Proposed Texas GOP platform calls for the Bible in schools, electoral changes that would lock Democrats out of statewide office ( www.texastribune.org )
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Proposed Texas GOP platform calls for the Bible in schools, electoral changes that would lock Democrats out of statewide office ( www.texastribune.org )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15907509...
Proposed Texas GOP platform calls for the Bible in schools, electoral changes that would lock Democrats out of statewide office ( www.texastribune.org )
Far-right favorite Abraham George elected to lead Texas GOP ( www.texastribune.org )
Texas GOP convention kicks off with party leaders attacking Speaker Dade Phelan ( www.texastribune.org )
The government wants to buy their flood-prone homes. But these Texans aren’t moving. ( www.texastribune.org )
Texas leaders zero in on exploding hemp market ( www.texastribune.org )
Amarillo City Council must vote on abortion travel ban following successful voter petition ( www.texastribune.org )
North Texas landowners trying to stop a reservoir that Wichita Falls calls crucial ( www.texastribune.org )
Republican Texas school board member campaigned against schools indoctrinating kids. Then she read the curriculum. ( www.texastribune.org )
But after taking office and examining hundreds of pages of curriculum, Gore was shocked by what she found — and didn’t find....
A GOP Texas school board member campaigned against schools indoctrinating kids. Then she read the curriculum. ( www.texastribune.org )
Weeks after winning a school board seat in her deeply red Texas county, Courtney Gore immersed herself in the district’s curriculum, spending her nights and weekends poring over hundreds of pages of lesson plans that she had fanned out on the coffee table in her living room and even across her bed. She was searching for...
A GOP Texas school board member campaigned against schools indoctrinating kids. Then she read the curriculum. ( www.texastribune.org )
When Texas jails issue tablets, it comes at cost for inmates and families - A handful of Texas jails have issued electronic tablets to inmates. Counties can make money off their use. ( www.texastribune.org )
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Texas to pay landowners for damage caused by border crime | The Texas Tribune ( www.texastribune.org )
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Texans in Congress stay silent on Cuellar indictment, unlike with Santos and Menendez before him ( www.texastribune.org )
How shifting U.S. policies led to one of the deadliest incidents involving immigrants in Mexico’s history ( www.texastribune.org )
Forty men were killed and more than two dozen were injured in one of the deadliest incidents involving immigrants in Mexico’s history. Investigators put the blame for the incident on the migrants who set the blaze and the guards who failed to help them. The United States urged immigrants to take heed of the tragedy and pursue...
Police arrest more than two dozen pro-Palestine protesters on UT-Austin campus amid tense standoff ( www.texastribune.org )
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Police arrest more than two dozen pro-Palestine protesters on UT-Austin campus amid tense standoff ( www.texastribune.org )
Proposed changes to state Medicaid plans could shake up health coverage for 1.8 million low-income Texans ( www.texastribune.org )
The move, which has not been finalized, would drop three large health plans run for two decades by nonprofit children’s hospitals....
How Texas teens lost the one program that allowed birth control without parental consent ( www.texastribune.org )
Texas is in the minority of states that requires parental consent before a teenager can get birth control, in virtually all circumstances. But there’s long been one exception to that rule: the federal Title X program, which provides confidential contraception regardless of age, income or immigration status....
Former Texas House speaker says GOP megadonor Tim Dunn told him only Christians should hold leadership positions ( www.texastribune.org )
UT-Austin announces round of firings in latest step to comply with Texas’ DEI ban ( www.texastribune.org )
The University of Texas at Austin has laid off dozens employees who used to work in diversity, equity and inclusion programs....
How Texas’ cash bail system and under-resourced jails can wreak havoc on women who are poor ( www.texastribune.org )
About three in every four Texans in county jails are awaiting the resolution of their cases, according to data from the Texas Commission on Jail Standards, the state agency that oversees local jails. That number has surpassed pre-pandemic levels and is 14% higher than in January 2017....
First human case of bird flu in Texas detected after contact with infected dairy cattle ( www.texastribune.org )
The person had contact with infected cattle, state health officials said. It's the second recorded human case in the U.S....