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State budget writers strike deal on $321.3 billion two-year spending proposal

The proposal would leave billions of anticipated tax revenue untouched at a time when the state has more money coming in than lawmakers are constitutionally allowed to spend.

The Texas Tribune

Texas panel recommends impeaching state attorney general Ken Paxton

Republican-led house unanimously recommended impeaching state’s top lawyer on 20 articles including bribery and abuse of public trust

The Guardian - US

Texas has gone big with renewable energy. Why can’t it go all the way?

The biggest barriers to making Texas’ power grid 100% renewable have little to do with politics.

The Texas Tribune

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Ken Paxton dismissed House investigators as partisan Democrats. Their backgrounds suggest otherwise.

A Texas Tribune review of the investigators’ employment history, voting records and campaign donations found a lack of support for the attorney general’s claim.

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Uvalde school shooting: What we know one year later

Twenty-one people died at Robb Elementary on May 24, 2022. The mass shooting and delayed police response spurred calls for stricter gun laws.

The Texas Tribune

UT-Austin tried to hire a game theorist for its new free-enterprise think tank. He turned down the job because of fights over tenure.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick wants to eliminate tenure, but his attempts have impacted the institute he helped create.

The Texas Tribune

Editorial: New mayor, new City Council. Perfect time for needed campaign reform.

All’s fair in love, war … and campaigning. At least that’s what some political candidates think.

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Texas Senate passes revamped school funding bill in last-minute bid to implement voucher program

Texas senators have latched education savings accounts to a school funding bill in a last-ditch effort to avoid a special session. But some House members are furious at the revamped version and have vowed not to let it become law.

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Texas Tribune, Frontline and Futuro Investigates are collaborating on an Uvalde shooting documentary that airs May 30

The film, “After Uvalde: Guns, Grief and Texas Politics,” will be broadcast nationally on PBS and also available for streaming.

The Texas Tribune

As migrants move into shelters, surrounding communities respond: ‘They have value’

CHICAGO -- On a recent sunny afternoon in Chicago's Woodlawn area, more than a dozen men from Venezuela gathered in a parking lot outside a shuttered elementary school that is now a shelter for migrants, kicking a soccer ball and blaring music from cars.

Chicago Tribune

Key supporter of Texas school chaplain bill has pushed for evangelism in schools

Rocky Malloy, a self-described former drug-smuggling pirate saved by divine intervention, has led a group that promotes chaplains as a tool to proselytize to schoolchildren.

The Texas Tribune

Sam Zell dies at 81; Chicago real estate tycoon owned Tribune Co.

The billionaire, known as “the grave dancer” for picking up distressed assets, once owned the Tribune Co., which went into bankruptcy.

Chicago Sun-Times

Tribune Publishing subsidiary to buy Daily Herald’s Paddock Printing Center in Schaumburg

The Schaumburg plant will print the Tribune, Sun-Times and other papers, as well as the Daily Herald. The Tribune’s Freedom Center has been sold to make way for a Bally’s casino along the Chicago River.

Chicago Sun-Times

Houston-area chemical fire highlights gaps in Texas environmental enforcement

A fire broke out at a Deer Park Shell plant the day after a public hearing on renewing the permit for ITC, a nearby facility that caught fire in 2019, sparking a Texas Tribune/Public Health Watch investigation that documented failures in state and federal oversight.

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Austin doctors who treated trans kids leaving Dell Children’s clinic after AG Paxton announces investigation

Attorney General Ken Paxton previously announced an investigation into “potentially illegal” activity. Parents are scrambling to find transition-related care for their kids as the Legislature appears poised to ban it altogether.

The Conversation

Aneurin Bevan's writings still have lessons for contemporary politics – and far beyond the NHS

The NHS will turn 75 this year, a considerable legacy for the person responsible for establishing the service, Aneurin Bevan. But Bevan’s political career encompassed far more than this one achievement.

The Texas Tribune

Get your tickets now for the 2023 Texas Tribune Festival

Our first slate of this year’s big-name speakers is out, and we’ll have plenty to talk about with them at this year’s event.

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“Right wing death squad”: What to know about the Allen shooter’s neo-Nazi views

The shooter’s “RWDS” patch offers troubling clues about his ideology — and how it connects to views that are common among white supremacists.

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Amended bill would keep tenure at Texas public universities

A new version of Senate Bill 18 scheduled for a hearing in the House Higher Education Committee on Monday would keep faculty tenure and direct university governing boards to establish policies to grant and revoke tenure.

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Progressive causes lose big in San Antonio and El Paso charter elections

San Antonio voters rejected by wide margins an effort to decriminalize abortion and require police to issue citations rather than make arrests for some nonviolent offenses. In El Paso, an effort to wean the city from fossil fuels fared similarly poorly.

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Texas House may revise anti-diversity legislation to allow some programs to maintain grants, federal funding

A new version of Senate Bill 17 expected to be considered by the House’s Higher Education Committee on Monday would still ban DEI offices and prohibit required diversity training, but it would open the door for university boards of regents to approve such programs in certain circumstances.

The Texas Tribune

Democrats again delay Texas House debate on banning puberty blockers and hormone therapy for trans kids

Senate Bill 14 spurred protests that led to altercations with state police earlier this week. Bill supporters and opponents again showed up at the Capitol for an expected vote Friday.

Chicago Sun-Times

Bally’s clears casino hurdle, buys out Tribune lease: report

The agreement reportedly calls for Tribune Publishing to move its printing operation by July 2024, leaving behind 30 acres for the casino operator.

The Texas Tribune

At a heated public hearing, residents urge state agency to reject permit for chemical facility that burned in 2019

In Deer Park near Houston, memories of the massive ITC fire are still fresh. Residents told state environmental regulators they should reject the company’s permit renewal, but officials said the fire won’t be part of the decision.

The Texas Tribune

LGBTQ Texans decry Capitol arrests after protests against bill banning puberty blockers and hormone therapy for kids

Senate Bill 14, which spurred demonstrations earlier this week, is again scheduled for House debate Friday. Trans Texans consider it one of this year’s most consequential bills.

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