The Texas governor said Thursday that the 95,000 voters that the secretary of state flagged for review was never meant to be a “hard-and-fast list.”
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U.S. Sen. John Cornyn has nearly $6 million ready for his Texas re-election campaign
The state’s senior senator is taking little for granted as he seeks a fourth term.
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Texas Legislature 2019
Many see “Robin Hood” as a villain. But lawmakers rely on it to pay for schools.
Even outspoken critics of the controversial program that redistributes money among school districts, acknowledge that they need it to avoid future school-finance lawsuits.
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Texas Legislature 2019
Fall behind on your student loans? You could lose your license to work. Texas lawmakers want to change that.
Members of both parties have filed bills ending the practice of revoking occupational licenses for people behind on their student loans.
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Criminal Justice
Thirty years after the killing of a Houston police officer, Texas executes Robert Jennings
Jennings was put to death Wednesday for the 1988 murder of Elston Howard. The long sentence was complicated by constantly evolving death penalty laws.
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Immigration
Lawyer group says Trump policies have erected “invisible wall” to slow legal immigration
A national group of immigration lawyers studied federal data and found that legal immigrants are facing significantly longer wait times to process requests for visas, green cards and other documents.
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Texas Legislature 2019
State lawmakers aim to lock in funding for Texas parks, historic sites
In 1993, the Legislature passed a law that said state parks and historic sites could receive all of the money generated by a tax on the sale of sporting goods. Since then, state lawmakers have given the parks department only about 40 percent of those collections.
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TribCast
TribCast: Texas voter citizenship review, Empower Texans’ Senate media pass, the 2020 congressional battlefield
On this week’s Texas Tribune TribCast, Patrick talks to Evan, Alexa and Emma about the secretary of state questioning the citizenship of thousands of voters, the conservative group Empower Texans receiving a state Senate media credential and the early contours of the 2020 congressional battlefield in Texas.
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Politics
Former Texas Republican Party chair leaving White House to work on John Cornyn’s campaign
Steve Munisteri is headed home to help Texas’ senior U.S. senator in his 2020 re-election bid.
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Texas Legislature 2019
Despite beer and lobby ties, Speaker Dennis Bonnen sees no need for recusals or new disclosures
Bonnen, who married into a beer distributing family, says he doesn’t need to recuse himself on alcohol issues and won’t name the lobbyists who own a piece of his bank — a list that is much longer than previously reported.