Angela Paxton, a guidance counselor and the wife of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, is considering a run for state Senate, according to people familiar with her thinking.
August 2017
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State Government
Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller criticizes Six Flags’ removal of Confederate flag
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller is furious with the Six Flags amusement park chain over its decision to take down the Confederate flag and four others that had flown over the park.
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Criminal Justice
Texas has more than 180 public symbols of the Confederacy. Explore them here.
Texas has more than 180 public symbols of the Confederacy, with dozens of monuments dedicated during or after the Civil Rights era.
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The Brief: Debate over Confederate monuments continues to ricochet across Texas
Following an overnight decision by the University of Texas at Austin to remove three confederate statues from campus grounds, reactions from Texas lawmakers were mixed.
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Texas state workers fear fallout from changing math on pensions
The Employees Retirement System of Texas is considering lowering its earnings assumption for the $26 billion trust fund. Labor advocates fear the move would push lawmakers to cut benefits or require current workers to chip in more.
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Colonias on the border struggle with decades-old water issues
All along the U.S.-Mexico border, about 840,000 mostly low-income, immigrant Latinos have settled in colonias – cheap plots of land outside city limits without basic infrastructure such as water and sewage systems, electricity and paved roads.
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Economy
El Paso City Council votes down city ID program
El Paso Mayor Dee Margo said he didn’t want the city to be labeled a “sanctuary” jurisdiction after casting the deciding vote against funding a municipal ID card Monday.
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Criminal Justice
Court halts execution of convicted child killer who claims intellectual disability
A man convicted in the sexual assault and murder of an 11-year-old girl was set to die next Wednesday. But the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stopped his execution amid claims of intellectual disability.
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Higher Education
UT-Austin removes Confederate statues in the middle of the night
In a surprise move, workers at the University of Texas at Austin removed multiple Confederate statues from a prominent grass mall on campus late Sunday night.
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Higher Education
Texas leaders offer mixed responses to UT-Austin’s late-night removal of Confederate statues
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick criticized the overnight removal of several Confederate statues from the University of Texas at Austin’s campus while U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz called the decision “the university’s prerogative.”