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New 287(g) task force agreements are trickling in as the Lege considers mandating ICE cooperation and some counties await ...

DEI campus crackdown, Republicans are now going after gender and ethnic studies programs and faculty independence.

The governor crushed anti-voucher Republicans in the Texas House, but there are still plenty of party activists who are ...

The Legislature’s lower chamber has finally blessed school vouchers—and denied ordinary Texans the chance to weigh in.

The wind blows from two directions to the Los Vientos Wind Farm, Texas’ largest and the nation’s second largest, with 426 ...

Michael Ward is a writer from Dallas. His work has appeared most recently in the Tampa Review and X-R-A-Y.

"Somebody had to eat the first oyster." With that salty metaphor, Lieutenant Governor Bob Bullock makes the argument that elected officials shouldn't be afraid to try new ideas—in this case, vouchers ...

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Skip Rhudy's first novel, Under the Gulf Coast Sun (Stoney Creek Publishing, April 2025) is based on his years growing up in Port Aransas. A Texas author earned a certificate in AI—but there’s no way ...