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Texans pay some of the highest property taxes in the country, and listeners have a lot of thoughts about how that could be addressed. One unconventional idea we’ve heard: offsetting homeowners’ tax bills with revenue from legal weed. So, could that actually work?
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The Senate Special Committee on Redistricting held hearings last week on the current map defining state Senate districts.The map, along with the rest of Texas’s political boundaries, were redrawn in 2021 by the Republican-majority Texas Legislature and are still seeing pushback from Democrats.
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The Kansas City Chiefs, who overcame multiple injuries prior to and during the game against the Cincinnati Bengals, were hosting the AFC Championship for the fifth year in a row. They'll face the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, Feb. 12.
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The lawsuit filed Thursday wants to end the practice of automatically holding death row inmates in solitary confinement.
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The state had a banner year in job growth, though economists say the spike is not sustainable.
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The latest results from a Texas Lyceum poll show an erosion of trust in some of America’s most important institutions, including the education system.
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The call for an outright ban departs from the agenda of Republican leaders in the Legislature and efforts by Kansans for Life.
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Kansas Republicans are considering the removal of a three-day grace period for returning ballots by mail and creating runoff elections for statewide races. Democrats and voter turnout advocates say they are voter suppression efforts.
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Three paces one direction and then three paces back, prisoners describe their lives in Texas prisons and why they want changes.
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The bills would ban governments and citizens of China, Iran, North Korea and Russia from buying property in the state.
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A deal between the state's largest insurer and one of the Austin area's largest hospital networks would mean thousands can keep their plans.
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The Environmental Protection Agency recently released new rules regarding the Waters of the United States that decide which bodies of water fall under federal protection. But a case the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on soon throws those rules into question and could mean less protection for wetlands.