. 1 city...
Houston Cancels In-Person Texas GOP Convention
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner announced Wednesday the city has canceled the in-person Texas GOP state convention scheduled to be held at the city-owned George...
Advocates Say TEA Guidelines Are Bad for Texas Teachers
The Texas Education Agency’s new guidelines for students to return to school campuses gives parents options, but some advocates for Texas teachers say that...
Texas Railroad Commission Mulls Reducing Oilfield Flaring
As Texas’ regulatory commission for the oil and gas industry conducted a rare meeting in April to consider reducing oil production due to the...
Ken Paxton Criminal Case May be Headed Back to Houston Court
A recent win for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in his criminal case has been set aside for now by the First Court of...
Texas to Benefit Substantially from New Free Trade Agreement
The new U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade pact, a replacement for the North American Free Trade Agreement, could have a positive economic impact for Texas, provided that...
Texas DPS is Now Taking Saturday Appointments for License Renewals
Did your driver’s license expire during the pandemic? If you have been waiting to renew or replace your driver’s license or state identification, you...
Opinion: TEA Insistence on STAAR Testing During Pandemic is Outrageous
In psychology, there is an important theory called Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. In a nutshell, Abraham Maslow theorized that people are motivated by five...
He Was Supposed to Be in Prison Less Than a Year. Instead, He Died...
James Allen Smith was only supposed to be at a Texas prison for a matter of months, sentenced to a drug and alcohol rehabilitation...
Texas House Democrats Launch Red to Blue Campaign
The Texas House Democratic Campaign Committee has launched what it is dubbing the 2020 Red to Blue Campaign, a new initiative to use the...
