Abbott’s top priorities for the legislative session included property tax reform, ending COVID restrictions, expanding school choice, increasing safety, tightening bail restrictions, hardening the border, and addressing the fentanyl crisis.| Texas Standard
Texas is drought-prone, and experts say the state needs to take steps to protect itself.| Texas Standard
The administration has been testing a strategy of using the courts as leverage to force political outcomes. In Texas, the state’s leaders and conservative activists have been willing, if not eager, collaborators.| Texas Standard
Texas and California are at the center of a new nationwide redistricting battle that could shape control of the U.S. House. With Texas lawmakers having approved new maps, California Democrats are now advancing a competing plan that would create more Democratic representatives in the Golden State.| Texas Standard
Peyote is a Schedule I controlled substance, but if you're a member of a "traditional Indian religion," there's a legal exception. In the U.S., it's only naturally grown in Texas – but the supply is drying up.| Texas Standard
After protests, a two-week quorum break and out-of-state pressure, the Texas House passed a new map for the state’s congressional districts on Wednesday. The bill now proceeds to the Texas Senate, which is weighing a slightly different redistricting map.| Texas Standard
Short-term projections call for prices to move lower to close out the year.| Texas Standard
The PUC says that releasing the information could lead to acts of terrorism.| Texas Standard
While the moves spell trouble for the industry, consumers may reap the benefits at the pump.| Texas Standard
Gov. Greg Abbott has asked lawmakers to send him legislation to address disaster relief and prevention.| Texas Standard
Researchers say the state's death toll – 246 people – is a severe undercount.| Texas Standard
