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Paul Cobler is the Tribune's economy and industry reporter, covering the socioeconomic and political forces that impact Texans’ pocketbooks and upward mobility. Before joining the Tribune, he was a politics reporter for the Houston Landing and covered Baton Rouge City Hall for The Advocate in Louisiana. Paul grew up in Victoria, Texas, and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin. His reporting has a…| The Texas Tribune
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The low-interest loan to NRG Energy for a gas-fired power plant is the largest of three loans approved through the $7 billion fund since its creation in 2023.| The Texas Tribune
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State and local health agencies are having to cut programs and staff to make up the loss and more cuts could be coming.| The Texas Tribune
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With the threat of another hot summer ahead, advocates asked a federal judge to declare 100-degree-plus conditions in uncooled Texas facilities unconstitutional.| The Texas Tribune
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Experts say the Texas Energy Fund is facing an energy market that makes new power plants more expensive and less profitable.| The Texas Tribune
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Lawmakers tasked the Public Utility Commission with overseeing the Texas Energy Fund, though the agency has no experience running a loan program.| The Texas Tribune
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Texas hemp users stockpile products and consider moving out of state as ban looms, saying the medical marijuana program is currently an untenable alternative.| The Texas Tribune
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Democrats will need to sort through a pileup of potential candidates who see an opportunity to harness backlash to the Trump administration in next year’s midterms.| The Texas Tribune
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It’s an unusual situation for the lieutenant governor, long viewed by GOP activists as a stalwart conservative responsible for driving the Legislature rightward.| The Texas Tribune
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Abbott faces pressure from both sides of the aisle. The prohibition was a priority for Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, but some hemp farmers and veterans want it killed.| The Texas Tribune
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House Bill 46, which awaits Gov. Greg Abbott’s approval, would include more patients with chronic pain and allow for prescribed vaporized and aerosol products, such as vapes.| The Texas Tribune
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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has called banning THC products a top priority. The latest draft of the lower chamber’s THC regulation bill would allow retailers to continue selling edibles and drinks.| The Texas Tribune
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As lawmakers work to close loopholes that allow minors access to cannabis consumables, hemp farmers warn a total THC ban would strangle a once-hailed crop.| The Texas Tribune
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In an interview, the lieutenant governor talks about his recent pop-up investigations and how he uses storytelling to make a political point.| The Texas Tribune
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Texas Democrats accused the two Republican senators of "putting Party and politics over country and the welfare of all Americans."| The Texas Tribune
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Warming ocean temperatures and warmer air mean there’s more water vapor in the atmosphere to fuel extreme downpours like those that struck Texas during the July 4 weekend.| The Texas Tribune
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The wide-ranging bill is the vehicle for much of Trump’s domestic policy agenda, containing key changes that will affect daily life for millions of Texans.| The Texas Tribune
Contact information, election results, salary and news for Texas Rep. Nate Schatzline.| The Texas Tribune
Contact information, election results, salary and news for Texas Rep. Ken King.| The Texas Tribune
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The bill contains many provisions legal experts say are likely unconstitutional, including one that says it can’t be challenged in state court.| The Texas Tribune
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Here’s a look at House members, ranked from most conservative to most liberal, based on votes cast during the 2023 regular session.| The Texas Tribune
Texas’ THC ban paused after Gov. Greg Abbott veto. Here’s what to know.| The Texas Tribune
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Texas has already militarized the border under Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star.| The Texas Tribune
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The state has built about 34 miles of wall spread out across at least six counties on Texas’ 1,254-mile border with Mexico.| The Texas Tribune
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Timothy Mellon is the Wyoming-based grandson of banking tycoon Andrew Mellon. He is responsible for nearly 98% of the donations to Texas’ border wall fund.| The Texas Tribune
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Local officials said the public was not put in any danger and the attempts were reported to federal authorities.| The Texas Tribune
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Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, said Texas has no authority to “impose its cruel abortion ban here.”| The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune covers politics and a range of policy issues that affect all Texans. Those topics include public and higher education, health and human services, demographics and voting rights, immigration and border security, criminal justice, energy, urban affairs, the environment, and transportation.| The Texas Tribune
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Some lawmakers have called for Welsh to be fired over his handling of a student’s complaints about gender identity content being taught in a children’s literature class.| The Texas Tribune
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The committees were made to honor slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk and come as university faculty have come under online scrutiny.| The Texas Tribune
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The personal data was accessible to the public because of a glitch in the code of the department’s web application.| The Texas Tribune
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Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot ignited a firestorm of controversy when he announced he wouldn't prosecute some low-level crimes, including certain theft offenses. But he's among many prosecutors turning their focus away from nonviolent offenses.| The Texas Tribune
Judge temporarily blocks Texas’ Ten Commandments requirement in 11 school districts| The Texas Tribune
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The region is still cleaning up after last week's storms in which at least six people died.| The Texas Tribune
