Sam Stockbridge
Sam Stockbridge is an award-winning reporter covering politics and the legislature. When he isn’t wonking out at the Capitol, you can find him birding or cycling around Austin.
Paxton Announces Bid For Cornyn’s Senate Seat
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday evening announced that he will seek to unseat U.S. Sen....
Harrison Bid To Oust Burrows As Speaker Fails
An attempt to remove Lubbock Republican Rep. Dustin Burrows as Texas House speaker overwhelmingly failed in a...
DOGE Guts Funding for Texas Humanities Council
Humanities Texas, the state’s humanities council, learned last week that it will have nearly two-thirds of its budget slashed as a result of its...
House Committee Passes Voucher, School Funding Bills
The House Public Education Committee on Thursday passed a pair of substitute education bills out of committee,...
Revised School Bills Would Mandate Citizenship For Vouchers
The proposed committee versions of a pair of bills dealing with vouchers and teacher pay would increase...
House Budget Reflects Priorities On Schools, Border Operations
The Texas House Appropriations Committee on Monday passed a $337.4 billion substitute version of the budget for...
Paxton Announces New Requirements To Target “Rogue” DAs
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday announced a new reporting requirement for district and county attorneys...
Walz, O’Rourke Visit To Texas Riles Ardent Trump Backer
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and former Rep. Beto O'Rourke last week drew the ire of one of...
Scudder Will Be the Next Texas Democratic Party Chair
The Texas Democratic Party’s executive committee on Saturday elected Kendall Scudder as its next party chair.
Scudder secured 65 votes in the first round of...
Superior HealthPlan CEO Fired After Committee Hearing
Superior HealthPlan CEO Mark Sanders was fired on Thursday, a day after lawmakers questioned him on his company’s surveillance of patients, journalists and lawmakers...
