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Here’s how to vote in Texas as an out-of-state college student
| October 8, 2024
If you are an out-of-state college student and need to now how to vote in a Texas election, here is a step-by step guide.

Biden sets 10-year deadline for cities to replace lead pipes and make drinking water safer
| October 8, 2024
Flint | HEALTH | INFRASTRUCTURE | JOE BIDEN | Kamala Harris | LABOR | NATIONAL NEWS | national politics | SAFETY | STATE | WATER
A decade after the Flint water crisis raised alarms about the continuing dangers of lead in tap water, President Joe Biden is setting a 10-year deadline for cities across the nation to replace their lead pipes.

Harris wants to give working families a tax cut and raise taxes on corporations. Trump would do the opposite.
| October 8, 2024
Kamala Harris has proposed increasing the corporate tax rate, expanding the child tax credit, and cutting taxes for more than 100 million working and middle class Americans. Donald Trump, meanwhile, said he wants to permanently extend tax breaks that primarily benefited the ultra-wealthy and corporations.

Supreme Court refuses to make it easier to get emergency abortions in Texas
by Matt Hennie
| October 7, 2024
The US Supreme Court let stand an injunction barring federal guidance that said Texas hospitals must perform emergency abortions to protect the pregnant woman’s health even if they violated the state’s abortion ban.

‘We need to legalize it’: What Kamala Harris’ support means for weed in Texas
by Matt Hennie
| October 7, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris reiterated her support for legalizing weed as voters in four Texas cities consider ballot measures that would mainstream Mary Jane.