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Austin Airport Agrees to a Massive Settlement to Get Its Expansion Underway

How Paxton’s Trumpian Antics Led to Impeachment

Legislature Narrowly Averts Funneling Public School Funds to Private Schools

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Assessing the Damage the 88th Texas Legislature Has Done So Far ... and Bracing for What's Yet to Come

When the Lege hits home

by Maggie Q. Thompson

Legislature Narrowly Averts Funneling Public School Funds to Private Schools

How schools fared in Texas' 88th legislative session

by Brant Bingamon

Legislature Ensures More Gas Production in Texas, Less Renewables Assessing this session's environmental impact

Texas Legislature Failed to Kill Police Oversight Statewide (for Now) Senate Bill 2209 would have crushed Austin's oversight act

How Bipartisan Efforts to Increase Housing Supply Died This Session Mourning the dead bills that could've addressed housing shortages

Republicans Didn’t Pass Priority Bills, but Succeeded in Punishing Trans Texans At least they couldn't pass proposed "Don't Say Gay" legislation

Texas GOP Still Set on Sending Vigilantes to the Border Frightening border bills haven't passed yet, but might in special session

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Ascension Union Initiates Largest Nurses’ Strike in Texas History

Patient care continues to deteriorate amid staffing crisis

Lina Fisher • Jun. 1, 2023

Austin Airport Agrees to a Massive Settlement to Get Its Expansion Underway

Bye bye South Terminal

Maggie Q. Thompson • Jun. 1, 2023

Republicans Didn’t Pass Priority Bills, but Succeeded in Punishing Trans Texans

At least they couldn't pass proposed "Don't Say Gay" legislation

Brant Bingamon • Jun. 2 issue

Texas GOP Still Set on Sending Vigilantes to the Border

Frightening border bills haven't passed yet, but might in special session

Benton Graham • Jun. 2 issue

Silver Linings at the Lege: Texas Moms to Get 12 Months of Free Health Care

And other good news from this legislative session

Maggie Q. Thompson, Jun. 2 issue

Public Notice: Housekeeping News

Plus trying to slow the Convention Center expansion, code changes

Nick Barbaro, Jun. 2 issue

Headlines / Quote of the Week

Jun. 2 issue

How Texas A.G. Paxton’s Trumpian Antics Led to Impeachment

Sealing his fate

Brant Bingamon, Jun. 2 issue

Voters Want Strong Police Oversight. Will the City Deliver It?

Oversight undermined

Austin Sanders, May 26 issue

Public Notice: Your Government at Work

The Texas Legislature and “the disturbing category of ‘Who Knows?’”

Nick Barbaro, May 26 issue

Headlines / Quote of the Week

May 26 issue

One of Austin’s Most Important Police Trials Is Off to a Strange Start

Curiouser and curiouser

Austin Sanders, May 26 issue

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