Is This a New Dawn for Abortion Rights in Texas?
Advocates and Democratic lawmakers are feeling something new about the future of reproductive rights and women’s health in Texas: hope.
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Holy Shit, Texas Democrats Are Gonna Govern
You're not hallucinating. Or, even if you are, either way it really happened.
Despite Surge in Prison Overdoses, State Agency Requests No New Treatment Funding
“Funding drug interdiction alone is a misguided approach,” one state senator told the Observer. “The state must also address the ongoing problem of addiction in our prison system through treatment and rehabilitation, in addition to prevention.”
Texas Is Trying to Punish Its Way Out of a Prison Overdose Crisis
While quality treatment options remain scarce—even in the hardest-hit lockups
Texas Maternal Mortality Committee’s Next Report Will Skip Post-‘Roe’ Deaths. Lawmakers Suspect Political Influence.
And one Texan says the body’s decision “retriggered” the pain of losing his wife, who counts among the preventable deaths that soon followed the state’s abortion bans.
In Texas Schools, a Crisis of Arrests of Kids as Young as 10
A groundbreaking data analysis shows how districts across the state are arresting and citing children for common misbehavior, leaving lasting trauma as the Legislature rejects bills to raise the age of criminal responsibility and floods schools with even more police.
School Closures Are Escalating Across Texas. ‘It’s Not a Local Failure.’
State funding and policy have fallen short, advocates say, and the consequences are not confined to your backyard.
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Data Center Boom Exposes GOP Faultlines over Local Control
In rural areas like Caldwell County, local Republican officials and citizens are scrambling to find ways to empower counties and slow AI-fueled development.