In an unprecedented move, Gov. Greg Abbott announced Monday he would waive testing requirements for this year’s STAAR exam, as many schools expect to be closed at least through the April testing window,...
After a long wait, the Texas Senate has finally unveiled a thorough proposal for how to tackle school finance and school property tax reform — bringing back several ideas the House already nixed.
State...
Beto O'Rourke is making his 2020 debut this weekend in Texas — and seizing an opportunity to shore up his home-field advantage as the state begins to draw serious attention from his rivals.
After...
All signs indicate Beto O’Rourke will run for president in 2020.
But the former congressman remained coy Saturday during a question-and-answer session at the SXSW Film Festival, where he dodged...
Aliyya Swaby and Cassandra Pollack
• March 6, 2019
Texas Legislature 2019
The 86th Legislature runs from Jan. 8 to May 27. From the state budget to health care to education policy — and the politics behind it all — we focus on what Texans need...
EL PASO — Beto O'Rourke didn't utter a word about 2020 here Monday night, but he didn't have to.
Acknowledgment or not, O'Rourke's leading role in his hometown's response to President Donald Trump's...
Julián Aguilar and Patrick Svitek
• February 12, 2019
EL PASO — President Donald Trump kicked off his first major rally of the year here the same way he campaigned during his successful 2016 bid: by unleashing a torrent of criticism on the media, pushing...
Texas industrial facilities continued to spew out tens of millions of pounds of unauthorized air pollution in 2017 as a result of equipment malfunctions and other incidents that companies claimed were...
As Texas’ Republican leadership calls for property tax cuts and a school finance overhaul, the Texas House on Monday pitched a bold proposal: Pump roughly $7 billion more state funds into public schools...
Cassandra Pollack, Edgar Walters, and Alex Samuels
• January 8, 2019
A gray fog descended on Austin Tuesday morning, but the scene inside the Texas Capitol was one of colorful festivities to mark the first day of the 86th biennial legislative session.
And perhaps the heartiest...
Four years after Texas ranked near the bottom in voter turnout in the country, the state saw a double-digit percentage point increase in that figure for the 2018 midterms.
But that wasn’t good enough...
Julián Aguilar and Patrick Svitek
• November 28, 2018
EL PASO – Beto O'Rourke, coming off a closer-than-expected race against U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is no longer ruling out a 2020 presidential run.
During his Senate campaign, the El Paso congressman declared he...
