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Texas Rep. Gina Hinojosa on Wednesday announced she is running for governor in 2026, setting up a potential clash between Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and one of the Legislature’s most strident critics of his school voucher program.
#News #Politics #Texas #2026Elections #GovernorGregAbbott #StateRepresentativeGinaHinojosa #TexasGovernorSRace #TexasPolitics
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The University of Houston hosted a hearing of the Texas House Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting on Saturday. Almost all of the candidates running for TX-18, vacant since Rep. Sylvester Turner's death in March, urged the committee not to redraw the boundaries.
#CivilRights #Elections #InDepth #National #News #Politics #Texas #Voting #18thCongressionalDistrict #2025TexasLegislature #GovernorGregAbbott #RacialDiscrimination #SpecialSession #TexasRedistricting
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Democratic lawmakers at the state capital on Monday said they are keeping all options on the table to stop Republican leaders from advancing their special session redistricting agenda, along with other legislative bills they say are harmful to the average Texan.
#Local #News #Politics #2025TexasLegislature #Congress #Elections #GovernorGregAbbott #National #PresidentDonaldTrump #SpecialSession #Texas #TexasRedistricting #Voting
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President Donald Trump is seeking to pick up at least four, potentially five, Texas congressional seats for Republicans in a midterm election cycle that ordinarily would favor the Democrats.
#Elections #InDepth #National #News #Politics #Texas #Voting #2025TexasLegislature #Congress #GovernorGregAbbott #PresidentDonaldTrump #SpecialSession #TexasRedistricting
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Governor Greg Abbott previously signaled support for Senate Bill 17 on security grounds. Opponents warn the bill would encourage widespread anti-Asian discrimination.
#Court #Housing #Immigration #International #National #News #Politics #SupremeCourt #Texas #89thTexasLegislature #AntiAsianLaws #GovernorGregAbbott #HomeSales #LandSales #TexasHouseRepresentativeGeneWu
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The 89th Texas Legislature could be largely defined and remembered for its conservative push on education policies.
#Education #EducationNews #News #Politics #Texas #89thTexasLegislature #EducationSavingsAccount #EducationRelatedPolicies #GovernorGregAbbott #SchoolFunding #SchoolVoucherProgram #TexasPublicSchools
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Flanked by elected officials and crime victims in Houston on Tuesday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law several legislative measures aimed at tightening the state's bail laws.
#Court #CriminalJustice #HarrisCounty #Houston #Local #News #Politics #Texas #BailBills #BailLegislation #BailReform #GovernorGregAbbott #MagistrateJudges #TexasBailReform
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Four civil liberties groups, which already are suing Louisiana over its law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public-school classrooms, say they'll file a lawsuit against Texas as soon as Gov. Greg Abbott signs Senate Bill 10.
#Court #Education #EducationNews #News #Politics #Religion #Texas #2025TexasLegislature #ACLUOfTexas #EstablishmentClause #FirstAmendment #GovernorGregAbbott #TenCommandmentsInSchools #TexasPublicSchools
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A pandemic-era Texas law permitting to-go alcohol sales is still helping restaurants to improve their bottom lines.
#Business #News #Texas #Alcohol #AlcoholDelivery #AlcoholToGo #DoorDash #GovernorGregAbbott #TopStories
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A Rice University political science professor recently expressed concerns about the forthcoming Texas Regulatory Efficiency Office -- also known as the state's version of "DOGE."
#Business #HoustonMatters #News #Politics #Texas #DepartmentOfGovernmentEfficiency #DOGE #GovernorGregAbbott #RiceUniversity #TexasDOGE #TexasRegulatoryEfficiencyOffice
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Expanded protections and support for virtual education programs across Texas has been greenlighted by Gov. Greg Abbott, who signed a bill to strengthen the framework for K-12 virtual learning.
#Education #EducationNews #News #Politics #Texas #GovernorGregAbbott #OnlineLearning #StateSenatorPaulBettencourt #TexasLegislature #TexasVirtualAcademy #VirtualLearning
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After struggling to gain enough bipartisan support to tighten the state’s bail laws, Texas Republicans appear closer than ever to achieving their goal of amending the state Constitution to keep more defendants behind bars pretrial.
#Court #CriminalJustice #HarrisCounty #Houston #Local #News #Politics #Texas #BailBonds #BailReformLegislation #BailSystem #GovernorGregAbbott #TexasLegislature
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A special election for Texas’ 18th Congressional District has been called for Nov. 4 – which will be nearly eight months after the death of U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner left the Houston seat vacant.
