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The testimony gets mighty strange at the re-redistricting trial.

Various dispatches from the anti-war movement around Austin.

Interfering with black voting rights -- it's the Lone Star way!

A report on the African-American Legislative Summit

Bush goes on a spending binge; lawmakers demand Bush ask for war permission.

Instead of all students – current and future – convicted of any drug-related crime at any point in their lives losing federal financial aid, now, only students currently in school will lose their money if convicted on a drug charge

Chapter Two: The Re-Redistricting Hearings Produce Much Heat, Little Light

Senate committee passes compromise bill on sentencing disparity

The House Judiciary Committee has voted to end the disparity between sentences for crack and powder cocaine

U.S. Sentencing Commission votes to close disparate gap between federal sentencing guidelines related to crack and powder cocaine

Millions of people across the country take to streets in response to anti-immigrant legislation

Although the U.S. House of Representatives rejected a measure that would ban the DOJ from using taxpayer money to arrest, jail, and prosecute medi-pot patients in compliance with state law, the number of reps voting in favor of the Hinchey-Rohrabacher amendment is growing. Also, the Industrial Hemp Farming Act makes its debut.

Bill would protect medical marijuana users

If Tom DeLay has his way, Austin will have no voice in Congress.

Last week Austin Congressman Lloyd Doggett took the House floor to strongly oppose the Bush administration's drumbeat for unilateral military action against Iraq.

Our readers talk back.

M.J. Hegar and Royce West seize the center

Our readers talk back.

Congress votes to appropriate more funds for Iraq war as requested by the Bush administration, without timetables for withdrawal or other constraints on occupation, other than nonbinding security "benchmarks" for Iraqi government

Second of two House Subcommittee on International Terrorism and Nonproliferation hearings held in South Texas; and Department of Homeland Security progresses with plans to militarize – and privatize – border

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

The federal redistricting trial will reverberate through national politics for years.

Doggett Opposes Funding SOA

Seeking refuge in Austin

Sandra Bland cause of death still unclear

Council members endorse bill that would fight abortion restrictions

Lone Star GOP on the losing side of shutdown fight

Lawmakers considering first review of system in decades