Chip Roy — a former staffer to multiple top Texas Republicans — is looking to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio.
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Texas Elections 2018
Texas Democrats prepare for crowded, potentially competitive gubernatorial primary
Texas Democrats appear headed toward a less-than-common scenario in their decades-long bid to retake the governor’s office: a crowded, potentially competitive primary.
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The Brief: Lupe Valdez is running for governor, Net neutrality repeal worries businesses, and an impeachment attempt
Small-business owners say a possible repeal of net neutrality could be a detriment, Democrats are looking at a crowded gubernatorial primary in 2018, and U.S. Rep. Al Green is still trying to impeach Trump.
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Politics
How repealing net neutrality could hurt small Texas businesses
Net neutrality, an Obama-era policy that requires internet service providers to treat all traffic that flows through their networks equally, could be repealed next week. Some fear that repealing it would disproportionately impact small business owners.
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Analysis: Sometimes, the Texas political agenda sets itself
Between courts and scandals, football and storms, rats of the literal and figurative varieties, state leaders have lately been forced to react to outside events instead of using their offices to set their own agendas.
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Texas Elections 2018
State Rep. Gooden launches campaign for Hensarling’s congressional seat
State Rep. Lance Gooden, R-Terrell, is running to succeed U.S. Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Dallas, who announced his retirement last month.
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Texas lawmakers battle with Land Office over transparency in Alamo restoration
Lawmakers who agreed earlier this year to dedicate tens of millions of dollars to update the Alamo are now asking for greater transparency about how the money is being spent.
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Survey: Hurricane Harvey victims still struggle to find housing, pay bills
Black and Hispanic Texans, low-income people and residents of the Beaumont and Rockport areas were more likely than others to have felt the negative effects of the storm, according to a survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Episcopal Health Foundation released Tuesday.
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Criminal Justice
Texas senators discuss closing youth lockups amid sexual abuse scandal
Several state senators indicated at a Tuesday committee hearing that they would be open to closing at least some of Texas’ five remaining remote lockups for committed youth.
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Demographics
Arrests along border dipped sharply under Trump, according to federal data
Department of Homeland Security officials said on Tuesday that apprehensions of people attempting to enter the country illegally dipped to historic lows during the 2017 fiscal year.
