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Texas universities with federal contracts are caught between Greg Abbott and Joe Biden over COVID-19 vaccine mandates

While some universities in other states that hold federal contracts have mandated vaccines for all employees, many Texas universities, which collectively have billions in...

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Analysis: Are lawmakers trying to make Texans more confident in elections, or less?

After conservative complaints about the national results in the 2020 election, Texas Republicans have tried to anticipate everything that might play against them in 2022,...

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Texas Legislature

Texas universities with federal contracts are caught between Greg Abbott and Joe Biden over COVID-19 vaccine mandates

Analysis: Are lawmakers trying to make Texans more confident in elections, or less?

Eva Guzman airs early ads in bid to stand out in crowded primary for attorney general

Enrollment at Texas’ public universities inches ahead of community colleges for the first time since 1990s

Texas’ new political maps create safer districts for incumbents — and put an end to some challengers’ runs

Texas has new political maps. See which districts your home is in.

Analysis: A quick turn on property taxes with the long game in mind

Texas urges U.S. Supreme Court to allow near-total abortion ban to stand as Biden administration lawsuit unfolds

Power companies required to better prepare plants for winter in first phase of rule approved by Texas regulators

ACLU of Texas sues Houston-area school district over gender-based dress code’s long-hair policy

Gov. Greg Abbott’s pick for top Texas election post worked with Trump to fight 2020 results

More than $727M coming to Texas A&M universities, including $300M for TDEM and $45M for TAMIU

In fast-growing Central Texas, redistricting sparks political reshuffling in upcoming statehouse and congressional races

Texas says popular cannabis extract, delta-8, is illegal, sending retailers scrambling

Oil industry helped handpick members of Texas advisory group for electric grid reliability, emails show

TribCast: Is the Texas Legislature finished for 2021?

Texas state Sen. Kel Seliger, a Republican willing to buck his party leadership, will not seek reelection

U.S. Senate Republicans block federal voting rights legislation that would override Texas’ restrictions

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says Gov. Greg Abbott should call lawmakers back for a fourth special session

UT Rio Grande Valley to offer free tuition and fees to students with family income $100,000 or less

Republicans say Texas’ new political maps are “race blind.” To some voters of color, that translates as political invisibility.

Analysis: Texas legislators set the table for the 2022 elections

‘Packing’ alleged in suit over new district lines

Five takeaways from Texas’ third special legislative session

Texas legislators pass most — but not all — of Gov. Greg Abbott’s priority measures in final flurry of lawmaking

Gov. Greg Abbott didn’t get everything he wanted in the special session. Will he call lawmakers back for more?

After Texas and other states passed new voting restrictions, federal bills could expand ballot access. Here’s what you need to know.

Lawmakers pass most but not all Abbott priorities

After months of store closures and layoffs, border businesses eager to welcome back Mexican customers Nov. 8

It’s cheap, easy to make and in demand overseas. So why can’t this Texas-born COVID-19 vaccine break into the U.S. market?

Texas legislators pass most — but not all — of Gov. Greg Abbott’s priority measures in final flurry of lawmaking

Texas Republicans send Gov. Greg Abbott a new congressional map that protects GOP power, reduces influence of voters of color

Texas voters will decide whether to lower their property tax payments after Legislature completes last-minute Hail Mary

First lawsuit filed challenging new Texas political maps as intentionally discriminatory

Longtime U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett will run in the Austin area's new congressional district

Texas bill to block COVID-19 vaccine mandates for employers failed in Legislature after business groups rallied against it

Analysis: An election slogan you won’t hear in Texas in 2022

Austin voters could put hundreds more police officers on the streets after last year’s budget cuts

Texas colleges and universities get more than $3 billion for campus construction projects under bill headed to Gov. Greg Abbott

The law that prompted a school administrator to call for an “opposing” perspective on the Holocaust is causing confusion across Texas

Texas bill restricting transgender student athletes’ sports participation heads to Gov. Greg Abbott

Lawmakers send to Gov. Greg Abbott new political maps that would further solidify the GOP’s grip on the Texas Legislature

Texas House wants to use federal COVID relief funds to send out $525 checks — but only to homeowners

Texas Republicans pave way for new battleground state House district in Rio Grande Valley over local lawmakers’ objections

Biden administration to ask Supreme Court to stop enforcement of Texas’ near-total abortion ban

Texas Senate approves $3 billion college campus construction bill

With surgical precision, Republicans draw two congressional districts that dilute power of Hispanic and Asian voters

Texans will decide eight proposed amendments to the state Constitution on Nov. 2. Here’s what you need to know.

Texas House approves bill targeting transgender student athletes after lawmakers’ three previous attempts faltered

Texas’ near-total abortion ban will remain in effect as federal appeals court agrees to hear legal challenge

As Texas GOP wages war on COVID-19 mandates, lawmakers OK bill that would make companies requiring the shot vulnerable to lawsuits

Texas Supreme Court puts San Antonio school district’s vaccine mandate on hold

“Extremely influential” or “delusional ideas of grandeur”? GOP primary foe Don Huffines sees impact as Gov. Greg Abbott pushes rightward

After his Round Rock district was redrawn to help Republicans, state Rep. James Talarico says he’ll move to Austin to run in 2022

CI NATION ROUNDUP: Gov. Abbott signs order banning COVID-19 vaccine mandates; Frisco businesses seek to solve area workforce shortage, and more top news

Gov. Abbott signs executive order banning all COVID-19 vaccine mandates

Texas House committee advances proposed map for lower chamber

Capital Highlights — Abbott wants to increase illegal voting penalties

Here's a closer look at the dizzying exercise known as redistricting in Texas

Texas House proposes map that increases Republican strength and decreases Black and Hispanic majority districts

New redistricting map increases GOP strength, decreases Black and Hispanic majority districts

Explaining the Most Bizarrely Shaped Districts in Texas’s Proposed Congressional Map

Texas Senate releases proposed redistricting maps as special session begins

OPINION: Taking advantage: Conservatives add strength on growth among minorities

The Financial Cost Of COVID (Sept. 20, 2021) – Houston Public Media

City Council Upgrades Status Of Houston Spaceport To Local Government Corporation – Houston Public Media

Gov. Greg Abbott calls special legislative session for redistricting, other conservative priorities starting Sept. 20

Previewing The Third Special Session (Sept. 8, 2021) – Houston Public Media

The Manifold Threats of the Texas Abortion Law

Brownsville man led push for new adaptive athletics law

OPINION: New laws: 666 changes to state codes cut many rights, freedoms

666 new Texas laws go into effect on Wednesday

Texas Legislature passes sweeping election bill and sends to Governor Greg Abbott for signature

More Than 650 Texas Laws Go Into Effect Sept. 1. Here Are 13 You Should Know – Houston Public Media

666 new Texas laws go into effect Sept. 1. Here are some that might affect you.

New Texas voting laws, political maps could once again require federal approval under U.S. House bill named after John Lewis

School districts: Mask mandate ban goes against constitution

State legislature supports TAMIU's path to academic and student success with $6M in funding