The finance primaries start next week and the special session has another week and a half to run, but the season's first skirmishes among Texas Republicans are starting to appear. (Jun 19)

After hours of emotional debate Tuesday evening, the Senate approved omnibus legislation to increase abortion restrictions in Texas. (Jun 18)

On the latest Agenda Texas, from KUT News and the Tribune: What's next for the state's only political corruption investigation unit, whose funding Gov. Rick Perry has eliminated. (Jun 18)

Your evening reading: Lehmberg calls Perry funding veto "misguided"; Senate advances transportation funding fix; Legislature fares better than Congress in new UT/TT poll (Jun 18)

UPDATED: The board of the state’s embattled Texas Windstorm Insurance Association agreed Tuesday to take steps that it says will better prepare the agency for the 2013 hurricane season and be more efficient over the long term.   (Jun 18)

Senators on Tuesday tentatively approved a resolution that aims to solve the state's transportation funding woes by diverting future revenue from the Rainy Day Fund.   (Jun 18)

For this week's nonscientific survey of insiders in politics and government, we asked about the travails of the Travis County district attorney, and about the governor's ultimatum that she resign or lose state funding for her office. (Jun 18)

Texas Democrats exercised considerable influence over the legislative process during the 2013 regular session, in contrast with their relative impotence last fall. While the November election results were unequivocally red, the legislation passed during the session was decidedly purple. (Jun 18)

Constitutional questions could plague the capital murder legislation under consideration in the current special legislative session, according to some juvenile justice advocates.   (Jun 18)

Pharmacists squeezed between the costs of drugs and the sometimes lower-than-cost reimbursements from Medicaid are looking forward to changes in managed care that will let them see behind the reimbursements and to challenge them. (Jun 18)

Texas politicians and institutions are getting much better marks from the state’s voters than the president and Congress, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.   (Jun 18)

Two legislators from Hidalgo County and two from Cameron County recall what it took to come up with a compromise on the bill to create a new university in South Texas, which Gov. Rick Perry recently signed into law. (Jun 18)

With just a week left in the special session, lawmakers are still debating legislation on redistricting, transportation, abortion and criminal justice, and the lengthy to-do list has some legislators worried that bills won't be properly vetted. (Jun 18)

A major Supreme Court ruling on Monday drew a swift retort from U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz. (Jun 18)

Citing concerns about eminent domain abuse and the potential contamination of water resources, a coalition is asking state lawmakers to conduct interim studies and hold public meetings on the issue of oil pipeline expansion. (Jun 17)

Your evening reading: Connecticut governor jabs at Perry over job-poaching trip; in new ad, Staples vows to fight liberals; House Democrat slams Perry's veto of ethics legislation (Jun 17)

A panel of House lawmakers on Monday agreed to join other state officials in calling on the federal government to send additional aid to the small town of West, which was rocked in April by a massive plant explosion. (Jun 17)

John Morton, who has overseen U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement since 2009, is resigning from his post. (Jun 17)

In a new video, Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples, a declared candidate for lieutenant governor in 2014, vows that he will fight back against progressives who want to turn tomorrow's Texas into the California or Washington, D.C., of today.  (Jun 17)

As two Texans eye a 2016 presidential bid, one has already emerged as an early front-runner among the state's Republicans. (Jun 17)