Texas Legislature
Texas Association of Business Comes Out Against Anti-Trans ‘Bathroom Bills’
Auditor’s Office Asked to Investigate Anti-Abortion Group’s Health Care Contract
A left-leaning nonprofit has questioned whether the anti-abortion Heidi Group deserved a $1.6 million state contract for reproductive health services....Read More
Texas Court Says Trans Man Can’t Be Listed as Male on His Driver’s License
A Houston trans man says it's "jarring and heartbreaking" that a judge has refused to allow him to change his license gender marker from "female" to "male." ...Read More
This Time, It’s a Progressive Lawmaker Derailing an Affordable Housing Project
A quirk in Texas law lets House members essentially veto affordable housing projects in their districts. Austin Democrat Celia Israel is the latest to do so —...Read More
Anti-Abortion Group Set to Receive Sizeable State Contract for Women’s Health Services
The Heidi Group's founder says abortion providers may dump HIV into the water supply via fetal tissue. The nonprofit received a $1.6 million state contract....Read More
The Texas Green Party Isn’t Making It Any Easier to be Green
With their statewide focus, Texas Greens are effectively taking Sanders supporters' enthusiasm, flattening it out, and feeding it carefully into a shredder....Read More
Conventional Wisdom: Greg Abbott’s Broken but Unbowed, Reviewed
In his first book, the governor hews to a familiar theme — fantasies of a constitutional makeover writ by him.
The Texas governor's book is part political tract, part memoir, and laden with copious metaphors about government and the injury that left Abbott paralyzed....Read More
How 13 People (Total) Elected Houston’s Likely New State Rep
Texas is known for low voter turnout, but even by its measures, what just happened in Houston is surprising: Thirteen people elected the next state rep....Read More
Experts to Lawmakers: Fund Schools Less to See How Creative They Get
Depending on whose measure you’re using, Texas is somewhere between 38th and 49th in the nation when it comes to per-student funding. Instead of wallowing in ...Read More
Proposed Fetal Tissue Rules Create ‘Staggering Financial Burden’ for Texans
A lawyer and funeral industry consumer advocate reckons Gov. Abbott's new fetal tissue burial requirements may cost Texans hundreds of millions of dollars....Read More