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The Texas Tribune covers politics and a range of policy issues that affect all Texans.
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Texas poised to ask voters to approve $3 billion to study dementia
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/17017807/texas-dementia-research-funding
Published: April 28, 2025 18:11
The measure was briefly delayed by Democrats’ efforts to block the voucher program, but eventually passed with bipartisan support.
Join us May 6 for a conversation on how Texas can attract, prepare and retain the best teachers
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/17017674/attract-prepare-retain-best-teachers-texas
Published: April 28, 2025 16:03
Our two-part conversation will focus on the critical challenges and opportunities surrounding teacher recruitment, training and retention in Texas.
Texas lawmakers want to exempt police from deadly conduct charges
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/17017345/texas-police-deadly-conduct-exempt
Published: April 28, 2025 10:00
Local prosecutors have used the charge to punish police accused of misconduct. Legislation that would prevent that is advancing through the Legislature.
Can Texas lawmakers agree on how to spend billions to save the state's water supply?
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/17017347/texas-water-crisis-legislation-debate
Published: April 28, 2025 10:00
The Texas House took its first step toward revising a priority Senate bill last week. The changes were lauded by the state’s water community.
In booming Central Texas, wastewater is polluting rivers and streams
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/17017346/texas-development-wastewater-rivers-pollution
Published: April 28, 2025 10:00
A bill in the Legislature would protect the last 21 pristine watersheds in Texas. But for years, previous attempts have been defeated by powerful homebuilders.
The Texas Tribune wins 5 top awards from Texas Managing Editors
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/17017014/texas-tribune-tme-awards
Published: April 27, 2025 20:12
Tribune journalists were honored for coverage of the Texas-Mexico border, design and photography.
Experts cast doubt on state’s report that undocumented immigrants cost Texas hospitals $122M in a month
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/17016083/texas-hospitals-undocumented-immigrants-cost
Published: April 25, 2025 23:25
Policy experts say undocumented immigrants' cost to hospitals is a small fraction of the total cost from uninsured Texans.
Texas universities say Trump administration restored immigration status of some international students
Published: April 25, 2025 23:01
More than 250 students in Texas had their status revoked in recent weeks. Despite the reversal, federal attorneys say they’re developing policies to resume terminations.
Texas House Republicans flex their might after Democrats threaten legislative priorities
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/17015049/republicans-texas-house-calendar-democrats
Published: April 25, 2025 20:14
After Republicans and Democrats fight over the budget and constitutional amendments, GOP members stake out a new battlefield.
Requiring voters to prove citizenship spurs concern that eligible Texans won’t be able to cast ballots
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/17014924/texas-voter-proof-citizenship-legislation
Published: April 25, 2025 17:25
Democrats and other critics say Texas legislation threatens to keep citizens who can’t easily access the right documents from voting.
Texas lawmakers consider barring counties from mailing unsolicited voter registration forms
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/17014768/texas-voter-registration-legislature-unsolicited
Published: April 25, 2025 13:47
Voting rights advocates worry that legislation approved by House and Senate committees could make it harder to get more people on the rolls.
Immigration crackdown: Know your rights at the U.S. border and other ports of entry
Published: April 25, 2025 10:00
What immigrants and citizens should know about federal agents’ power to question and search people at airports and the border.
Courier’s lawsuit seeks to block Texas Lottery from banning its services
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/17014399/texas-lottery-courier-ban-lawsuit
Published: April 25, 2025 01:21
Lotto.com’s suit, which was filed Thursday, comes less than a week before the state agency votes to ban the third-party services.
Private school vouchers head to Abbott’s desk to become law
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/17014273/texas-legislature-passes-vouchers-abbott
Published: April 24, 2025 21:27
The program will officially launch at the start of the 2026-27 school year.
Texas may officially recognize Gulf of America change after Senate gives first OK
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/17013973/texas-gulf-of-america-name-change
Published: April 24, 2025 20:27
Senate Bill 1717 would require the name of Gulf of Mexico to be changed in every official reference made by a state agency, resolution, rule or publication.
Texas school districts got their first A-F grades in five years. See how your school did here.
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/17013974/texas-schools-a-f-accountability-ratings
Published: April 24, 2025 19:51
The Texas Education Agency released the 2022-23 school year ratings on Thursday after a 19-month legal battle over how those ratings are calculated.
