2018 is set to be a busy year in Texas politics. Watch as Texas Tribune executive editor Ross Ramsey and political reporter Patrick Svitek discuss what to keep an eye on.
2017 Year in Review
A lively legislative session — and a special session — that featured fights over bathrooms. Legal battles over abortion, immigration policy and political maps. A devastating hurricane. 2017 was filled with nonstop news in Texas. Here are the highlights.
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2017 Year in Review
Analyses in the rearview mirror: Hurricane Harvey
Recovering from historic storms can take a long, long time, as the Texas Gulf Coast knows. And we’re entering an election year in which the voters will have a chance to grade incumbents on the longer-term response to Hurricane Harvey.
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2017 Year in Review
In 2017, news never stopped. Here are our most-read Texas stories this year.
This year, Texas lawmakers met for an explosive legislative session that nearly ended in blows, the governor called an ambitious special session, a hurricane ravaged the coast and scandals rocked the state’s members of Congress.
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2017 Year in Review
Bathrooms, baseball and poetry: The Best of TribTalk 2017
TribTalk is a place for opinions and editorials and even poetry (sometimes, if it’s great) written by people who are usually in the audience instead of on stage. Here are the best columns from this year.
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2017 Year in Review
The 5 Best Texas Tribune Events of 2017
From DeRay to Dawnna, here are Texas Tribune CEO Evan Smith’s favorite conversations of the year.
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2017 Year in Review
Analyses in the rearview mirror: School finance and property taxes
The end of the year is when property owners have to pay their taxes — an increasingly large bill in Texas that’s a key part of the state’s rickety school finance system. Here’s a sampling of columns tracking that debate in 2017.
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2017 Year in Review
18 days that shook the Texas congressional delegation in 2017
There has never been a year in Congress like 2017, and most there spent the last year adjusting to an erratic president and an even more volatile American public.
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2017 Year in Review
In Texas’ urban areas, leaders wrestled property taxes and pension woes
As city officials sought help overhauling pension funds and fought off lawmakers’ attempts to legislate local matters, urban Texans continued having trouble finding affordable places to live.
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2017 Year in Review
(Some of) the best Texas Tribune photos of 2017
From tumultuous sessions in the Texas Legislature to widespread devastation from Hurricane Harvey, reporters and photographers for The Texas Tribune were on scene to capture the big picture and the human details.
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2017 Year in Review
Analyses in the rearview mirror: Texas redistricting
Some of the political kids in Texas wanted a quick ruling on redistricting for Christmas, a perennial request that never seems to be granted. With just two Texas elections left in the decade, the courts are still arguing over the state’s maps.