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Texas parents face a frightening lack of information on coronavirus risks in child care centers
With reported coronavirus cases in Texas child care facilities rising quickly, parents face terrifying uncertainty as they try to decide whether to entrust their children to child care centers.
Austin’s homeless residents consider Abbott’s camp helpful but say his tweets still stigmatize them
Homeless Austin residents say life at the shelter in the southeast Austin neighborhood of Montopolis is an improvement for them — but still an incomplete solution to life without steady shelter. Eddie Gaspar/The Texas Tribune As the governor latches on to violent incidents to criticize Austin city leaders, people experiencing homelessness say he’s painting them with […]
Analysis: In 2020’s Texas legislative elections, competition is tricky business
Special interest groups and their lobbyists don't like to campaign against incumbent legislators, for fear they'll suffer if those incumbents return for another session. That "friendly incumbent" policy has spread to lawmakers themselves.
Analysis: Fort Bend’s special election was just the first battle of the 2020 war between Texas Democrats and Republicans
The Republican elation and Democratic misery over this week's special election in Fort Bend County is just the first wave of the 2020 election year. They have dozens of battles ahead of them.
Texas officials say all four suspected coronavirus cases tested negative
Health officials said Monday that there were no confirmed cases in the state.
Republican Gary Gates handily beats Democrat Eliz Markowitz in Texas House District 28 runoff
Gary Gates greets the crowd during his election night watch party at Gallery Furniture in Richmond on Tuesday. Annie Mulligan for The Texas Tribune Democrats had hoped the race would build momentum for their push to take control of the Texas House in November. The Houston-area contest garnered national attention and overshadowed two other special election […]
Supreme Court allows Trump administration to proceed with immigration rules
The rules establish new criteria for who can be considered to be dependent on the U.S. government for benefits and thus ineligible for green cards and a path to U.S. citizenship.
Mission Transition: Thank you!
Mission Transition would like to extend a special thanks to those who helped support our veterans and first responders.
Meet the Texas-based church security business training worshippers to fight back in mass shootings
A member of a church security team fires at a target at a shooting range in Krugerville. Various church security teams are training for active shooter situations with the National Organization of Church Security and Safety Management. Leslie Boorhem-Stephenson for The Texas Tribune Texas has seen two mass shootings in churches in three years, which has […]
New campaign finance reports help crystallize fight for state House majority
Democrats are effectively nine seats away from the majority in the Texas House, a major prize ahead of the 2021 redistricting process. Austin Price for The Texas Tribune The reports, which were due Wednesday, provide the first fundraising checkpoint since the candidate fields were finalized last month. By Patrick Svitek , The Texas Tribune. The fight […]
Do you plan to vote in Texas’ November elections? The time to register is now
People stand in line to vote for the primaries at the Flawn Academic Center on the University of Texas campus on March 1, 2016. Image credit: Shelby Tauber for The Texas Tribune Texans hoping to participate in the Nov. 5 election have until Oct. 7 to register to vote. By LELVIA LIMÓN, The Texas Tribune. […]
