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Loon Star State: Religion in Schools
https://www.texasobserver.org/loon-star-state-religion-schools/
Published: May 22, 2025 20:55
To see more political cartoons from Ben Sargent, visit our Loon Star State section. Find Observer political reporting here. The post Loon Star State: Religion in Schools appeared first on The Texas Observer.
Texas Set to Create State Bitcoin Reserve that Would Accept Private Donations
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-set-to-create-state-bitcoin-reserve/
Published: May 21, 2025 20:33
The State of Texas is set to get into the cryptocurrency investment game as the Texas House passed a Senate bill on Wednesday to create a “Strategic Bitcoin Reserve” that could use millions of taxpayer dollars to purchase cryptocurrency. Senate Bill 21…
Texas Already Gives Public Ed Dollars to Private Operators. Here’s How That Worked Out.
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-partnerships-sb-1882-charter-schools/
Published: May 13, 2025 12:20
At an April 2017 committee hearing in a meeting room tucked away in the Capitol’s underground extension, state Senator Paul Bettencourt, a bespectacled Houston Republican, touted a proposal of his then called Senate Bill 1882. The bill was meant to “turn…
Harrison the Huckster
https://www.texasobserver.org/brian-harrison-texas-lege-self-righteous-crusade/
Published: May 12, 2025 17:31
State Representative Brian Harrison is outraged. About what, exactly, depends on the day. On April 9, for example, his outrage stemmed from a motion on the House budget bill that passed 126-20. The motion called for moving nearly 200 amendments—including…
Will Dan Patrick’s Senate Stymie Fentanyl Test Strip Legalization (Again)?
https://www.texasobserver.org/fentanyl-test-strips-texas-legislature/
Published: May 6, 2025 13:00
On April 11, 2023, the Texas House voted 143-2 for a bill that would have legalized strips that test for the presence of the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl, only for the legislation to die without a hearing in the Senate Criminal Justice Committee.…
The High Cost of Texas’ Property Tax Cut-and-Run Politics
https://www.texasobserver.org/high-cost-property-tax-cuts-texas/
Published: May 6, 2025 12:30
Once again, the Texas Legislature is entering the final stretch of its session and, once again, Republicans’ high-profile promise to deliver property tax cuts to the landed masses still hangs in the balance. In 2023, the two chambers squabbled over…
The Crypto Racket
https://www.texasobserver.org/the-crypto-racket/
Published: May 5, 2025 13:00
Editor’s Note: This story is copublished with The Nation. Read their version here. The five members of the Navarro County Commissioners Court had rarely seen such a large audience for their Tuesday meeting as they saw in October 2024, when they weighed a…
At UT, a Day of Drag and Defiance
https://www.texasobserver.org/university-texas-students-day-of-drag-defiance/
Published: May 2, 2025 14:44
On an average school day, harried students at the University of Texas at Austin rush across Speedway to get to class, stopping only to dodge a dangerously fast Lime scooter. On Monday, however, several students made a pitstop to get their makeup done by…
The Lege’s ‘Big Government Intrusion’ into University Academics
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-lege-anti-dei-crusade-college-courses/
Published: April 24, 2025 13:59
Even at Texas Woman’s University, whose very name shows its legacy, gender studies programs face potential pushback from lawmakers. Just three years ago, Texas Woman’s University (TWU) approved a new bachelor’s degree program in Multicultural Women’s and…
It’s a Long Way to the Top (if You Wanna Oust the Pols)
https://www.texasobserver.org/its-a-long-way-to-the-top-if-you-wanna-oust-the-pols/
Published: April 23, 2025 14:11
Twenty-five years in, and the state of Texas has only elected two governors in the 21st Century, two lieutenant governors, and two attorney generals. The current governor was elected AG in 2002 to succeed the first GOP attorney general since…
Ending 30 Years of Resistance, Trump and Abbott Break the ‘People’s House’
https://www.texasobserver.org/abbott-trump-house-vouchers-pass/
Published: April 17, 2025 19:45
The morning of the Texas House vote on school vouchers Wednesday included, among other last-minute maneuvering, a phone call from President Donald Trump. “It’s one of the most important votes you’ve ever taken,” Trump told the House GOP caucus in a…