Sylvester Turner carried into Texas Capitol to lie in state as tributes pour out
State lawmakers offered up tributes to the late Houston mayor, congressman and former Texas House member ahead of his memorial on Saturday.
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Meet Rep. Helen Kerwin, a grandmother who ran for North Texas’s HD 58 and won
Rep. Helen Kerwin, 77, was elected in November to represent District 58 in the Texas House. While Kerwin was born in ...
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Meet Rep. Helen Kerwin, a grandmother of nine and freshman North Texas lawmaker for HD 58
Rep. Helen Kerwin, 77, was elected in November to represent District 58 in the Texas House. While Kerwin was born in ...
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Texas lawmakers will debate saving the state’s water supply after key legislation is introduced
The state House and Senate have similar proposals to solve the state's water crisis, but there are stark differences on how ...
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Texas gives Elon Musk’s SpaceX $17.3M to expand manufacturing site near Austin
Starlink, a division of Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX that provides satellite internet service across the world, received ...
Following Trump’s lead, Gov. Abbott pushes state agencies to end telework
The directive comes although some state agencies have downsized their office spaces after the pandemic forced many employees ...
Austin police opposing bill that would give DPS control of Congress Avenue downtown
HB 470 would expand the "Capitol Complex," giving the Texas Department of Public Safety jurisdiction over 18 blocks around ...
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Orator, conscience, advocate: State lawmakers honor Sylvester Turner with bipartisan accolades in Capitol ceremony
Turner, who spent nearly three decades in the Texas House and died last week, was remembered as a passionate Democrat ...
APD Chief focuses on building immigrant trust amid TX AG crackdown on sanctuary policies
As Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton intensifies scrutiny on cities with so-called "sanctuary policies," Austin Police Chief ...
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The Education Department is being cut in half. Here's what's being lost
The U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, Institute of Education Sciences and Office of Federal Student Aid ...
Florida lawmakers honor the ‘trailblazing legacy’ of late state Sen. Geraldine Thompson
In a state so often bitterly divided along partisan lines, Democrats and Republicans alike were moved to tears as they ...
Why is an Elon Musk-backed PAC running an ad against Republican state legislators?
A group backed by Elon Musk is running ads targeting conservative Republican legislators in several states over their support of a federal drug pricing program. No one seems ...