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Lt. Gov.'s selections changes tone of state agency oversight committee.

Also, floating 'drug-free zones' proposed

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Sen. Hinojosa draws comparisons between private prisons and private wars - and why both are doomed to fail the state.

The last negotiations over reforming TYC have been completed: will they mean an accountable management?

Fischer has spent time working under the Capitol dome for a trio of Dem legislators

Bill to close it dies before end of session

What happened to Coke County Juvenile Justice Center?

The fight over re-redistricting is a battle for the civil rights of minority Texans.

State government starts long, protracted, and expensive era of oversight, litigation, and structural changes to discredited agency

A bill that critics charged would have increased the pace of Texas executions dies and takes a judicial pay raise bill down with it

Border splurge still splurging

September 30, 2013. 26 photos.

An old refrain was sung yet again Tuesday in a Senate hearing – the governor goes on a veto rampage, leaving legislators (and others) to wonder why his objections to their bills didn't come up earlier

Odds and ends – mostly odds – from beneath the pink granite dome

The redistricting conference committee doesn't look like Texas, and Strayhorn gets slapped

In 2002, the Supreme Court banned the death penalty for mentally retarded defendants. Still, Texas finds a way.

Keel changes language to speed up death penalty

The Texas Senate Democrats make a stand in New Mexico against congressional redistricting.

Conference committee to close $11 billion gap

Odds and ends (mostly odds) from the 79th

Slow Train A-Comin'

Tax plan progress?

What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

House and Senate negotiators fail to compromise on bill

Following Senate vote to close SSLC, guardians turn to House for hope

Despite guardian opposition, Senate passes bill to close Austin SSLC

House and Senate in conference committee as clock ticks down

Issue added to special session call this week