#Elections #HarrisCounty #Houston #Local #National #News #Politics #Texas #Voting #18thCongressionalDistrict #GovernorGregAbbott #HarrisCountyElections #SpecialElections #SylvesterTurnerDeath #TX18thDistrict
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Former Houston City Council member Amanda Edwards has joined the contest to succeed the late U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner as the representative for Texas’ 18th Congressional District.
#Elections #Houston #Local #National #News #Politics #Texas #18thCongressionalDistrictRace #AmandaEdwards #ChristianMenefee #CongressmanSylvesterTurner #GovernorGregAbbott #SpecialElection
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Gov. Greg Abbott touted Texas’ strong economy in his State of the State address Sunday, also laying out his list of priorities for Texas lawmakers. These include creating a school voucher-like program and lowering Texans’ property taxes.
#CriminalJustice #EducationNews #Infrastructure #News #Politics #Texas #GovGregAbbottStateOfTheState #GovernorGregAbbott #StateOfTheStateAddress #TexasPropertyTaxes #TexasSchoolVouchers #TexasWater
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Gov. Greg Abbott is asking the federal government for more than $11 billion in reimbursements to Texas for the costs of border security operations and wall construction during the Biden administration.
#Border #Immigration #News #Texas #BorderAndImmigration #BorderSecurity #FederalFunding #GovernorGregAbbott #OperationLoneStar #TexasBorderAndImmigration
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Gov. Greg Abbott threatened Texas A&M University President Mark Welsh III’s job over claims the university broke the state’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
#Education #EducationNews #News #Politics #Texas #AntiDEILaw #DEI #DEIBan #GovGregAbbott #GovernorGregAbbott #TexasAM
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A reported potential deal between Houston and the state would send the city’s “excess” water to West Texas. But the Houston region faces a dramatic shortfall in the coming years.
#CityOfHouston #Houston #HoustonMayor #Infrastructure #Local #News #Texas #GovernorGregAbbott #HoustonMayorJohnWhitmire #HoustonWater #HoustonWaterLeaks #TexasWaterDevelopmentBoard #WaterSupply
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The leader of a conservation nonprofit says Texas lawmakers likely would need to vet an arrangement in which Houston would sell some of its water to parched portions of the state.
#CityOfHouston #Houston #HoustonMatters #HoustonMayor #Local #News #Texas #GalvestonBayFoundation #GovernorGregAbbott #HoustonMayorJohnWhitmire #TexasLegislature #WaterSupply #WestTexas
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The Public Utility Commission of Texas has issued its report on CenterPoint Energy's response to Hurricane Beryl and is recommending the state legislature to take step to improve communication.
#EnergyEnvironment #Hurricane #Infrastructure #News #Politics #Texas #CenterPointEnergy #GovernorGregAbbott #HurricaneBeryl #PowerOutages #PublicUtilityCommissionOfTexas
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A Texas House of Representatives committee did not have the authority to override death row inmate Robert Roberson's scheduled execution with a subpoena, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday.
#CriminalJustice #News #Texas #DeathRow #GovernorGregAbbott #RobertRoberson #TexasHouseOfRepresentatives #TexasSupremeCourt
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During the primary, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was successful in ousting many anti-school voucher Republicans from the Texas House. Now his pro-voucher candidates must sway voters in the general election. The voucher issue could help Democrats.
#Education #EducationNews #Election2024 #InDepth #Local #News #Politics #Schools #Texas #2024Election #GovernorGregAbbott #PrivateSchoolVouchers #SchoolChoice #TexasHouseCandidate #TexasSchoolVouchers
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U.S. Appeals Court Orders Texas to Remove Buoy Barrier in Rio Grande
Gov. Greg Abbott’s office has said the floating buoys are needed to restrict migrants entering from Mexico. The federal government said they were illegal.
By Edgar Sandoval
Reporting from San Antonio
Dec. 1, 2023A federal appeals court on Friday ordered the state of Texas to remove a barrier of floating buoys in the Rio Grande installed at the direction of Gov. Greg Abbott to block migrants trying to cross from Mexico, delivering a blow to the state’s efforts to curtail unauthorized immigration.
In a 2-1 decision, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans declined a request by the governor’s office to reverse a previous finding by a federal judge that the barriers were illegal.
#illegalimmigration #Texas #GovernorGregAbbott
#USDepartmentofJustice #5thCircuitCourt #BouyBarrierhttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/01/us/texas-border-buoys-court.html
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