Lawmakers started filing bills this week for the 2025 legislative ...
Nov 13, 2024 · This week opened the gates for lawmakers to file bills for the 2025 legislation session, which starts in January. By Tuesday, lawmakers had filed over 1,500 bills, and those will continue to flow in until the March 14 deadline. Many more bills are filed than pass both chambers — last session only about 15% of bills passed into law.
Early voting in Texas is underway. Here is what you need to know
Oct 21, 2024 · From The Texas Newsroom:. Election day is fewer than two weeks away, and while some voters might still be on the fence about whom they’ll cast a ballot for in local, state and national elections, they have another decision to make: Vote early or vote on Tuesday, Nov. 5.
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December 18, 2024 How Austin ISD is lowering its chronic absenteeism rate which more than doubled during the pandemic. Chronic absenteeism leads to worse student outcomes and fewer state dollars for Texas school districts.
Potential lithium boom simmers in East Texas
Feb 29, 2024 · The lithium-ion battery is one of the inventions that makes the modern world possible. It’s in your cell phone, your laptop, maybe even your car. The device’s essential element – lithium – is therefore in very high demand.. Right now most of the world’s lithium production occurs in Australia and Chile.
Fact-check: Is Venezuela sending prisoners to the US southern …
Oct 12, 2022 · From PolitiFact:. Republicans have praised Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ recent decision to use taxpayer money to fly two planes of Venezuelan asylum seekers from Texas to Florida to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts.. Meanwhile, in Congress, some GOP lawmakers have raised flags about Venezuelan immigrants at the southern border, citing an alleged Department of Homeland Security report saying ...
Texas has open primaries. Here’s what that means and what you …
Feb 20, 2024 · From The Texas Newsroom:. While it may seem like the 2024 election cycle has already been going on forever, the first round of voting for it is just now underway. Early voting for primaries in Texas runs through March 1, and primary Election Day is March 5.
Chairman of the Texas Democrats resigns after election losses ...
Nov 8, 2024 · Gilberto Hinojosa, 72, served as the party’s chairman for more than a decade. He resigned after telling The Texas Newsroom that immigration and transgender issues contributed to Democrats’ 2024 election losses.
Pregnant in Texas? Here’s what you need to know to ... - Texas …
Mar 10, 2023 · Texas has the highest rate of uninsured people in the country, according to the latest census data. For some Texans, pregnancy is the first time they can access health services. But navigating public health options for care can be overwhelming. Here's what you need to know.
A Texas woman died after the hospital said it would be a crime to ...
Oct 31, 2024 · Among those experts were more than a dozen OB-GYNs and maternal-fetal medicine specialists from across the country, including researchers at prestigious institutions, doctors who regularly handle miscarriages and experts who have served on state maternal mortality review committees or held posts at national professional medical organizations.
A familiar refrain: Some polls say Texas could turn blue, but can …
Sep 16, 2024 · You may have heard this somewhere before: In the run up to Election Day, a high-profile Democratic challenger in a closely watched race appears to be pulling ahead in the polls, a race that could flip a seat.