The Senate Committee on State Affairs is meeting at 9 this morning and will consider legislation to protect doctors from wrongful birth lawsuits.
Bobby Blanchard
Bobby Blanchard joined The Texas Tribune’s audience team in 2016 and led the team from 2021 to 2023, strategizing to expand the organization’s reach and engagement across all platforms. A graduate of UT-Austin, Bobby spent his first year out of college at The Dallas Morning News as a reporting fellow, covering Texas politics and breaking news. He got his start in journalism in the poorly lit basement of The Daily Texan, followed by internships at the Houston Chronicle, KUT News and the Tribune. Born and raised in the Houston area, Bobby is a native Texan.
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The Brief: Will Texas address funding to protect kids from sex trafficking?
The issue of providing state funding to address child sex trafficking continues to be a major point of discussion in Texas.
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The Brief: Will Texas be home to America’s first high-speed rail?
A private company wants to build a 240-mile Dallas-Houston high-speed rail that could whisk Texans between the two metropolitans in 90 minutes. But the proposed project has drawn ire from some lawmakers and rural landowners.
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The Brief: Best way to improve education? Texans want to cut standardized tests
Texans who were polled rank cutting standardized tests the best way to improve public schools.
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The Brief: In poll, most Texans say “bathroom bill” isn’t an important issue
More than 50 percent of Texans say regulating bathroom use is not an important issue for the Texas Legislature.
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The Brief: How do Texans really feel about Donald Trump?
Texas Republicans like Donald Trump — a lot. More than 80 percent of Republicans surveyed in the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll approve of Trump’s work so far.
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The Brief: Two major bills head to the full Senate
The Senate State Affairs Committee advanced two major pieces of legislation Thursday: a bill that would end most union payroll deductions for public employees in the state and a resolution that would put Texas in support of a convention of states.
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Demographics
Reports: ICE officials arrest an alleged victim of domestic violence in Texas
Immigration officials arrested an El Paso woman who alleged she was a victim of domestic abuse. The tip that got her arrested may have come from her alleged abuser.
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The Brief: Ken Paxton heads back to court today
Attorney General Ken Paxton is back in court Thursday for a pretrial hearing, where prosecutors are expected to argue for a change in court venue.
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Health care
Texas lawmakers hear public testimony on abortion bills (live blog)
Texas lawmakers began this session’s abortion fights in earnest Wednesday during the first committee hearing on three abortion bills.
