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Patrick Michels, a former Observer staff writer, is a reporter at the Center for Investigative Reporting.
A major player in the private space movement is considering a launch site in Brownsville.
Some lawmakers want to improve Texas’ State Board of Education by making it bigger. Thirty years ago, they tried to shrink their way to a better board.
Thanks to the Sunset process, legislators get to remake the Ethics Commission as they see fit.
Law enforcement isn’t rushing to comply with a new law meant to clear backlogs of untested rape evidence.
After suing to open Texas elections to direct corporate spending, Houston tea party group says it's all about free speech.
At Trinity University, the former Florida governor said he’s saddened by the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, but that the state is safer for the law he signed in 2005.
Thousands of teachers, parents and advocates will rally to make school funding a campaign issue.
One year on, some effects of the Legislature’s public education cuts are clear
A new Medicaid outsourcing scheme is putting independent pharmacies out of business, while out-of-state companies reap the benefits.