Texas has two out LGBT candidates running for Congress and six LGBT candidates for the Texas Legislature on the ballot, a record number.
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A new report concludes that controversial foster care reforms will likely cost Texas more money.
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This week’s WTF Friday, our look at the dialectical excellence of Texas politics, focuses on Rick Perry, Greg Abbott and Ted Cruz, but also has gifs, which helps.
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At today’s meeting of the Senate Finance Committee, state Sen. Jane Nelson presided over a walk-through of a still-strained state budget.
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Next session seems set to be pretty contentious, but a new bipartisan coalition is raising hopes for comity on an important issue—criminal justice reform.
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In Senate District 4, it was tea party vs. tea party but the slightly less cranky Brandon Creighton beat Steve Toth in a lopsided victory yesterday.
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Davis and Van de Putte may want the same thing, but they have very different opponents, very different styles and very different organizations backing them.
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in Texas it is our cities that are left to seriously grapple with citizens’ most urgent needs.
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The Sunset Advisory Commission will meet next week to hear testimony on its devastating assessment of the Department of State Health Services.
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With the Texas primary runoffs behind us, several big Republican feuds have concluded and we’ve learned a little about the 2015 Legislature.
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