The Texas Legislature is trying to focus on school finance and property taxes. But flashier, more divisive political fights beckon.
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Texas Legislature 2019
TribCast: The House passes its budget — civilly
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Ayan, Emma, Cassi and Patrick about the House’s big night tackling the next biennial budget, a repeat performance by corporate opponents of last session’s “bathroom bill” and the anti-abortion legislation moving in the Capitol.
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Politics
After helping defeat the “bathroom bill” in 2017, business groups are back to oppose “discriminatory and divisive measures”
The groups are targeting two priority bills in the Texas Senate.
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Texas Legislature 2019
Dan Patrick says he won the fight over the bathroom bill, but at schools not much has changed
In 2017, Patrick pushed for the controversial measure that would have restricted the use of certain public facilities for transgender Texans, but it failed to become law.
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Politics
Texas GOP passes list of priorities that includes support for “bathroom bill” and “constitutional carry”
After a few hours of relatively mild debate, Texas Republicans approved multiple legislative priorities and backed a platform that includes more than 300 planks.
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Texas Elections 2018
How the “bathroom bill” helped push a Republican PAC to spend millions on moderates in Texas
Meet the Associated Republicans of Texas, a moderate PAC spending millions to combat hard-line conservative groups in the 2018 elections.
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Analysis: A conniption fit disguised as a legislative study
A score-settling Texas House report on economic development policies was published Tuesday — after the elections it might have influenced, ordered up by lame-duck legislators who won’t be in Austin to see it through.
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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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Split Decision for 2018 Election
Split Decision: Texas Senate candidates Phillip Huffines and Angela Paxton
In the Republican primary race for state Senate District 8, first-time candidates Phillip Huffines and Angela Paxton discuss the issues important to the North Texas district and their strong family ties in politics.
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TribCast
Where’s the “bathroom bill” in the 2018 primaries? (podcast)
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Patrick, Abby and Jay about the noticeable absence of the “bathroom bill” on the 2018 primary trail, the hottest congressional races, and a particularly timely campaign contribution received by Land Commissioner George P. Bush.