What to expect in Texas' voting rights court fights in 2018
The legal battles over the state's political maps and voter ID requirements will extend into 2018. Here's what to expect. Full Story
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Analysis: The Texas primaries are a 9-week sprint
The early Texas primaries force some quick deadlines on candidates and campaigns. Early voting begins on Feb. 20 — just seven weeks from now and two weeks before Election Day. Full Story
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What's in store for Texas politics in 2018? (video)
2018 is set to be a busy year in Texas politics. Watch as Texas Tribune executive editor Ross Ramsey and political reporter Patrick Svitek discuss what to keep an eye on. Full Story
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The Texas coastline is slowly disappearing. Here's how one community is coping.
The Lone Star State's shoreline is experiencing one of the highest rates of land loss of any coastal area in the country thanks to a combination of subsidence, sea level rise and storm surges. Full Story
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Who’s on the Texas primary ballots in 2018?
Who’s on the ballot in Texas for the March 6 primaries? Here are all the Democrats and Republicans running for statewide, congressional and legislative offices and the State Board of Education. Full Story
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Julián Castro to launch new PAC
Former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro will launch a political action committee on Tuesday that aims to support Democratic Party efforts to take control of the U.S. House and groom younger candidates. Full Story
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Analyses in the rearview mirror: Hurricane Harvey
Recovering from historic storms can take a long, long time, as the Texas Gulf Coast knows. And we’re entering an election year in which the voters will have a chance to grade incumbents on the longer-term response to Hurricane Harvey. Full Story
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Booted from the Alamo, the Daughters of the Republic of Texas kept treasured library
San Antonio celebrates its 300th anniversary in 2018. The history of the city — and of Texas — comes to life in the artwork, manuscripts and maps of a library that has recently found a new home. Full Story
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In 2017, news never stopped. Here are our most-read Texas stories this year.
This year, Texas lawmakers met for an explosive legislative session that nearly ended in blows, the governor called an ambitious special session, a hurricane ravaged the coast and scandals rocked the state's members of Congress. Full Story
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Texas’ liquor regulators have been in hot water all year. Read our coverage here.
In March, we reported on how Texas alcohol regulators spent tens of thousands of dollars to travel to resorts where liquor flowed and industry lobbyists abounded. Catch on up that story and the developments that ensued. Full Story
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![This graphic humorously references a trip that top state liquor regulators took to the National Conference of State Liquor Administrators in 2015 at a cost of more than $7,000 in taxpayer money. The illustration was created by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission during work hours on a state computer with input from top agency officials, records show. Pictured from left to right are TABC Director Sherry Cook, Licensing Director Amy Harrison, Analyst Jesse Valdez and then-TABC technology contractor Jim Andrews.]()
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Ballpark Figures: Look at the finances of some of Texas’ biggest college athletic programs
Revisit our Ballpark Figures app that breaks down the revenues and expenses for the athletic departments of the eight public Texas universities that play in the Football Bowl Subdivision — the top level of college football. Full Story
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Puzzling shapes: Travel across one gerrymandered Texas congressional district
Revisit our animated tour of Texas Congressional District 35, which wiggles its way from Austin to San Antonio, swallowing specific neighborhoods while avoiding — or splitting — others, all in the name of partisan political advantage. Full Story
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How a South Texas bureaucrat became a multimillionaire amid the rush to build a border fence
A decade ago as the federal government rushed to construct 60 miles of barrier in the Rio Grande Valley, it entrusted the chief of a little-known local agency to execute a compromise project. What it didn’t know was that he — and his family — stood to make millions from it. Full Story
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![Godfrey Garza, the former general manager of Hidalgo County Drainage District No. 1, made more than $3.5 million in commissions on a South Texas border fence project that was largely bankrolled by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The county is now suing him, claiming he should not have received a commission on the federal money — and that he should have disclosed that project contractors hired his children's company to work on the project.]()
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Federal board to reconsider asylum request of Mexican reporter and son
A Mexican reporter and his son who were on the verge of deportation earlier this month will be able to appeal their denial of an asylum claim, their lawyer confirmed on Thursday. Full Story
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Bathrooms, baseball and poetry: The Best of TribTalk 2017
TribTalk is a place for opinions and editorials and even poetry (sometimes, if it’s great) written by people who are usually in the audience instead of on stage. Here are the best columns from this year. Full Story
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Sold Out: How the crusade against sex trafficking in Texas has left child victims behind
In January, The Texas Tribune launched a series investigating how Texas leaders have publicly battled sex trafficking for more than a decade but devoted hardly any resources to helping victims. Read our coverage here. Full Story
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How renting furniture in Texas can land you in jail
Reread this investigation by the Tribune and NerdWallet into the rent-to-own industry, which has a special tool in Texas law that lets it file criminal charges when customers don't pay their debts — while other businesses have to use civil remedies. Full Story
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The 5 Best Texas Tribune Events of 2017
From DeRay to Dawnna, here are Texas Tribune CEO Evan Smith's favorite conversations of the year. Full Story
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Analyses in the rearview mirror: School finance and property taxes
The end of the year is when property owners have to pay their taxes — an increasingly large bill in Texas that’s a key part of the state’s rickety school finance system. Here’s a sampling of columns tracking that debate in 2017. Full Story
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The top Texas tales of 2017 (podcast)
On the final TribCast of 2017, Emily talks to Alexa, Neena, Jay and Edgar about some of the Trib's biggest stories of the year: the bathroom bill, Hurricane Harvey, the TABC scandal and our series on child sex trafficking. Full Story
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