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The plan would overhaul the process for migrants seeking asylum, aiming to reduce the average wait time for a decision from five years to six months.| The Texas Tribune
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The Biden administration had ended the policy that forced 70,000 migrants to wait in Mexico. But a federal judge in Texas forced the administration to restart the program in December.| The Texas Tribune
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Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office has sued the Biden administration 20 times in Texas federal courts over everything from mask mandates to immigration policies. Trump-appointed judges have ruled in seven of them, all in favor of Texas.| The Texas Tribune
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A Cuban woman sent to Ciudad Juárez after seeking asylum in El Paso was raped as she waited for her U.S. court date. She worries more migrants could be victims of violence as the Biden administration revives the "remain in Mexico" program.| The Texas Tribune
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Advocates say the policy that forced 70,000 non-Mexican asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases are pending will create dire conditions for migrants if it’s revived.| The Texas Tribune
No, Texas can’t legally secede from the U.S., despite popular myth| The Texas Tribune
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The program will officially launch at the start of the 2026-27 school year.| The Texas Tribune
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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.| The Texas Tribune
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President Donald Trump said he thinks Republicans could flip a handful of congressional districts in Texas next year through “just a very simple redrawing."| The Texas Tribune
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Luke Macias, a longtime conservative political consultant, is listed as the new president of the conservative PAC on its website. Jonathan Stickland, the former president, met with Fuentes for nearly seven hours.| The Texas Tribune
Contact information, election results, salary and news for Attorney General Ken Paxton.| The Texas Tribune
Contact information, election results, salary and news for Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick.| The Texas Tribune
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The bill, a priority for Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, is part of a larger effort to limit the power of elected prosecutors, especially in Texas’ largest, left-leaning counties.| The Texas Tribune
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Saturday marked another night of demonstrations against police brutality in Austin, but tensions were heightened because of last week's shooting death of Garrett Foster, a 28-year-old protester, by a man who has not been charged.| The Texas Tribune
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The lawmakers’ absence means the lower chamber won’t have enough members present to function, stalling passage of a draft map Democrats have condemned as a political power grab.| The Texas Tribune
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The new district lines could be considered by the entire state House as soon as early next week.| The Texas Tribune
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Republicans accused Rep. Vicente Gonzalez of supporting gender transitions for children throughout the 2024 election cycle, which he said took a political toll.| The Texas Tribune
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School leaders have privately criticized a bill that would make it harder to contest their performance ratings in court. But they did not testify against it to avoid lawmakers’ ire.| The Texas Tribune
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An appeals court granted the state approval to release the ratings after doing the same for 2023 scores in April.| The Texas Tribune
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Yuriko Schumacher joined the Tribune as a news app and data visuals designer/developer in 2022 after earning a master’s degree in journalism at Northeastern University. Previously, Yuriko interned with the Wall Street Journal’s graphics team and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s data team where she produced graphics and interactive experiences. She grew up in Osaka, Japan, and used to work as a crime reporter at th…| The Texas Tribune
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Carlos Nogueras Ramos is a regional reporter based in Odessa. Carlos joined The Texas Tribune in 2023 as a corps member with Report for America. Carlos tells the stories of Texas from the vast energy-rich Permian Basin region. Before the Tribune, Carlos spent time in Philadelphia writing about local politics, including the city’s 100th mayoral election. A Spanish speaker, Carlos was one of the few Latino reporters on …| The Texas Tribune
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The three-judge panel agreed with a lower court that Ken Paxton’s office can’t question officials from Catholic Charities under oath without first filing a lawsuit.| The Texas Tribune
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The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling means that Senate Bill 4, which allows local police to arrest suspected undocumented immigrants, continues to be blocked.| The Texas Tribune
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Local officials said they have rescued or evacuated more than 200 people since the Guadalupe River flooded early Friday morning, but the fate of more than 20 girls missing from a camp remains unclear.| The Texas Tribune
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The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship to take effect in certain states in 30 days.| The Texas Tribune
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The ruling was a partial victory for President Donald Trump who has made immigration his signature issue.| The Texas Tribune
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Since El Paso joined Operation Lone Star in 2022, migrant remains discovered in the desert west of the city have increased every year, even as they have declined in every other border sector.| The Texas Tribune
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The trial of the Peruvian woman was the first test of the Trump administration’s new policy aimed at prosecuting immigrants who crossed the border illegally with military-related charges.| The Texas Tribune
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The Department of Homeland Security said the 64 people who volunteered received $1,000 and a chance to return to the U.S. legally. Advocates question whether the government will honor its promises.| The Texas Tribune
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The agency did not offer details about the types of crimes or immigration violations the majority of the people were accused of.| The Texas Tribune
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It’s the second military zone the Trump administration has created at the border, following one on the New Mexico-Mexico border, where a group of migrants were arrested on Monday.| The Texas Tribune
