Your afternoon reading.
The puns — slinging mud, flinging dirt — write themselves in this year's agriculture commissioner's race.
The CD-17 congressman touts his record of creating and protecting jobs in two spots airing in select media markets.
Texas air-pollution regulators today approved a crucial environmental permit for a large and controversial coal plant in Matagorda County.
A judge in Nueces County today dismissed a criminal indictment against Texas Commission on Jail Standards Executive Director Adan Muñoz, who was charged in connection with his release of information about a jailhouse suicide. Open government advocates have called the indictment outrageous.
In the shadow of a projected $21 billion budget shortfall, lawmakers told juvenile justice agencies that they must start budgeting like a cash-strapped family.
A new ad from the Bill Flores campaign spotlights incumbent Democrat Chet Edwards' "False" PolitiFact rating.
Your afternoon reading.
Secure Communities, a controversial government program that identifies immigrants in custody in local jails, is now active in every county in Texas, Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced today.
It didn't take long for politics to surface after Tuesday's shooting at the University of Texas.
The Trib was named a finalist this morning for two Online Journalism Awards — truly a top honor in our little slice of the media biz.
Your afternoon reading.
The University of Texas campus has reopened following the apparent suicide of a young man who burst into the Perry-Castañeda Library in a business suit and a face mask, wielding an AK-47, according to witness accounts. We've rounded up the best of the media coverage so far.
Not long after a gunman ran through the University of Texas campus randomly firing an AK-47 and then shot himself, an old debate resurfaced: Should concealed handguns be allowed on campus?
The Democratic Governors Association is running commercials critical of Gov. Rick Perry.
