BY KEVIN REYNOLDS at The Texas Tribune, NOV. 11, 2021 Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Over the past month, there has been increasing confusion over delta-8, the popular cannabis derivative that until recently could be found in vape cartridges, tinctures and candy
BY BRIAN LOPEZ NOV. 10, 2021 Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A Black North Texas principal has agreed to resign after being put on paid administrative leave in August amid accusations he was teaching and promoting critical race theory. James Whitfield chose
BY JOSHUA FECHTER at The Texas Tribune, NOV. 10, 2021 Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A statewide task force will look for ways to beef up security at Texas concerts after the deaths of eight attendees at rapper Travis Scott’s performance during
BY PATRICK SVITEK NOV. 10, 2021 Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. A 32-year-old former top staffer for the Texas Democratic Party is running for a spot on the three-person commission regulating the state’s oil and gas industry, hoping to unseat Republican incumbent
BY ROSS RAMSEY, TODD WISEMAN AND MICHAEL REY DE LEON at The Texas Tribune, NOV. 9, 2021 Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. In this edition of TribCast, Ross talks to pollsters Joshua Blank, James Henson and Daron Shaw about the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune
BY JAMES POLLARD at The Texas Tribune, NOV. 9, 2021 Texas voters are feeling down about the state and national economies and pessimistic about the country’s general direction, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll. Fifty-five percent of respondents said the national economy is worse than it was a year ago. That figure includes 25%
BY KEVIN REYNOLDS at The Texas Tribune, NOV. 8, 2021 Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Delta-8, the popular cannabis extract that was recently and suddenly outlawed in Texas, is temporarily legal again. State district court Judge Jan Soifer on Monday granted
BY CASSANDRA POLLOCK at The Texas Tribune, NOV. 8, 2021 Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday told state education officials to develop statewide standards preventing “pornography” and “other obscene content in Texas public schools,” citing two memoirs about
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