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‘Border Security’ Is a Financial Black Hole that Will Consume Us All

State spending on cops and tech at the Texas border has increased ninefold in a decade, now set to reach $4.6 billion over the next two years.

Texas Observer

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott hits road to tout school voucher plan

CORSICANA, Texas — In this small city southeast of Dallas, where residents are protective of their public schools, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott touted his plan to allow private school vouchers as necessary to give parents control of their children’s education.

Tribune News Service

Five states have active COVID-19 emergency orders

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Business and legislative leaders push to replace expired tax break with a new one

Business groups warned lawmakers that Texas could lose business to other states without something to replace the so-called Chapter 313 tax break, which gave some companies big breaks on school taxes.

The Texas Tribune

Newsom rescinds California's COVID-19 state of emergency, marking an end to the pandemic era

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California's COVID-19 state of emergency officially ends Tuesday, bringing a symbolic close to one of the most challenging chapters of state history and of Gov. Gavin Newsom's political career.

Los Angeles Times

As 2024 nears, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis looms large over Gov. Greg Abbott in Texas

DeSantis and Abbott often appear to be locked in an unspoken ideological arms race as they take turns leading and then following one another, enacting policies and backing bills that push both states further to the right.

The Texas Tribune

Editorial: Lawmakers must ask, why should taxpayers bail AG Ken Paxton out on this screw-up?

It sometimes seems that there is no check on Attorney General Ken Paxton’s malfeasance and ineptitude.

Tribune News Service

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Final state emergencies winding down 3 years into pandemic

California's coronavirus emergency declaration is ending

The Independent UK

Political dominoes could fall if Democrat Colin Allred takes on GOP’s Ted Cruz for Texas Senate

DALLAS — The revelation that U.S. Rep. Colin Allred is considering challenging Republican incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz is creating a political domino effect.

Tribune News Service

Trans people face 'horrifying' rhetoric at statehouses

A Little Rock pharmacist's testimony before a legislative committee about gender affirming care for minors resulted in an Arkansas lawmaker asking about her genitalia

The Independent UK

Texas teachers need raises, more training and better working conditions to fix shortages, state task force finds

The yearlong review also recommends increasing the funds schools get per student, a measure already favored by lawmakers looking how to spend a historic state budget surplus.

The Texas Tribune

Abbott's false claim about gun crimes

The majority of the state’s 19 mass shootings over the past 60 years were carried out with legally possessed guns

Salon

Texas Strikes Deal to Build Abbott’s Border Wall on Big Donor’s Ranch

The governor’s slow-moving wall scheme gets a major boost from a political ally as the state secures five miles of land for fencing.

Texas Observer

Tired of Texans running for president? 2024 may be reprieve

It’s early yet, but next year’s presidential race may feature something the political world hasn't seen in the last 50 years: no elected officials from Texas

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The Texas Tribune

Gov. Greg Abbott starts state task force on street takeovers

During a recent street racing incident, Austin residents faced long 911 wait times. City officials say they need to increase staffing for 911 call takers, but state license and background check requirements make it difficult to fill positions.

Tribune News Service

Can Texas’ public universities use diversity initiatives to hire staff? Abbott says no

Texas public universities are now at the forefront of a battle against considering diversity, equity and inclusion in hiring.

The Texas Tribune

Speaker Dade Phelan endorses Medicaid expansion for new mothers, repeal of “tampon tax” in first batch of 2023 priorities

The leader of the state House also threw his support behind bills to crack down on how companies handle private data and to protect children from “addictive algorithms” by digital companies.

The Texas Tribune

Texas Senate revives effort to make illegal voting a felony

Lawmakers lowered the penalty to a misdemeanor in 2021, but then almost immediately began discussing raising it back.

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University of Texas System pauses new diversity, equity and inclusion policies

The system leaders’ decision comes weeks after Gov. Greg Abbott ordered state agencies to stop considering diversity in hiring. Texas A&M University also recently changed its hiring practices.

The Texas Tribune

Gov. Greg Abbott says Texas will revamp economic development program after property tax incentive expires

Abbott told business leaders in Arlington on Wednesday that Texas is already suffering from the end of the tax-break program, recently losing a “massive” computer chip factory to New York.

The Texas Tribune

What you need to know about education savings accounts, the voucher-like program championed by Gov. Greg Abbott

Texas is the latest state to pitch a version of the program, which lets parents who opt out of their local school districts use tax dollars to pay for private schooling.

The Texas Tribune

Gov. Greg Abbott promises to be “heavily involved” in push for education savings accounts

In an interview with the Tribune, the governor also backed criminalizing some health care treatments for transgender kids and shrugged off the idea that he’s in a conservative policy rivalry with Ron DeSantis.

Tribune News Service

These bills could reshape Texas elections, voter fraud penalties

AUSTIN, Texas — Elections have remained a hot button issue among Democrats and Republicans amid continued concerns about election security stoked by a rise in misinformation and disinformation that arose with the election of former President Donald Trump in 2016.

Daily Mirror

Death row inmate who cut out his own eyes seeks clemency after murdering wife and kids

Andre Thomas has languished on death row after stabbing his estranged wife and their two children to death in his hometown of Sherman, Texas, US. He cut out the childrens' hearts

The Independent UK

Texas death row inmate who cut out his eyes seeks clemency citing ‘psychosis’

Attorneys for a mentally ill Texas death row prisoner, along with faith leaders and mental health professionals are working to stop his 5 April execution, saying he'll never be sufficiently competent to be put to death

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