Have Abbott And Phelan Forged An Unlikely Partnership For Special Sessions?
Governor Greg Abbott's priorities of property tax cuts and school vouchers faced a roadblock at the end of this year's regular legislative session. However,...
School Finance and Voucher Bills: Debate Postponed, What’s Next?
Lawmakers were set to debate major education policies, including school finance reforms and a school choice program,...
Supreme Court DACA Ruling Does Not End Fight in Texas
Reaction in Texas to Thursday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling blocking President Donald Trump’s attempt to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program appears...
More Than 800 Bills Already Filed For 2023 Texas Legislative Session
The gavel doesn’t drop to open the 2023 Texas legislative session until Jan. 10, but state lawmakers are already giving us an indication of...
Will Legislators Stand For Public Education Or Privatize Taxpayer Dollars?
Governor Greg Abbott has made it clear that voucher-like legislation will pass, be it “the hard way or the easy way.” However, as much...
Texas Legislature Targeting Harris County With Voter Laws
Harris County is home to Houston and the largest concentration of Democratic voters in Texas. The legislature has only one week left in their...
Here’s What We Know About the July 8th Special Session
Update July 7 9:10AM: Abbott releases proclamation with 11 items for the first special session.
With the special session just around the corner and...
Texas House Facing a Crisis of Legitimacy
Harvey Kronberg of the widely-respected Quorum Report today published a column criticizing the corruption of the legislative process in the Texas House of Representatives....
U.S. Supreme Court Allows Inmate To Sue Prison Officers After He Was Forced To...
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that a Texas psychiatric prison inmate left for days in cells covered in either feces or sewage can...
Lyin’ Ted Cruises to Cancun, Sparking Outrage Across Texas
After telling Texans during a Monday radio interview from Washington to “just stay home,” Ted Cruz bolted for the balmy climes of Cancun, Mexico...
