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Harris Co. requires higher pay in construction contracts
The Harris County Commissioners’ Court recently approved a regulation requiring all construction contractors to pay their employees a minimum of $15 per hour. The...
TCEQ’s inaction will make Texas hotter
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) is doing very little and working slowly at what little they do. Pollution output is on the...
HD-100: Five running for Eric Johnson’s old seat
Updated September 11: Paul Stafford dropped out of the HD-100 special election due to residency issues.
The passage of the filing deadline on Wednesday, Sept....
Texas House Creates Mass Violence Committee
Texas Speaker of the House Dennis Bonnen has formed a House Select Committee on Mass Violence Prevention and Community Safety.
The committee was created in...
Dan Patrick promises to stand-up and do nothing on gun control
Texas’ top lawmakers have recently found themselves between a rock and a hard place — if the rock is “trying to stop indiscriminate mass...
Whatever happened to that Dallas-Houston bullet train?
It’s been months since the Houston-Dallas bullet train was in the news, but that changed on Sept. 4 when a U.S. Department of Transportation...
Large parts of Texas are ‘contraceptive deserts’
Texas has a habit of pushing women to the edge of the conversation, but when it comes to healthcare policy the state straight up...
HD-28: Six Republicans, one Dem on Nov. ballot
The filing deadline to run in the Texas House District 28 special election was yesterday at 5 p.m. The election will be held Nov....
Top 10 Most Vulnerable Texas Republican-held Districts for 2020
With upcoming elections in 2020, all eyes are on the Texas State House. For all the talk of Texas potentially going purple, some legislative seats...
