On the latest Agenda Texas, from KUT News and the Tribune: As another round of deadlines in the Capitol approaches, several legislative priorities are still unresolved.
Transportation
Reporting on roads, transit, infrastructure, and policy shaping travel and mobility across the state, from The Texas Tribune.
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State Government
Newsreel: Deadlines, Tax Cuts, Special Session
In the latest Texas Weekly Newsreel: With less than three weeks left in the legislative session, the deadlines are coming fast and furious, raising the stakes and prompting whispers of a special session if things don’t get finished.
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Transportation
Bill to Increase Vehicle Registration Fee Dies in House
A bill that would have increased vehicle registration fees to generate money for transportation projects met its demise in the Texas House on Thursday.
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State Government
Can They Put Humpty Together Again?
The betting here is that state finance is the closing drama of the session and that in spite of the sharper debates here at the end, that everybody goes home singing Kumbaya.
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Economy
Agenda Texas: Revisiting the Texas Miracle
On the latest Agenda Texas, from KUT News and the Tribune: President Obama’s visit to Austin on Thursday as part of a new jobs tour has again put the state’s economy in the spotlight.
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Energy
Agenda Texas: What’s Left to Do?
On the latest Agenda Texas, from KUT News and the Tribune: Water, transportation and education were priorities at the beginning of this year’s legislative session, but how much progress has been made on each?
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State Government
If the Legislature’s in Town, Bills Aren’t Dead
The legislative session is in its last month and most bills will die. But setbacks for the big stuff — water, transportation and the like — are usually temporary.
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Energy
Texas Weekly Newsreel: Money, Explosions and Deadlines
In the latest Newsreel: The House fights over whether and how to tap the Rainy Day Fund, lawmakers hold hearings on the explosion in West and Gov. Rick Perry says there is plenty of time left in this session to get things done.
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Public Education
Guest Column: Let Voters Decide on Rainy Day Spending
The best way to finance Texas’ pressing water and transportation needs — and to supplement spending on public education — is to let voters decide whether to use the state’s Rainy Day Fund.
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State Government
Plenty to Spend, and Plenty of Anxiety About It
Two years ago, lawmakers couldn’t find the money they needed to run the government they had promised their voters. Now they have the money — and a completely different set of political problems.