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The high court did not rule on the merits of the case, but allows Paxton to continue his investigation of Annunciation House.| The Texas Tribune
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Attorney General Ken Paxton has targeted similar organizations that aid migrants at the border. The lawsuit appears to be the first to focus on political speech and rules that govern nonprofits.| The Texas Tribune
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The vote comes amid a broader push by conservative Christians to infuse more religion into public schools and life.| The Texas Tribune
Texas redistricting standoff complicates preparations for March 2026 primary| The Texas Tribune
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We wanted to learn more about how to reach younger Texans through short-form video, how to build trust with folks who distrust the news and how to revamp our in-person engagement.| The Texas Tribune
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After reaching the end of their automotive lives, the batteries are being reused to provide lower-cost grid energy storage.| The Texas Tribune
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Del Rio Sheriff Joe Frank Martinez’s run for reelection provides a glimpse at how new patterns of immigration along the U.S.-Mexico border have coincided with, if not driven, changing attitudes among voters who live there.| The Texas Tribune
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The first draft of the lower chamber’s new redistricting map targets Democratic members of Congress in the Austin, Dallas and Houston metro areas and in South Texas.| The Texas Tribune
How Texans can prepare for extreme weather| The Texas Tribune
Watch a Texas Tribune conversation on meeting the state’s health care workforce needs| The Texas Tribune
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A North Texas man charged with capital murder after slipping mifepristone into his girlfriend’s food signals another attempt to rein in abortion pills.| The Texas Tribune
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The case is expected to become moot in May when the Biden administration lifts the nation’s COVID-19 emergency order. Once that order lifts, Title 42 is expected to automatically end.| The Texas Tribune
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The administration was set to end Title 42, a pandemic-era rule aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19, on Monday. A lengthy legal battle is likely.| The Texas Tribune
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Texas has led the legal fight against the Biden administration’s immigration policies, filing numerous lawsuits that have led to judges overturning or altering those policies.| The Texas Tribune
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The Biden administration is also creating a pathway to allow “qualified” Venezuelans into the country. Venezuelans have been fleeing their home country in record numbers, and the number crossing the U.S.-Mexico border has surged.| The Texas Tribune
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The number of migrant encounters at the Texas-Mexico border has climbed from 109,456 in March 2021, the month the mission began, to 116,976 in August — a failure of Abbott’s office’s stated desire to “stop this revolving door and deter others considering entering illegally.”| The Texas Tribune
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Abbott’s office said Chicago will now also become a regular drop-off location in addition to New York City and Washington, D.C.| The Texas Tribune
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The governor has ordered thousands of state troopers and National Guard members to the border since last year. Here’s what you need to know about the initiative.| The Texas Tribune
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Those who study the discipline say attacks on it are targeting any teachings that challenge and complicate dominant narratives about the country’s history and identity.| The Texas Tribune
Gov. Greg Abbott calls on Biden administration to open more COVID-19 testing sites, send more monoclonal antibody treatments| The Texas Tribune
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The women, believed to be the first to testify about an abortion ban’s impact on their pregnancy since 1973, are seeking to clarify when a medical emergency justifies an abortion.| The Texas Tribune
Federal judge bars Texas from enforcing book rating law| The Texas Tribune
Texas farmers say sewage-based fertilizer tainted with “forever chemicals” poisoned their land and killed their livestock| The Texas Tribune
Uvalde newspaper publisher turned journal entries after Robb Elementary shooting into book about town’s tragedy| The Texas Tribune
Oil and gas leaders at Tribune panel say the industry’s crucial to West Texas but pollution must be addressed| The Texas Tribune
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Senate Bill 18 would require universities to create disciplinary sanctions for students who interfere with free speech activities. It would still allow universities to put restrictions on the time, place and manner of such activities.| The Texas Tribune
Texas lawmakers pushed bills aimed at illegal immigration. Here’s what passed and what failed.| The Texas Tribune
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Flooding in Central Texas and the Texas Hill Country has killed at least 119 people, with 161 still missing in Kerr County. Rescue crews are still searching for missing people as more rain is expected. Here is a guide on how to help those affected.| The Texas Tribune
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The move infuriated Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, the powerful head of the Senate, who had called the ban among his top five bills over 17 years in the Legislature.| The Texas Tribune
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Proponents of SB 2880 have singled out Rep. Ken King, House State Affairs committee chair, for letting the bill languish.| The Texas Tribune
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Texas officials suggested the federal government could pick up construction. However, during President Trump’s first term, his administration built about one-third of what the state was able to put up in the same amount of time.| The Texas Tribune
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Within hours of a federal lawsuit targeting Texas’ policy of letting undocumented students qualify for lower public tuition rates, the 24-year-old law was no more.| The Texas Tribune
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Neither of the Legislature’s voucher bills require private schools to accept certain students, which some warn could block the neediest children from access.| The Texas Tribune
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Not long ago, developers of the massive server farms talked about powering them with wind and solar energy. Now they’re bypassing the grid and building their own gas-fired power plants on site.| The Texas Tribune
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At least four companies say they are prepared to treat the water well enough to be released into rivers in West Texas. Environmental groups say the state is moving too fast.| The Texas Tribune
