Senate Dems Want Equal Pay Interim Study
Also, it just got easier to view the Legislature online.
Full StoryAlso, it just got easier to view the Legislature online.
Full StoryAlso, Burnam has not yet begun to fight and Villalba gets on the Straus train early.
Full StoryThis week in the Newsreel: Infighting continues between UT regents and administrators, David Dewhurst tells voters they don't know Dan Patrick, and a deadline looms for signing up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
Full StoryFor this week’s nonscientific survey of insiders in politics and government, we asked about equal pay for women and about whether women’s votes are up for grabs this election year.
Full StoryKey meetings and events for the coming week.
Full StoryWe are an important damn delegation. You know, the California members are sometimes jealous.
U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Flower Mound, on the influence of the Texas Republicans in the House. With 24 members, they are by far the largest delegation in the House Republican conference.
We have sort of code of conduct and honor in our delegation that we stick together, and Ralph’s one of our dearest members, and it’d be tragic to see him lose what could be his last election.
U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin, on the efforts of Texas House Republicans to help U.S. Rep. Ralph Hall, R-Rockwall, win re-election
I have 10 months left as a state representative and I intend to use every bit of it.
State Rep. Lon Burnam, D-Fort Worth, in a March 14 fundraising letter reported by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram's Bud Kennedy, on his intent to overturn the results of the party primary in which he lost by 111 votes to Ramon Romero Jr.
I'm going to pray for those people.
Democratic agriculture commissioner candidate Jim Hogan, on the state leaders of his party
NCAA will devote $250 million toward appealing @NLRB decision because when you have a golden goose, you don't want it learning how to speak.
Sportswriter Dave Zirin, tweeting on the National Labor Relations Board regional decision Wednesday granting Northwestern University football players the right to unionize
Up to 168,000 gallons of fuel oil spilled into Galveston Bay on Saturday, closing the Houston Ship Channel and raising fears of a major ecological disaster along the Texas Coast.
The University of Texas System dropped 2,000 heavily redacted email documents that nevertheless shed more light on the ongoing conflicts between system regents and school administrators.
Gov. Rick Perry in an interview Monday with Fox Business described restrictions on Tesla Motors from selling cars directly to consumers as "antiquated protections." But his office later said there are no plans to call a special session on the issue. Meanwhile, Tesla executives on Wednesday met secretly with San Antonio-area government officials. The city is said to be in the running for a $5 billion battery plant to be built by Tesla.
The lesser prairie chicken will be listed as a threatened species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The decision is expected to have a significant economic impact in the five states, Texas included, where the bird roams. Officials from all five states had worked together on a plan intended to stave off a listing for the bird.
A judge ordered the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to disclose its supplier of execution drugs. The state will appeal the ruling.
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Jon Burrows of Temple, Olen Underwood of Willis and Glen Whitley of Hurst were reappointed to the Texas Indigent Defense Commission by Gov. Rick Perry for terms to expire Feb. 1, 2016.
The Association of Texas Professional Educators has named Loree LeBoeuf the new director of its foundation. She worked previously as senior legal counsel at Econohomes LLC in Austin.
Ralph Hall's challenger in the CD-4 GOP runoff election, John Ratcliffe, has earned the endorsement of the Club for Growth PAC and The Madison Project.
GOP lite guv candidate Dan Patrick picked up the endorsement of the Gun Owners of America-Political Victory Fund. Patrick is attempting unseat Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst in the May 27 runoff election.
GOP attorney general candidate Ken Paxton earned endorsements from RNC committeeman Robin Armstrong and former RNC committeeman Bill Crocker. Paxton faces Dan Branch in the May 27 runoff election.
HD-10 GOP candidate John Wray picked up a couple more endorsements in his runoff contest with T.J. Fabby. The Ellis-Hill Association of Realtors and the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas both threw their support behind Wray.
Disclosure: At the time of publication, the Association of Texas Professional Educators was a corporate sponsor of The Texas Tribune. (See the full list of Tribune donors below $1,000 here.)