We're liveblogging this weekend from The Texas Tribune Festival's Environment track, which features panel discussions on the West fertilizer plant explosion, water, the future of parks and the fight over climate change. Full Story
We have liveblogged each session of The 2013 Texas Tribune Festival's Health Care track, which featured panel discussions on the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, new developments coming out of Texas, and abortion and women's health. Full Story
We're liveblogging this weekend from The Texas Tribune Festival's Criminal Justice track, which includes panels on guilt and innocence, juvenile justice, guns, and a one-on-one conversation with Attorney General Greg Abbott. Full Story
We have liveblogged each of the sessions in The 2013 Texas Tribune Festival's Higher Education track. Sessions included panel discussions on the future of higher education in the state, what's happening at non-flagship universities, governance and the role of regents, and the fight over paying student-athletes. Full Story
We have liveblogged each of the sessions from The 2013 Texas Tribune Festival's Public Education track, which featured panel discussions on early childhood education, charter schools, innovations in teaching and public education reform. Full Story
We have liveblogged each of the sessions from The 2013 Texas Tribune Festival's Immigration track. The sessions included panels on immigration reform, Latinos and the Republican Party, securing the border, and the Voting Rights Act. Full Story
State Rep. David Simpson, R-Longview, is not a member of the House Select Committee on Transparency in State Agency Operations, but he attended its last meeting — and was bothered by what he saw. Full Story
In honor of the book U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz read during his more than 21-hour speech in opposition to Obamacare, we begin our weekly news-inspired playlist with "Green Eggs and Ham" by the original Broadway cast of Seussical the Musical. Full Story
In this edition of the Texas Weekly Newsreel: U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz talks and talks, state Rep. Bill Callegari won't seek another term, Judge Ken Anderson resigns and a poetry reading. Full Story
At the 2013 Texas Tribune Festival, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz reacted to news of the first official contact between the U.S. and Iranian governments since 1979. Full Story
Aaronson on health insurance rates in Texas, Aguilar on the next chapter of an El Paso political fight, Grissom reports on the latest fallout from a wrongful murder conviction, Hamilton on freelance coach recruiting at the University of Texas, MacLaggan reports some unexpected census numbers, Malewitz explores a perennial disconnect between voters and regulators, KUT’s Philpott on what a government shutdown would mean for Texas, Rocha visits West to check on rebuilding after a fertilizer plant explosion, Satija on a bird that has Texas ranchers grousing and E. Smith’s TribLive interview on the state water plan: The best of our best for the week of Sept. 23-27, 2013. Full Story
Your evening reading: as Senate passes budget bill, poll shows Cruz leading 2016 GOP field; Medina open to gubernatorial bid; suit filed over Texas abortion law Full Story
Former gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina, running as a Republican this year for comptroller, said wealthy donors are encouraging her to run instead for governor — as an independent. Full Story
The Texas Association of Business, in a slap at gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott, has endorsed the merger of American Airlines and US Airways. As attorney general, Abbott has joined with the U.S. Justice Department in opposing the merger. Full Story
Abortion rights advocates filed a lawsuit in federal court Friday seeking to block implementation of strict new regulations on the procedure in Texas. Full Story
An odd-looking grouse with an intricate mating dance is at the center of an intense battle over wildlife conservation among energy companies, the federal government, Texas officials and environmental advocates. Full Story
Our livestream of Sen. Wendy Davis' abortion filibuster made for an incredible night of television. Today we're launching a Kickstarter campaign to make live, unfiltered video the norm in Texas politics. Full Story
A push led by U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz to block a funding bill has, at least temporarily, raised the odds of a government shutdown. Though Texans would lose some services immediately, the state would not likely feel the effects of a shutdown right away. Full Story