Uvalde’s “back-the-blue” values collide with outrage over police response to Texas’ worst school shooting
By JASON BEEFERMAN
As in many small Texas towns, law enforcement officers here eat free at local taquerias on some days and get complimentary haircuts at neighborhood salons...
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Texas Senate Democrats call for special session to raise the age to purchase guns, require universal background checks
By KATE MCGEE
The Texas Senate Democratic Caucus is urging Gov. Greg Abbott to call an emergency special legislative session to consider a variety of gun restrictions and...
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Why 18-year-olds can buy AR-15s in Texas but not handguns
By KIAH COLLIER
The fact that the gunman responsible for this week’s massacre in Uvalde was able to buy two AR-15s days after his 18th birthday highlights how...
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Alabama voters approve $85 million bond issue to fund public historical sites and state parks
By Jackie Mitchell
Alabama voters approved Amendment 1, a constitutional amendment, on May 24. Amendment 1 authorized the state to issue up to $85 million in bonds for...
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Philadelphia mayor names two new school board members
By Dale Mezzacappa .Chalkbeat
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney appointed two new members to the city’s Board of Education on Tuesday: Sarah-Ashley Andrews, a family therapist who founded a suicide-prevention...
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Greg Abbott and the policy contradiction of an anti-mandate mandate

Greg Abbott and the policy contradiction of an anti-mandate mandate

By ROSS RAMSEY on October 13, 2021

The governor of Texas is mandating against mandates — resuming the kinds of top-down restrictions on private businesses that got him in trouble with a…

A Texas state budget — minus $38.6 billion in federal stimulus money

A Texas state budget — minus $38.6 billion in federal stimulus money

By ROSS RAMSEY on July 27, 2021

There’s plenty still to play out ahead of 2022, but Greg Abbott is starting to run up the score

There’s plenty still to play out ahead of 2022, but Greg Abbott is starting to run up the score

By ROSS RAMSEY on July 13, 2021

The noisiest branch of Texas government goes into overtime

The noisiest branch of Texas government goes into overtime

By ROSS RAMSEY on July 6, 2021

The most influential non-voter in Texas

The most influential non-voter in Texas

By ROSS RAMSEY on June 24, 2021

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott feels the heat

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott feels the heat

By ROSS RAMSEY on June 18, 2021

The Texas electric grid and the improvements that didn’t come

The Texas electric grid and the improvements that didn’t come

By ROSS RAMSEY on June 9, 2021

Corporations aren’t buying what GOP leaders are selling in voting debate

Corporations aren’t buying what GOP leaders are selling in voting debate

By ROSS RAMSEY on April 5, 2021

Pandemic response tops Texas voters’ legislative priorities, poll finds

Pandemic response tops Texas voters’ legislative priorities, poll finds

By ROSS RAMSEY on March 2, 2021

Texas voters’ views shifting on abortion, pot, gambling and Confederate monuments, poll finds

Texas voters’ views shifting on abortion, pot, gambling and Confederate monuments, poll finds

By ROSS RAMSEY on March 2, 2021

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