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Justice Department sues Texas over in-state tuition for students without legal residency
Texas Politics · Austin

Justice Department sues Texas over in-state tuition for students without legal residency

57% Center coverage: 197 sources
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Texas Pushes LGBTQ+ School Club Ban as Pride Month Kicks Off
Texas Politics · Texas

Texas Pushes LGBTQ+ School Club Ban as Pride Month Kicks Off

Coverage: 29 sources
Texas lawmakers have advanced legislation that bans public K-12 schools from sponsoring student clubs based on sexual orientation or gender identity, drawing sharp criticism from Democratic legislators and LGBTQ+ advocates. See the Story
Texas Bill Would Force Local Deputies to Cooperate with ICE
Donald Trump · Texas

Texas Bill Would Force Local Deputies to Cooperate with ICE

58% Center coverage: 17 sources
(NewsNation) — Sheriff’s departments throughout Texas could be forced to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement if Gov. Greg Abbott signs a bill into law that was recently approved by the state legislature. The bill mandates that departments in 238 of the state’s 254 counties enter into at least one form of a 287(g) agreement or a similar federal program, which gives deputies the authority to carry out immigration enforcement duties …See the Story

Poll: Texas Republicans Oppose SB 3

57% Center coverage: 14 sources
Majority of Texans, Regardless of Party, Reject Ban on Hemp-Based ProductsRepublican Party · TexasSee the Story

‘The House Got Rolled’: Gene Wu on the Trials of the 89th Texas Legislature

100% Left coverage: 1 sources
The job of leading the minority party in the Texas House has long consisted, at best, of harm reduction and something like emergency room triage. At worst, it amounts to frantically herding several dozen cats—many of whom can be coaxed out of their homes by the GOP House speaker’s saucers of warm milk.  Since 2009, Dems have largely wielded their collective power to elevate their preferred Republican to the House speakership as a means to minimi…Austin, Texas · AustinSee the Story

This Session’s Worst Anti-Abortion Bill Died, but Pro-Choice Advocates Aren’t Celebrating

100% Left coverage: 1 sources
For four years, maternal health experts, reproductive rights advocates, and patients who suffered under Texas’ abortion ban have pleaded for lawmakers to clarify medical emergency exceptions in the state’s abortion law, seen as the bare minimum they could do to mitigate the disaster inflicted by the harsh restrictions.  Vague exceptions coupled with severe penalties that include $100,000 in fines and up to 99 years in prison have led confused an…Abortion · AustinRead Article

Texas Quietly Downsizes Border Security Spending

100% Left coverage: 1 sources
Without any announcement or open debate, the Republican-controlled Texas Legislature passed a biennial state budget that will effectively halve the amount dedicated to its multi-billion-dollar border security operations—from a proposed $6.5 billion down to about $3.4 billion.  This marks the first time that GOP lawmakers have pulled back on their border security spending since Governor Rick Perry inaugurated state operations in the 2000s and Gov…Border Security · AustinRead Article

Amid New McCarthyism, the Alliance for Texas History Embraces Diverse Scholarship

100% Left coverage: 1 sources
Historian Nancy Baker Jones was a child when her father, who was serving in the U.S. Army in Europe, was called home in 1953 to testify at U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy’s hearings on an alleged communist spy ring at an army laboratory in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey.  During McCarthy’s four-year reactionary crusade to root out “card carrying Communists,” hundreds of government, Hollywood, and university employees were imprisoned, and thousands more …New Jersey · New JerseyRead Article

Will Texas Workers Ever Get a Break from the Summer Heat?

100% Left coverage: 1 sources
On April 15, Annie Fierro of the Workers Defense Action Fund arrived at a state House committee hearing in Austin to support a bill that sought to prevent workplace heat-related illnesses and deaths.  Fierro chose to share written testimony from Ignacio, a Houston member of Workers Defense who she said was unable to get time off to attend the hearing. For over 25 years, she explained, Ignacio had worked as a finisher for construction projects. L…Austin, Texas · AustinRead Article

The Massive Pipeline Buildout in the U.S. Is Mostly for Gas Going Overseas - Inside Climate News

100% Left coverage: 2 sources
Plans for U.S. gas pipelines could lock in a dramatic increase in fossil fuel exports and their greenhouse gas emissions, a new report finds.By Phil McKennaMore than three-quarters of new gas pipeline capacity currently under development in the U.S. would feed additional liquefied natural gas exports rather than supporting domestic energy needs, a new report concludes.Climate Change · United StatesSee the Story

Pigeon Shoots and Hitmen: New Leads in a Texas Oilman's Cold Case - bellingcat

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Bellingcat Investigator Peter Barth, who grew up in Texas, researched and reported this story in collaboration with the Texas Observer. William “Bill” Asher Richardson Jr. pulled into the driveway of his upscale Corpus Christi home late on a Sunday night at the end of summer. The wealthy Texas oilman was unloading his Winnebago RV as his wife and stepson walked inside. Their housekeeper, watching through the front window, saw them first: two men…Corpus Christi · Corpus ChristiSee the Story

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