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As lawmakers begin a new session, Texas mayors want to maintain control of local issues

Mayors from the state’s most populous cities presented their legislative wish list, including economic development and workforce programs, broadband infrastructure and violence prevention.

The Texas Tribune

A new bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers wants to highlight the state’s fragile water infrastructure

So far there has been an average of six boil-water notices a day across Texas in 2023.

The Texas Tribune

Judge rejects DeSantis administration’s bid to toss lawsuit over migrant flights

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A Leon County Circuit Court judge on Friday refused to dismiss a lawsuit against Ron DeSantis brought by a North Miami Beach state senator who has accused Florida’s governor of illegally using taxpayer funds to fly migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts last September.

Miami Herald

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More than 70 Texas prisoners are 3 days into a hunger strike protesting harsh solitary confinement practices

Prisoners have refused food to protest practices that have kept more than 500 people in isolation for more than a decade.

The Texas Tribune

How is the Texas Constitution amended?

The Texas State Legislature convened its 2023 regular legislative session on Jan. 10. The legislature can refer constitutional amendments, in the form of statewide ballot measures, to the ballot in odd-numbered and even-numbered years. However, Texas is one of four states with biennial legislative sessions that meet in odd-numbered years;…

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A Hot, Dry 2022 by the Numbers

Our record-breaking summer provided a preview of what’s to come.

Texas Observer

"Constitutional sheriffs" hit Texas

Some 50 Texas officials have attended trainings on the unsupported notion that sheriffs can overrule the law

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Tesla Gets New 1 Million-Square-Foot Building Outside Houston, Texas

Tesla is expanding outside of Austin. It's working on a lithium refinery near Corpus Christi and leasing a new building near Houston that may be battery-related.

InsideEVs

EPA moves away from Permian Basin air pollution crackdown

The oil industry pushed hard against the proposal to issue an ozone nonattainment designation, which would have required that companies reduce oilfield emissions.

The Texas Tribune

EPA Backs Down from Permian Air Pollution Crackdown

Oil sector advocates pushed hard against an ozone nonattainment designation, which would have required oilfield emissions reductions.

Texas Observer

Texas oil patch gears up for more growth and spending with the Permian leading the way

What a difference a few years make in the Texas oil patch.

Tribune News Service

The U.S. renames 5 places that used racist slur for a Native woman

The renamed sites are in California, North Dakota, Tennessee and Texas, and complete a yearlong process to remove the historically offensive word "squaw" from geographic names across the country.

WEKU

CBS Sports: MSU is one of five teams that could go from losing season to College Football Playoff

Michigan State is listed as one of five teams that could be the next TCU in 2023 and go from missing postseason to title contender

USA Today Sports Media Group

T-Squared: Renzo Downey will write the Tribune’s politics newsletter

Downey, who currently reports on Florida politics, covered the Texas Legislature’s 2019 session for the Austin American-Statesman.

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The fringe ideology of “constitutional sheriffs” is attracting believers within Texas law enforcement

Some 50 Texas sheriffs and numerous elected officials have attended trainings on the unsupported notion that sheriffs can single-handedly overrule state and federal law. The Texas Commission on Law Enforcement, which offered state peace officers credit for the seminars, is now investigating.

The Texas Tribune

COVID-19 upended Texas schools’ finances. Now they’re calling for a new funding system.

Districts like Pflugerville ISD, which is struggling with a $12 million deficit and weighing school closures, say the pandemic and rising inflation have eroded the value of the state’s last effort to overhaul its public education finance system.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: School choice would benefit rural students in Texas

The Texas legislature will soon consider a proposal to give families greater freedom to choose learning environments that align with their values and meet their children’s individual learning needs.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Biden’s border policy struggles reflect a deeper neglect of Latin America

EL PASO, Texas — Perhaps the most fitting sight of President Joe Biden’s recent trip to the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border was this one: He went to the less important bridge spanning the Rio Grande.

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Mark Story: For John Calipari and Kentucky, can this marriage be saved?

LEXINGTON, Ky. — To a degree that would have been unthinkable five years ago, the John Calipari coaching era at Kentucky has begun to feel like the end days of Tubby Smith’s UK coaching regime and the final seasons of Denny Crum’s coaching tenure at Louisville.

Al Jazeera

ExxonMobil predicted climate change while downplaying risk

US-based company’s own scientists accurately predicted global warming as far back as the 1970s, study says.

Tribune News Service

Gov. Abbott says migrants in ‘military style gear’ are crossing border in ‘invasion’ of Texas

WASHINGTON – Texas Gov. Greg Abbott shrugged off a rebuke for calling the surge of illegal border crossings an “invasion,” ramping up the rhetoric Thursday by warning that migrants in “military style gear” are now sneaking into Texas.

USA Today Sports Media Group

2023 NFL draft: Updated RB rankings

Draft Wire editor Luke Easterling updates his rankings of the top running back prospects in the 2023 NFL draft class

Tribune News Service

What’s next for Texas’ Beto O’Rourke? A teaching gig

Texans have speculated about Beto O’Rourke’s future since he lost the governor’s race in November. Now we have an idea.

Chicago Sun-Times

Next stop Chicago? In-N-Out burger expanding east of Texas for first time

The beloved Southern California burger chain announced plans for a new location in Tennessee in 2026 and teases more shops to follow in other states.

The Independent UK

US renames 5 places that used racist slur for a Native woman

The U.S. Department of the Interior has renamed five places in California, North Dakota, Tennessee and Texas that previously included a racist term for a Native American woman

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