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Hemp-derived THC Classification Battle Reaches Texas Supreme Court
While Gov. Abbott and Lt. Gov. Patrick battle over the ban, a THC ruling is looming.
Texas AG Investigates Mars Company for Deceptive Practices Over Artificial Dyes
Ken Paxton is encouraging Mars to “fulfill its 2016 pledge to get rid of these toxic ingredients.”
Texas City ISD Teacher Arrested for Online Solicitation of a Minor
John Derrick Taylor has been employed by the school district since 2018.
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Toth Challenges Crenshaw for Congressional Seat Amid Potential Redistricting Shake-Up
Mid-decade redistricting begins July 21 to fix districts the DOJ flagged as unconstitutional racial gerrymanders.
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Hood County Commissioners Tackle Bitcoin Mine Noise
Responding to residents’ pleas for help, Hood County officials have taken steps toward providing relief from noxious noise pollution generated by a bitcoin mine near Granbury owned by Marathon Digital Holdings. Research shows that sound waves like those emitted by...
Study: Legalized Gambling Comes With High Financial Risk
Following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2018, many states rushed to legalize online sports gambling. Now, the impacts of these policy decisions are starting to come into focus. A study from the University of California San Diego reveals that legalized gambling is...
US Rep. Roy Slams Biden Administration for Flying Illegal Aliens to South Texas
U.S. Rep. Chip Roy called out the Biden administration for flying hundreds of illegal aliens from California to Texas each week and for wanting to continue to send more, according to the New York Post. “It’s offensive as a Texan,” Roy (TX-21) told The Post. “We’ve...
Farm Bureau Defends Right of the Chinese Communist Party to Buy Up Texas Land
At a hearing in the Texas House, the Texas Farm Bureau defended the practice of farm land being sold to individuals and entities closely affiliated with the Communist Party of China. A measure to stop those sales passed the Texas Senate in 2023, but were blocked by...
Lubbock Defunds ‘Art Trail’ Event Over Drag Show Promoting LGBT Agenda
LUBBOCK—City Council members have cut $30,000 in funding for its monthly Art Trail event over a sexualized drag show performance accused of promoting the LGBT agenda. The First Friday Art Trail is a free, public exhibition held in the city’s downtown Cultural District...
El Paso County Asks Gov. Abbott for Millions to Cover Operation Lone Star Incarceration Costs
El Paso County is asking the State of Texas for millions in financial assistance to cover jailing costs for those arrested under Operation Lone Star. County commissioners unanimously authorized El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego to send a grant application to...
Prosper ISD Parents Say Probe of Superintendent’s Sex Abuse Cover-up ‘Far From Over’
Prosper Independent School District announced that a state agency has closed its investigation into Superintendent Holly Ferguson’s handling of a sex abuse scandal involving a district bus driver. But parents say their investigation is far from over, and Ferguson...
A Texan in Israel
Dallas-born and raised Simcha Geller is a Texan's Texan. He’s an Eagle Scout and, at 20, a devotee of both conservative politics and Republican activism. Yet, he’s now considering spending his life under a Lone Star flag that isn’t the same one with which he grew up....
Texas Taxpayers Foot the Bill for a Democrat PAC’s Voter Registration Program
Powered By People, a Democrat political action committee, has found a loophole in the Secretary of State’s website allowing it to send unlimited, unsolicited voter applications to its targets at the taxpayers' expense. In a text exchange obtained by Texas Scorecard,...