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Texas Has the Highest Uninsured Rate in the Country. Lawmakers Haven’t Addressed it This Session.
Health care advocates were optimistic that the Legislature would do something this year to address high, and rising, uninsured rates; high rates of maternal mortality; and the rural hospital closure crisis.
Texas has the highest overall uninsured rate in the country, the highest rate of uninsured kids and the highest rate of uninsured women of childbearing age. Yet...Read More
White Supremacists, Counter-Protesters Collide at Capitol After Black History Event
State troopers and local police surrounded the 'White Lives Matter Too' demonstrators, who were outnumbered by hundreds of counter-protestors.
State troopers and local police surrounded the "White Lives Matter Too" demonstrators, who were armed but outnumbered by hundreds of counter-protestors....Read More
Lege Hearing Gets Tense Over Racial Profiling
Houston Democrat Garnet Coleman plans to file the Sandra Bland Act to promote statewide law enforcement reforms.
Houston Democrat Garnet Coleman plans to file the Sandra Bland Act to promote statewide law enforcement reforms....Read More
‘Go Back to Islam’
When hatred collides with Texas’ Stand Your Ground law, the result is fatal.
A Houston widow is still trying to process the shooting death of her husband, who she believes was killed not in self-defense, but out of Islamophobic rage....Read More
With Anti-Gay Marriage Resolution, Dan Patrick Accepts Defeat
Dan Patrick likes to blame others for the Senate's failure to address social issues, but he doesn’t have a lot of success to show in this department either. ...Read More
State Budget Experts Mistakenly Claim Sodomy is Still Illegal
Texas’ "homosexual conduct" law was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, yet the Legislature has yet to remove the sodomy ban from the books and state budge...Read More
Coleman Seeks to Repeal ‘Stand Your Ground’ Law
Texas’ current self-defense law has put a target on the backs of men of color and needs to go, says Rep. Garnet Coleman (D-Houston). Coleman filed a bill ...Read More
Texas on the Brink: Too Few Graduates, Too Many Uninsured
The bottom line, say the representatives who participated in the group, is that Texas has some major work to do. Rep. Garnet Coleman (D-Houston), who led the 20...Read More