Texas Legislature Stories
How Reproductive Health Fared in the 84th Legislature
Water, MUD and Beer: Recipe for an Explosive Hill Country Development Fight
In hindsight, perhaps Greg LaMantia, a scion of a South Texas family who made its fortune as a regional Budweiser distributor, shouldn't have named his 5,000-ac...Read More
Payday Loan Reform Faces Uphill Battle in House
Late into the night, the payday loan industry strutted its stuff before a very friendly House committee. The hearing came just a week after the Senate passed a ...Read More
El Paso Becomes Second City to Indict Employer for Wage Theft
In 2011, Austin-based Workers Defense Project successfully lobbied for the wage theft code amendment, authored by Senator Jose Rodriguez (D-El Paso), that made ...Read More
Payday Loan Industry Divides and Conquers at Capitol
Consumer advocates and Democrats are divided over a Senate bill that would impose light regulations on payday and auto-title lenders.
Consumer advocates and Democrats are divided over a Senate bill that would impose light regulations on payday and auto-title lenders. ...Read More
Hundreds Rally in Support of Planned Parenthood, Women’s Health
In contrast to the Planned Parenthood bashing at Tuesday’s Senate Education Committee hearing, hundreds rallied at the Capitol on Thursday morning to support ...Read More
State Government Hoarding, Not Spending Clean-Air Money
Budget-writers at the Capitol leave the vast majority of the money unspent in special accounts while the underfunded air quality programs languish....Read More
Perry at Pro-Life Rally: Ideal World Is One Without Abortion
This week marked the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, and an estimated 3,000 Texans marched through downtown Austin on Saturday afternoon to protest the landma...Read More
Legislators to Watch
Meet the promising newbies and the veterans in bigger roles during the 2013 Texas Legislature. ...Read More
If It Were Up To Us…
A dozen critical issues facing Texas that the Legislature really should address but probably won't.
We detail a dozen items that deal with the biggest problems in the state. Some of them are liberal fantasies (ahem, income tax) but others are sound public poli...Read More