The Senate Education Committee heard four hours of testimony Tuesday on a bill by Senator Dan Patrick that would require the State Board of Education to sign off on all lesson plans included in the online curriculum management tool CSCOPE.
The Capitol was the site of two dueling press conferences Monday over what could be one of the signature fights of the 2013 session: Medicaid expansion.
A key compromise on SB-11 moves the controversial bill to the full Senate.
The living meme, which has a type of dwarfism and is officially named Tardar Sauce, visited Austin last week.
In a committee hearing Tuesday, the exoneree and newlywed pushed for a bill that would change the statute of limitations for offenses involving prosecutorial misconduct.
With a bill that would bar school districts from using sex education curriculum developed by abortion providers, the culture wars returned to the Capitol.
A full complement of state senators will soon be seated for the first time in the 2013 legislative session.
The race to replace the late Texas State Senator Mario Gallegos.
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The former field director for the Obama campaign outlined the group's plan to turn Texas blue.
A Senate finance committee work group has proposed directing an additional $100 million towards preventative care and family planning.
Lyndon Johnson's dogged pursuit of Lady Bird further revealed in a cache of never-before-seen love letters.
Once again a judge rules that the state’s school finance system in unconstitutional.
Looking back at the last pay-for-play scandal as the call for ethics reforms rises in the 83rd Legislative Session.
If so, what is it?Brad Watson of WFAA-TV in Dallas made big news with his report of a potential deal between Perry and Abbott. From the station’s website: In an exclusive WFAA interview Wednesday, [Jan. 31] Gov. Rick Perry said Attorney General Greg Abbott has told him he won’t
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Ten years ago, Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated over East Texas as it reentered the Earth’s atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.
Those in the Senate chamber yesterday witnessed the strange ritual of drawing lots to stagger Senate terms after redistricting.
Two questions for Ginger Goodin, of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute.
Thirty-four years after showing his 1979 Chloé collection at Houston's Neiman Marcus, the designer plans to show his Chanel collection in Dallas in 2014.
According to a new report ranking the ten worst mercury-emitting coal plants in the US.
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After 18 years in office, the first and only female senator from Texas says goodbye.
The "kidnapper" David Sartin hired to ship his Ukranian mail-order bride in a crate from Kiev to Texas was an ATF officer.
The world will end this Sunday, on the birthday of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. Or so warns the imprisoned polygamist leader of FLDS.
Four Texans received Fs—almost as many Texans as received A+s.
Twelve days after the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson successfully pushed Congress to pass a big gun control bill.
The governor, speaking to a tea party group in a suburb of Fort Worth, held that those with concealed carry permits should be able to bring their guns everywhere.
Southwest Airlines announced that it would start charging fees for no-shows and for third bags on Friday.
Texas executed 15 people in 2012 and sent only nine new inmates to death row.
Crisis pregnancy centers served 17,527 clients last year, and that number will likely only grow.
Texas (and America) finally has an answer to the royal pregnancy.
This time to a black correspondent from the BBC, in an interview about the use of race in college admissions. He'd said similar things at a student forum in 1997.
The new dump for low-level radioactive waste in west Texas will help relieve an overburdened site in Utah, the Salt Lake Tribune reports.
Only $750 million per person. Five things to know about the Golden Spike Company's hopes and plans.
And it wouldn't be the first Islamophobic pig incident for the Houston exurbs either.
The former advisor to Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich penned an op-ed in US News & World Reports urging the party not to abandon its values in a rush towards the center after the election.
Mystery archer killed a third donkey from the same Fort Worth pasture this week.
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Armey, who has led FreedomWorks, one of the most influential tea party groups, since 2004, resigned Monday in an email.
Cruz's Thursday speech on "Opportunity Conservatism" gave political journalists yet another, er, opportunity to speculate about his longterm political plans.
New data from the U.S. Department of Education says that Texas is tied for fourth place with a high school graduation rate of 86 percent for the 2010-2011 school year.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is temporarily suspending the British oil giant's ability to receive contracts from the federal government.
The Oak Cliff apartment fixtures that witnessed the 1962-1963 fights between the assassin and his wife are on sale.
U.S. Citizens are cautioned to avoid the four Mexican states bordering Texas just a week before President Obama is set to meet with incoming Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.
Startling images of the 140-vehicle pileup on Interstate 10 west of Beaumont on Thanksgiving Day.
Pets separated from their owners by Superstorm Sandy got a lift from Southwest Airlines to a no-kill shelter in California.
Crimes against dolphins plague the Gulf of Mexico.
Following a union strike, Irving-based Hostess Brands announced on Friday that it would liquidate its factories.
Preston Hughes III was executed Thursday night for the 1988 slayings of a 15-year-old girl and 3-year-old boy.