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Ballot Brawl

Posted inState Government

Ballot Brawl

Avatar photoBy Brandi Grissom

Rio Grande Valley officials are fighting to hold a special election in November to fill a seat on the Hidalgo County Commissioners’ Court — even though the secretary of state and a district judge say they have no legal authority to do so.

Posted inState Government

Justice DeLayed

By Andy Uhler, KUT News/StateImpact Texas

The Justice Department has ended a six-year criminal probe of onetime U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Sugar Land, without filing charges. But as Andy Uhler of KUT News reports, that doesn’t mean the controversial former congressman is off the legal hook.

Posted in Public Education

Special Treatment

By Kate Ergenbright

Special education students in Texas are nearly twice as likely to be suspended as students in the general population, according to the Texas Education Agency — and though they make up just 10 percent of the overall enrollment, they account for 21 percent of expulsions.

Posted in Energy

Dust to Dust?

Avatar photoBy Kate Galbraith

Texas has the most acres of any state enrolled in the federal Conservation Reserve Program, which seeks to prevent another Dust Bowl by paying farmers to plant grass instead of crops. But the program has fallen on hard times, and its participants worry they will, too.

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