In his pitch to attract Amazon’s second headquarters, Austin Mayor Steve Adler has asked the tech giant to see Austin’s “challenges as an opportunity.” Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings has emphasized that his city is already “easy.”
Emma Platoff
Emma Platoff was a reporter at the Tribune from 2017 to 2021, most recently covering the law and its intersection with politics. A graduate of Yale University, Emma is the former managing editor of the Yale Daily News.
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Politics
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott opposed controversial “bathroom bill,” state legislator says
According to the chairman of the Texas House committee where the bathroom bill died in 2017, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott “did not want that bill on his desk.”
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Politics
State Rep. Roland Gutierrez to seek Carlos Uresti’s seat in Texas Senate
Gutierrez is running for Texas Senate District 19, a Democratic-leaning San Antonio district that overlaps with his own and is held by a senator who was recently convicted of 11 felonies.
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Congress
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn says he has the votes to pass a gun background check bill
Cornyn had been pushing the bill since the Sutherland Springs shooting last year. He now has enough co-sponsors to avoid a filibuster.
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Texas Elections 2018
Beto O’Rourke fell short of expectations in the Texas primary. Was it because of his name?
El Paso Democratic U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke was the heavy favorite to win this week’s Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate. So why did he lose some border counties to a relative unknown?
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Texas Elections 2018
Two House Democrats say they’ll run to replace Sylvia Garcia in the Texas Senate
Houston Democrat Sylvia Garcia hasn’t yet stepped down from her Texas Senate seat after winning her congressional primary Tuesday, but Houston state Reps. Ana Hernandez and Carol Alvarado have already said they plan to run for it.
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Texas Elections 2018
In Texas House primaries, two of the three incumbents challenged by Gov. Greg Abbott survive
Of the three Republican incumbents targeted by Gov. Greg Abbott in this year’s primaries, two won victories Tuesday night. Several other open-seat races are headed to runoffs May 22.
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Environment
Federal government may fight alongside Texas in water dispute, U.S. Supreme Court rules
The ruling is an apparent victory for Texas in a legal battle that has dragged on for more than five years. The states are bickering over the distribution of water from the Rio Grande. Those allocations are laid out in the 1938 Rio Grande Compact.
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Higher Education
Nearly a year after UT stabbing, mother of slain student wants to fight knife laws
Lori Brown’s plans aren’t fully formed. But she’s determined to push for new laws in Texas that she believes will prevent stabbing sprees like the one that killed her son.
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State Government
In Texas Republican judicial primaries, do Hispanic-sounding surnames spell loss?
Hispanics rarely win seats on Texas’ two highest courts. Some experts blame the “surname challenge.”