High Texas property taxes were an issue in the state’s 2018 elections, and you can see from their work on a new homestead exemption earlier this week that state lawmakers didn’t forget that lesson from voters.
Economy
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Texas 2022 Elections
Analysis: Texas legislators set the table for the 2022 elections
The controversial issues you’ve heard Texas lawmakers debate for most of the year aren’t going away; many of them will be argued all over again during the 2022 elections.
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Economy
UT Rio Grande Valley to offer free tuition and fees to students with family income $100,000 or less
UTRGV’s decision to offer free tuition to more students comes after more students’ families lost jobs during the pandemic.
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Coronavirus in Texas
After months of store closures and layoffs, border businesses eager to welcome back Mexican customers Nov. 8
For 19 months, business owners along the Texas-Mexico border have seen a drastic drop in customers because of COVID-19 travel restrictions. With land borders scheduled to reopen Nov. 8, they are banking on a return to pre-pandemic sales.
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Coronavirus in Texas
As Texas GOP wages war on COVID-19 mandates, lawmakers OK bill that would make companies requiring the shot vulnerable to lawsuits
Senate Bill 51 would make any entity, including hospitals, vulnerable to discrimination lawsuits if they mandate vaccinations for all employees.
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Coronavirus in Texas
This Plano family got evicted after the Texas Rent Relief program paid the wrong landlord
The state’s $1.9 billion rental assistance program, which launched during the pandemic, has helped more than 165,000 Texans. But people have “slipped through the cracks,” advocates say.
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Coronavirus in Texas
U.S. to reopen land borders with Mexico to vaccinated travelers starting in November
The borders were closed to nonessential travel in March 2020, which hurt businesses in Texas border cities that rely on Mexican shoppers.
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Pandemia 101
El difícil camino para acceder a los fondos de asistencia para el alquiler
¿Busca asistencia para pagar su renta? Esto es lo que sucede cuando se intenta acceder a los fondos de ayuda distribuidos entre ciudades y condados de Texas.
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Coronavirus in Texas
Analysis: Greg Abbott and the policy contradiction of an anti-mandate mandate
Gov. Greg Abbott’s latest executive order contradicts what he’s been saying for months about mandates and the personal choices of Texans and their businesses during the pandemic.
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Economy
Here’s what Texans need to know about the government shutdown threat in Congress
In a late-night scramble, U.S. Senate leaders circulated a continuing resolution that could prevent a federal shutdown and the furlough of some 35,000 Texans who work for the federal government.