Texas Public Radio

Policy experts discussed a range of issues they hope legislators consider next year, including child care, early childhood education and chronic school absenteeism.

Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham said the state’s recently purchased 1,400-acre ranch could be used as a deportation hub.

So far Trump has looked elsewhere for his earliest cabinet and high-level staff appointments, in some cases passing over Texans who were in the mix.

Local leaders and rural revitalization experts say Texas’ smallest towns can survive — despite a shift to urban and suburban counties — but it will take investments.

The turnout rate dropped more than 8 percentage points compared to four years ago — a high-water mark for the Lone Star State.

The group of 111 doctors cited recent ProPublica reporting on two pregnant women who died because doctors did not provide lifesaving care.

Texas’ top elections official said Friday that federal inspectors can’t be inside polls or places where ballots are counted under Texas law after the DOJ announced plans to send monitors to the state.

Norma Elia Cantú, Murchison Professor of the Humanities at Trinity University, explored the significance of the celebration and how it has changed throughout the nation.

“I’ve been wondering why Latinos don’t have more of a presence in the Legislature now that we’re the majority in the state,” says director Hector Galán. “So I wanted to figure out why.”

Every week, thousands of faith leaders across Texas share religious teachings with their congregations — and some even offer political guidance.