The shooting at Santa Fe High School brought immediate expressions of support and concern from statewide and national leaders, including Gov. Greg Abbott, who flew to the school Friday afternoon.
May 2018
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Texas Elections 2018
Republican runoff to replace U.S. Rep. Ted Poe turns tense amid mudslinging allegations
While little separates veteran Dan Crenshaw and state Rep. Kevin Roberts on policy, their Republican runoff has grown nasty as they argue over past Facebook posts and accusations of mudslinging. The winner is likely to end up in Congress.
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Higher Education
Former UT-Austin President Larry Faulkner named interim chancellor of UT System
Faulkner, who was president of UT-Austin from 1998 to 2006, will replace outgoing Chancellor Bill McRaven on June 1.
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Politics
Amid questions of whether ex-Congressman Blake Farenthold was hired inappropriately as lobbyist, he says, “I wasn’t involved”
Asked about a report questioning whether Farenthold’s recent hiring as a lobbyist for the Port of Port Lavaca may have violated the Texas Open Meetings Act, he said, “I don’t know anything about it.”
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State Government
Asked to propose a fix to voting rights violation, Texas offers few answers
Following a ruling last month that Texas was violating a law designed to ease the voter registration process, a federal judge ordered the state to submit a plan to fix it. Texas’ response offered few specifics.
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Texas Elections 2018
In Central Texas congressional runoffs, candidates with traditional advantages face scrappy underdogs
Two spirited runoffs are underway for the major-party nominations to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio. Joseph Kopser and Mary Wilson are vying for the Democratic nod, while the two Republicans squaring off are Matt McCall and Chip Roy.
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Politics
Analysis: Millennial Texans might be louder, but they’re not voting
In all of the attention paid to low voter turnout, this got lost: Millennial Texans made up only a small part of the electorate in this year’s Democratic and Republican primaries.
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State Government
Little-known state agency causes controversy as chief judge forces resignation
The administrative law judges who oversee disputes involving state agencies typically don’t attract much attention, but the forced departure of a judge has critics questioning whether the agency’s independence is at risk — and calling on the governor to replace her.
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Texas Elections 2018
How Democrats in Texas are trying to win over one of America’s most ethnically diverse counties
The 22nd Congressional District, which includes most of Fort Bend County, has long tilted Republican, but Democrats see an opportunity to change that by reaching out to thousands of non-voters in ethnic communities.
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State Government
Did Railroad Commissioner Christi Craddick break the law by pushing out the agency director? The attorney general can’t say.
Whether Christi Craddick violated the law last year in pushing the Texas Railroad Commission’s executive director out of her post is “not a question we can resolve,” Attorney General Ken Paxton wrote in an opinion released Thursday.
