"Politicians shouldn’t mess with churches or farmers, and this is a church full of farmers,” says Janey Burke of Roscoe's Champion Baptist Church, whose congregation can be counted among those outraged by Sharyland Utilities' bills. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2016/01/22/Hugh_and_Nancy_Raney_Alfalfa.jpg)
Facing a nasty fight to the finish in Iowa with Donald Trump, Ted Cruz is betting big that the best way to beat a nontraditional opponent is with tradition, going places Trump won't while building a superior get-out-the-vote operation. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2016/01/07/Cruz_in_Pocahontas_Iowa.jpg)
State Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, will remain on the primary ballot for re-election in Senate District 13, despite his plan to seek the Harris County Commissioner's seat left open when Commissioner El Franco Lee died on January 3. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2015/05/29/yxIMG_4921.jpg)
This week on The Ticket: KUT’s Ben Philpott and the Tribune's Jay Root explain the primary delegate system and revisit their dissection last summer of the Donald Trump campaign. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2015/05/12/TT-theticket_leadart-sside.png)
Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth announced Friday that it will opt out of the state's new campus carry law, making it the 21st private college to decide to continue to ban guns. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2016/01/11/CampusCarry-PencilBullets.jpg)
The upcoming GOP presidential debate in Houston has become a headache for Texas Republicans, who have witnessed it go through one shakeup after another. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2015/10/30/GOP_DEBATE_Boulder.jpg)
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are trading their first attack ads in the GOP presidential race as their rivalry reaches a new level of intensity. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2016/01/13/TedTrump.jpg)
In the crowded race for Senate District 24, the challenge candidates face is standing out to voters across a sprawling district that stretches from Abilene to the northwest suburbs of Austin to tell the difference between them. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2016/01/20/SD24.jpg)
Ted Cruz hits the trail and the airwaves in Iowa, Julián Castro goes to Iowa, too, for Hillary Clinton and new billionaire GOP donors emerge in Texas politics — all that and more in the latest issue of our subscriber-only newsletter for political insiders ($). Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2014/05/13/Trib-Plus-LeadArt-001_1.png)
In the Roundup: The U.S. Supreme Court will consider President Obama’s controversial immigration program, Gov. Greg Abbott travels to Israel and the state’s attorney general says participation on fantasy sports sites can involve illegal gambling. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/videos/012216_Still.jpg)
When it comes to gambling, state officials act like they're running a monopoly. Their actions would be familiar to any mobster protecting a numbers racket. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2013/04/23/Play-Lotto.jpg)
Bill McRaven, who is only about a year into his tenure as University of Texas System chancellor, has decided to take on a surefire controversy. He’s arguing to scrap the top 10 percent automatic admissions rule. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2016/01/21/6F6A0392.jpg)
The ideal presidential candidate has God at the core of their life and the Constitution at the center of their philosophy of government, and that candidate is not Donald Trump, writes former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/TrumpMakesFace.jpg)
Despite an $800 million appropriation that includes money to permanently station more troopers near the Rio Grande, DPS will continue borrowing officers from around the state for border security. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2016/01/21/UP9A0170.jpg)
A federal appeals court on Thursday denied a request from Texas and other states to block President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, leaving the climate change rules in place as a legal challenge winds through the courts. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2013/12/04/SmokeStack.jpg)
Texas should consider scrapping its top 10 percent automatic admissions rule for universities, which hurts the prestige of the University of Texas at Austin, UT System Chancellor Bill McRaven said in two separate public appearances this week. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2016/01/21/6F6A0410.jpg)
University of Texas System Chancellor Bill McRaven told the state's higher education oversight board Thursday that he probably should have consulted with them before buying about 100 acres for a new campus in southwest Houston. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2015/10/26/Houston_SkylineTT.jpg)
Texas schools are replacing hardcover textbooks with other resources: digital textbooks, printed worksheets and online tutorials. Some parents are finding it difficult to understand what their students are learning. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2016/01/21/IMG_5700.jpg)
Full video of my 1/21 conversation with Glenn Hegar, the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. Topics discussed: oil prices, taxes, jobs and economic incentives. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/videos/6F6A0617.jpg)
In this week's edition of the Trib+Edu newsletter: New Education Commissioner Mike Morath says Texas' future rests on success of "brown and black kids," adapting a popular video game to the classroom and an interview with Terrance Green of the University of Texas at Austin. Full Story
/https://static.texastribune.org/media/images/2014/04/17/TribPlus-EDU.jpg)