Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues Facebook’s Parent Company Over Use Of Facial Recognition...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Facebook’s parent company, Meta Platforms Inc., saying the technology conglomerate infringed on the state’s privacy protections by...
Federal Judge Says Houston-area Students Defying Dress Code Ban on Long Hair Can Return...
A federal judge has temporarily ordered that some Magnolia Independent School District students disciplined for violating a dress code ban on boys having long...
Texas’ New House Map Challenged in State Court, Expanding Redistricting Fight
Opening a second front in widening legal wars over redistricting, a coalition of mostly Hispanic, Democratic members of the Texas House Wednesday filed suit...
The Push To Ban Books In Texas Schools Spreads To public Libraries
When the Llano County Library shuts down for three days this week, starting Tuesday, it won’t be for the holidays.
Instead, a group of six...
Caseworkers Hampered By ’90s-Era Foster Care Software That The State Hasn’t Replaced
Texas has poured more than $100 million into the state’s aging foster care software known as IMPACT. This one 1990s-era application helps caseworkers keep...
Texas House Democrat Michelle Beckley Announces Run Against Republican U.S. Rep. Beth Van Duyne
State Rep. Michelle Beckley, one of the House Democrats who is camped out in Washington, D.C., announced Tuesday that she is challenging U.S. Rep....
Private Donations for a Texas Border Wall Have Soared to $54 Million. But It’s...
Gov. Greg Abbott's efforts to raise private funds to build a wall along the Texas-Mexico border surged in August, from around $1 million at...
21 killed at Uvalde elementary in Texas’ deadliest school shooting ever
Robb Elementary teaches second, third and fourth grade students in Uvalde, which is about 85 miles west of San Antonio. Gov. Greg Abbott said...
Texas Governor Says Most Gun Crimes Involve Illegally Owned Weapons. That’s Not True for...
Without mentioning the Uvalde mass shooting, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott last week declared school safety a priority for the current legislative session and again...
Analysis: When 1 In 8 Texas Mail Ballots Gets Trashed, That’s Vote Suppression
If you say — or write — that it’s harder to vote in Texas today than it was a year ago, or four years...