Fort Worth ISD at risk for state takeover after 2023 ratings released
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/17013975/texas-schools-accountability-ratings
Published: April 24, 2025 15:28
A Fort Worth middle school has chronically underperformed for years, qualifying the entire district for state intervention. Failing grades for districts were made public for the first time since 2019.
CPS took a Texas newborn for three weeks. Now the family is suing.
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/17013977/texas-cps-lawsuit-newborn-jackson
Published: April 24, 2025 10:00
The lawsuit says the state investigated the family without a proper hearing and determined it had “reason to believe” that the parents engaged in medical neglect.
Starbase, the SpaceX site, is likely Texas’ next city. What happens next?
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/17013976/starbase-texas-election-space-x
Published: April 24, 2025 10:00
City leaders, who will be elected in May, will have just a short window to decide what services to provide, like police or fire, and how to tax residents.
Bill to create dementia research institute approved in House, but could face $3 billion funding hurdle
Published: April 23, 2025 22:02
Some Republicans have bristled at the hefty cost of the bill, and Democrats could reject the funding for it over the school voucher dispute.
Abbott signs first bill of session into law, creating a Texas DOGE
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/17013979/texas-doge-bill-signed-abbott
Published: April 23, 2025 19:49
The first bill to reach Abbott’s desk this session creates a regulation-cutting state agency under the purview of the governor. It was passed with bipartisan supermajorities.
School districts stay quiet as lawmakers push to limit when they can sue the state
Published: April 23, 2025 10:00
School leaders have privately criticized a bill that would make it harder to contest their performance ratings in court. But they did not testify against it to avoid lawmakers’ ire.
Financial hardships shutter East Texas hospital 14 months after reopening
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/17013129/texas-rural-trinity-hospital-closes
Published: April 23, 2025 10:00
Residents in Trinity County will now have to travel 30 miles to access the closest hospital.
Texas man convicted of killing ex-classmate set to be executed
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/17013128/texas-execution-moises-mendoza
Published: April 23, 2025 10:00
Moises Mendoza was convicted of murder in 2005 for killing a Farmersville woman and later burning her body.
In act of forgiveness, woman hugs the El Paso Walmart mass shooter who killed her brother
Published: April 22, 2025 23:47
A day after the shooter pleaded guilty to killing 23 people and wounding 22 others, Yolanda Tinajero gave the judge an unusual request.
Texas may study the impact of immigration again, but focus only on costs
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/17012630/texas-undocumented-immigrants-study-senate
Published: April 22, 2025 21:59
The only time the state conducted such an assessment two decades ago, it found that undocumented Texans contributed more to the state’s economy than they cost the state.
Amended bill clarifying Texas abortion laws receives Senate panel approval
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/17012618/texas-abortion-bill-clarification
Published: April 22, 2025 21:37
The revised bill, which seeks to clarify when a doctor can perform medically necessary abortions, aims to address concerns from abortion advocates and conservative groups.
TribCast: Get out the popcorn, it’s Paxton vs. Cornyn
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/17012471/tribcast-paxton-cornyn
Published: April 22, 2025 18:29
The gang welcomes back an old friend, Patrick Svitek, to preview Texas’ biggest political throwdown in years.
Track the spread of measles in Texas
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/17012423/texas-measles-outbreak-update
Published: April 22, 2025 16:36
Texas is experiencing its largest measles outbreak in 30 years. The virus has infected more than 600 people and killed two school-aged children.
Why Texas Republicans are trying to rein in high home prices and rents
Published: April 22, 2025 10:00
There’s political urgency for Republicans to deal with housing affordability, especially as surveys find most Texans say housing costs are a top concern.
Early Texas hospital data shows millions spent in care for non-U.S. citizens
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/17011928/texas-hospitals-undocumented-patients
Published: April 22, 2025 03:01
A state employee testified Monday that tens of thousands of people in the U.S. unlawfully were treated, but it was unclear how long the data had been collected.
“A global loss”: Millions of Texans mourn the death of Pope Francis
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/17011880/texas-pope-francis-death-catholic-church
Published: April 22, 2025 00:30
Some churchgoers in the Rio Grande Valley remembered the leader of the Catholic Church as a forward-thinking figure who cared for everyone.
Texas Lottery executive director resigns as lawmakers’ scrutiny mounts
Published: April 21, 2025 22:02
The Texas Lottery Commission did not immediately clarify why Ryan Mindell chose to resign, as lawmakers have discussed abolishing the lottery outright.