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Spring forward? Maybe not in Texas as lawmakers mull ending daylight savings time.
| February 10, 2025
Texas lawmakers are reviving efforts to eliminate the decades-long practice of changing the clocks twice a year.
Texans are ready to puff, and pass, marijuana reform, new poll finds
| February 7, 2025
A new poll from the Hobby School of Public Affairs shows that 69% of Texans support decriminalizing weed possession.
Texas Senate passes $1B school vouchers bill to spend public funds on private schools
| February 7, 2025
The Texas Senate easily passed a controversial school voucher bill that Democrats criticized for not prioritizing low-income students.
Texas lawmakers may ban certain lessons at state colleges under expanded DEI crackdown
| February 6, 2025
This year, the Republican-controlled Texas Legislature is expected to pick up where it left off two years ago to address a perceived liberal bias at the state’s public, four-year universities.
A closer look at Greg Abbott’s Top 7 legislative priorities
| February 5, 2025
Gov. Greg Abbott laid out an ambitious legislative agenda during his State of the State address, including school vouchers, teacher pay, and property taxes.
Texas’ abortion ban has OB-GYNs working in an environment of ‘extreme fear’
| February 4, 2025
Several Texas doctors spoke to Courier Texas about how the state’s abortion bans are preventing them from properly providing health care.
VIDEO: Here’s how Republicans want to undercut vaccines in Texas
| February 3, 2025
Parents in Texas can already opt their children out of vaccines and private employers can’t mandate vaccines for their workers. But Texas Republicans aren’t satisfied. Lawmakers have proposed dozens of bills that would make it easier for parents to opt their children out of vaccinations, cast doubt on whether vaccines are effective, and give the […]
Trump orders tariffs on Mexico and Canada — Texas’ biggest trading partners
| February 3, 2025
The tariffs, which also target China, are scheduled to go into effect Tuesday. They prompted immediate efforts to retaliate. President Donald Trump made good on his threat to apply high taxes to imports from Mexico, Canada and China, a move that swiftly brought retaliation from Texas’ leading trading partners and set the stage for a […]
$1 billion school voucher bill clears first hurdle in Texas Senate
| January 31, 2025
A bill creating a $1 billion school voucher program for 100,000 Texas students is on a fast-track for approval in the state Senate.
Facing first tragedy of his presidency, Trump blames DEI, Obama for plane crash
| January 30, 2025
Sixty-seven people are presumed to be dead after a passenger plane collided Wednesday night with a US Army helicopter midair while approaching Reagan National Airport. Rather than provide measured leadership, Trump blamed DEI and Democrats for the deadly accident.
Way more Americans are getting sterilized since Roe was struck down, research finds
| January 29, 2025
A new study has found that from May to August 2022, vasectomies surged by 95% and tubal sterilizations increased by 70% among adults ages 19 to 26. Health care professionals across the country have seen this in real time.
VIDEO: Protesters show support for immigrants as ICE raids start in Texas
| January 29, 2025
President Donald Trump made good on his campaign promise to begin mass deportations once he took office. Eighty-four arrests were confirmed in North Texas on Jan. 26, sparking protests throughout the state. More immigration arrests were made in Austin, Houston, San Antonio, and the Rio Grande Valley.