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Gov. Abbott Signs Legislation Expanding Funding For Texas Water Infrastructure
The two measures are intended to ensure Texas has enough water for the future.
General Mills Will Remove Artificial Dyes After Paxton Investigation
The company announced this week that it would discontinue use of harmful color additives in school lunches by summer 2026, expanding the ban to all of its products by 2027.
A Decade Later, State Charges Against Ken Paxton Officially Dismissed
The dismissal marks a formal end to one of the most high-profile and politically charged prosecutions in Texas history.
Texas GOP: Legislature Must Finish Work on Key Conservative Reforms
The Republican Party of Texas is calling for a special session of the state legislature on a series of unaddressed priorities.
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Parents Wake Up to ‘Woke’ Public Schools
Amid a nationwide parent movement opposing divisive public school policies rooted in critical race theory, Texas parents are rejecting local school boards’ “equity” standards and “woke” curricula they say are failing to improve students’ education while further...
The Fight to End Child Mutilation in Texas
AUSTIN — After a years-long fight to protect children in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott and other top elected officials still won’t act. The Issue At issue are gender mutilation operations. Currently in Texas, medical professionals are allowed to cut off children’s healthy...
Top Stories of 2021
Next week, Texas Scorecard will focus on the top 10 stories of 2021—as selected by readers. These will be the stories of the year that most impacted them, or that they saw as most impacting Texas. Here, though, are the top storylines of the year, as determined by page...
Texas School Officials Defend Exposing Kids to Sexually Explicit Material
UPDATED December 21 to include a statement from McKinney ISD Trustee Chad Green. As Texas parents speak out against sexually explicit books in their kids’ schools, they’re shocked to find school district officials defending the “graphic and inappropriate” materials....
Reflecting on Missed Opportunities of the Texas Legislature
As the year 2021 comes to a close, it’s important to reflect on the time that state leadership and lawmakers spent considering issues important to conservatives across Texas—and what was ultimately left unaddressed. This year, the state Legislature convened four...
United Airlines Ignores Executive Order from Abbott Banning Vaccine Mandates
Months after Gov. Greg Abbott signed an executive order purporting to ban COVID vaccine mandates of all kinds in Texas, one of the nation’s largest airlines is telling its employees it doesn’t apply to them. In an internal email to employees, shared by the Texas...
Gov. Abbott Says Biden to Blame for National Guard Vaccine Mandate
As Texas National Guard troops have faced COVID vaccine mandates for weeks, Gov. Greg Abbott says unvaccinated guardsmen who face negative consequences will “only have President Biden and his administration to blame.” Wednesday, December 15 marked the deadline for...
Republican House Speaker Skips GOP Event to Aid Quorum-Busting Democrats
Republican House Speaker Dade Phelan (R–Beaumont) bragged on social media about attending a fundraiser event with quorum-busting Democrats in the Rio Grande Valley—just one mile from where the Republican National Committee was hosting an event. “Couldn’t wrap up 2021...
Federal Judge Halts Healthcare Employee Vaccine Mandate in Texas
A federal judge in Texas has issued a preliminary injunction, stopping a new rule from the Biden administration requiring healthcare workers to receive the COVID vaccine as the case moves through the courts. The injunction came from the U.S. District Court for the...