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House Rules Debate Comes Late as GOP Seeks End to Democrat Chairs
The last time the rules were voted on this late was in 2009, the first session of former Speaker Joe Straus.
Meet the Freshmen: Keresa Richardson
A homeschooling advocate, Richardson emphasized the importance of giving parents more control over their children’s education.
Harris County Commissioners Court Attendance Sparks Debate, Hidalgo Responds
Republican Commissioner Tom Ramsey criticized Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo for missing 36 percent of meetings.
Democrat Coalition Propels Dustin Burrows to Speaker of the Texas House
More Democrats than Republicans voted for Burrows’ speakership.
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Montgomery County Commissioner to Testify Against Fellow Indicted Court Members
In an interesting turn of events for the criminal case against half of Montgomery County’s commissioners court, one of the defendants has made a deal with the prosecution to testify against the other indicted members of the court ahead of their upcoming trial. Three...
Texas Voter ID Update Unanimously Passes Senate Committee
A bill updating Texas’ photo voter ID law passed unanimously out of committee following its first public hearing on Monday and is now headed to the Senate floor. SB 5, authored by State Sen. Joan Huffman (R-Southside Place) and the entire Senate Republican caucus, was...
House Trying to Extort Conservatives and Tap Rainy Day Fund
Texas House leadership is doubling down on their plan to raid the Rainy Day Fund in order to fill in deficiencies in the budget—literally. A consequence of Texas’ part-time legislature and biennial budgeting process, lawmakers routinely need to fix differences in...
Stopping A Rail Boondoggle Before It Starts
A rider attached to the Texas Senate’s version of the 2018-2019 state budget would prohibit the Texas Department of Transportation from subsidizing high-speed rail. Property owners in a corridor from Houston to the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex have expressed concerns...
Privacy Act Passes Texas Senate
Though debate dragged on through the afternoon, the Texas Senate voted 21-10 to pass legislation to bar biological men from entering women’s bathrooms, showers, and locker rooms. Passed with unanimous support from Senate Republicans and Democrat Eddie Lucio of...
San Antonio’s Debt-Doubling Duplicity
In addition to every city council seat and the mayor’s office, voters this May will also decide on over a billion dollars in added debt to spend on various infrastructural projects around the city. Earlier this year, San Antonio City Council voted to add approximately...
Greater Houston Partnership Supports Property Tax Reform
Property tax reform in Texas has attracted some unlikely allies as of late. Both the Montgomery County Commissioners Court and the Greater Houston Partnership (GHP), an economic development corporation covering the greater Houston area, have endorsed Senate Bill 2 by...
Prosecutors’ Hypocrisy Laid Bare in Paxton Response
In a stinging response to a motion to delay his trial, Ken Paxton’s legal team have laid bare the hypocrisy of the special prosecutors on his case. Late Monday the Paxton defense team filed a response opposing a motion for continuance that was filed by the special...
Federal Court Rules Texas Congressional Maps That Were Never Used Are Invalid
A federal court ruled Friday in Texas’ six-year-long redistricting battle that the state’s congressional maps must be redrawn because some of the districts are illegal – even though the districts, drawn in 2011, were never used and were repealed and replaced in 2013....