Edgar Walters, The Texas Tribune
Edgar Walters is the health and human services reporter and an associate editor for The Texas Tribune.
How would lawmakers' plan to hike sales taxes and drop property taxes affect Texans?
Texas lawmakers are expected to debate a plan this week that would raise the taxes consumers pay when they go shopping in order to...
From Property Taxes to Teacher Pay, Here's How the Texas House and Senate Compare...
Behind closed doors at the Texas Capitol, a panel of House and Senate budget writers is negotiating which public programs will receive state funding...
A Texas sales tax increase would hit poor people the hardest
Texas’ Republican leadership wants to raise the taxes that consumers pay when they go shopping in order to lower the taxes that homeowners and...
Texas reports on state government efficiency were kept secret. We're publishing them.
State-funded mental health services are only reaching 19 percent of eligible Texans. A shortage of funding for newborn screenings has contributed to delays for...
Texas House approves 2020-21 budget plan, with extra $9 billion for school finance, property...
Texas House Appropriations Chairman John Zerwas, R-Richmond, talks with House Speaker Dennis Bonnen on March 27, 2019, as the House took up the budget...
Texas House committee backs budget plan with extra $9 billion for school finance, property...
A panel of House budget writers gave initial approval Monday to a budget that would spend $115 billion in state funds, including a $9...
Texas counties removed 14 voters from the rolls in citizenship review
Long lines for the start of early voting snaked around the parking at the Metropolitan Multi-Service Center near downtown Houston on Monday, Oct. 22,...
A federal safety net funds health care for uninsured Texans. Time is running short...
To understand how the Texas health care safety net for uninsured residents works in 2019, consider the Western Hills mental health clinic in an...
