Across Houston, thousands of people are receiving letters saying their homes are so damaged that they must elevate them to meet current floodplain regulations. But the cost is out of reach for many families.
March 2018
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Texas Elections 2018
Who’s on the May 22 Texas primary runoff ballots?
Who’s on the ballot in Texas for the May 22 primary runoffs? Here are all the Democrats and Republicans running for statewide, congressional and legislative offices and the State Board of Education.
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Criminal Justice
Fewer exonerations in Texas’ Harris County drove national rate lower too, study finds
For the first time in several years, Texas’ most populous county freed fewer defendants who had been wrongfully accused of drug crimes. But Texas still led the nation in exonerations last year.
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Analysis: A conniption fit disguised as a legislative study
A score-settling Texas House report on economic development policies was published Tuesday — after the elections it might have influenced, ordered up by lame-duck legislators who won’t be in Austin to see it through.
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Energy
Reports: Trump considers Rick Perry for Veterans Administration post
The current energy secretary and former Texas governor’s name is being floated as Trump mulls another major shakeup in his cabinet.
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Politics
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, a Texan, leaving Trump’s Cabinet
The Wichita Falls native’s departure comes after a year of escalating tensions between Tillerson and President Donald Trump.
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Politics
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott opposed controversial “bathroom bill,” state legislator says
According to the chairman of the Texas House committee where the bathroom bill died in 2017, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott “did not want that bill on his desk.”
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Politics
Lupe Valdez and Andrew White, Democrats vying to take on Abbott, debate about debates
With 10 weeks until the May 22 runoffs, both Democrats running to take on Gov. Greg Abbott expressed interest in participating in debates. But they appeared to differ on a timeline.
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Politics
Texan Katrina Pierson to rejoin Trump campaign as a senior adviser
President Donald Trump has asked former national campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson to rejoin the Trump Campaign as a senior adviser. Before joining Trump’s orbit in 2015, Pierson had been a fixture in Texas Tea Party politics.
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Health care
In “race to the courthouse,” lawyers urge Texas counties to sue over opioids
Local officials across Texas are hearing from lawyers who want to help them sue pharmaceutical companies over the nation’s deadly opioid crisis.