There are now 12 Texas cities with a population of more than 100,000 that have some rules or legislation in place to protect residents or city employees based on sexual orientation or gender identity. See how those protections compare.
Alexa Ura
Alexa Ura reported for The Texas Tribune from 2013 to 2023. She covered the complex dynamics of race, ethnicity, wealth, poverty and power and how they are shaping the future of Texas and Texans, in the long and short term. Alexa started at the Tribune as a reporting intern before graduating from the University of Texas at Austin and joining the staff full time. Originally from Laredo on the Texas-Mexico border, she is a native Spanish speaker and is based in Austin.
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Updated: Comparing Nondiscrimination Protections in Texas Cities
The city of Mesquite earlier this week joined the short list of Texas cities that protect city employees from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. We’ve updated the Tribune’s comparison of nondiscrimination protections in the state.
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Demographics
Texas Suburbs Among Fastest-Growing Cities
Big Texas cities continue to add the greatest number of people, but the action is in the suburbs when it comes to rates of growth. Led by Georgetown, Texas has four of the nation’s 10 fastest-growing cities.
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Health care
Dallas Seeks Solutions After Closing of Tent City
Now that Dallas has cleared out a large homeless encampment under Interstate 45 near downtown, local advocates hope the city will step up and address its homeless problem.
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Criminal Justice
Supreme Court Sends Birth Control Case Back to Lower Courts
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sent back to lower courts a case that pits religious groups against the Obama administration over a requirement that some employers provide birth control benefits to female employees.
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Demographics
Texas Cemetery Sued Over “Whites Only” Policy
Dorothy Barrera hoped she and her late husband would eventually be together again at the San Domingo Cemetery, but she says the cemetery association refused to allow her husband’s burial because he was Hispanic.
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Demographics
State, Feds Know Valley Residents Have Eaten Toxic Fish for Decades
For more than two decades, federal and state health officials have known that residents of a poor community in the Rio Grande Valley are eating fish laced with unsafe levels of toxic chemicals, but they haven’t found a way to stop it.
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Demographics
Texas Drawing Millions Moving from Other States
Texas has become the top destination for people moving from other states, according to a report from the Office of the State Demographer. Leading the way are Californians.
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Health care
Court Ends Challenge to State’s First Legal Same-Sex Marriage License
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday tossed out Attorney General Ken Paxton’s effort to undo the union of the first gay couple to legally wed in Texas.
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Criminal Justice
Anti-Abortion Activist Wants Charges Tossed
David Daleiden, an anti-abortion activist facing criminal charges after making undercover recordings of a Houston Planned Parenthood facility, is asking a Harris County judge to dismiss his indictments.
