State and Local Elections

No new taxes!

Nov. 6, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Bill of the Week: Senate Bill 2065

Anti-LGBT "religious freedom" laws piling up at the Lege

May 8, 2015 News Column by Mary Tuma

Bill of the Week: Or, How Not to Pass Open Carry

How one gun group became its own worst enemy

Jan. 30, 2015 News Post by Richard Whittaker

State Blackmail Over Health Care Funding?

Is women's health funding in jeopardy?

June 20, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

Rooting Out the Causes of Wrongful Conviction

Commission would investigate wrongful convictions

March 8, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

Dissecting the Science of Death

1998 murder case will get a scientific examination

"...says it will call two forensic entomologists and an out-of-state pathologist, who in 2009 told the state that he..."

Feb. 24, 2012 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Austin's Planned Parenthood Loses State Funding

Among a host of providers losing all state funds

Aug. 26, 2011 News Post by Jordan Smith

The Four Horsemen of the Deficit

Examining the new House committees on state spending

Jan. 13, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

A Campus Full of Well-Armed Students?

May 25, 2009 Postmarks

Democrats’ Suit Demands State ‘Fix’ Voting Machines

Suit asks that machines be banned if alleged flaw cannot be fixed

Feb. 13, 2007 News Post by Lee Nichols

Pilgrim in an Unholy Land: Notes of a Lonely Cowboy

Nov. 3, 2006 Sports Post by John Razook

2006 State Races

A sampling of some of the livelier contests taking shape in the March 7 primary and the general election in November

Jan. 20, 2006 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Findings of Fact

The Dietz decision recounts at length the financial straits of the public schools

Dec. 10, 2004 News Column by Michael King

The Challenge of Judge Dietz

School finance decision puts responsibility where it's always been - on all of us

Sept. 24, 2004 News Column by Michael King

Headlines / Quote of the Week

March 29, 2024 News Feature

Mayor OK's Deal to Have State Troopers Patrol Austin Streets

And they don’t have to play by our city’s rules

March 27, 2023 News Post by Austin Sanders

Bill of the Week: Texans Take to the Capitol to Battle Discriminatory Property Bills

Who gets a piece of Texas?

March 17, 2023 News Feature by Benton Graham

In Austin, Nancy Pelosi Says She Sees No Chance of Pro-Choice Legislation Passing Current U.S. Senate

Pelosi: “I wish I could be more optimistic”

March 24, 2022 News Post by Maggie Q. Thompson

Austin Trans Youth & Allies Rally Against State “Abuse” Guidelines

About 350 gathered at the Texas Capitol to defend the human rights of trans kids and their families

March 11, 2022 News Feature by Kit O’Connell

Texas Attorney General Asks State Supreme Court to Stop Expansion of Voting by Mail

After his threats fail, Ken Paxton heads to court

May 14, 2020 News Post by Michael King

After a Month of Chaos, Abortion Care Returns to Texas

Clinics, patients, and the law get put through the ringer over care

May 1, 2020 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Local, State Health Leaders Try to Keep Up with COVID-19

Six known cases in Travis County but actual number likely higher

March 16, 2020 News Post by Margaret Nicklas

Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas Lives Up to Its Title

Stephen Harrigan chronicles the Lone Star State’s last 500 years

Feb. 28, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Senate Confirms Abbott's Nominee for State Office of Administrative Hearings Chief

Governor's list has hundreds of unconfirmed "holdover" officials

May 2, 2019 News Post by Michael King

Point Austin: Disorder in the Court … of Appeals

Triana/Toth race raising unusual political dust

"...Jay Root, Texas Tribune, March 2). Backed by copious out-of-state money, Toth then won the GOP run-off...."

Sept. 28, 2018 News Column by Michael King

Groups File Expansive Suit to Challenge Dozens of Abortion Restrictions

Lawsuit filed Thursday in Austin federal court

June 14, 2018 News Post by Mary Tuma

State Board of Education Evolves

A rare bit of good news out of the SBOE

April 28, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Transgender Students and Parents Say the State Is Putting Children in Danger

Is Texas' refusal to implement a national mandate state-sponsored bullying?

Sept. 9, 2016 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Death Watch: Executing Texas' Law of Parties

Jeff Wood never killed anybody; Robert Pruett may not have either. Why does the state want to put them both to death?

Aug. 12, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Point Austin: The Machinery of Death

Supreme Court quibbles about drugs and avoids the larger ethical issue

July 10, 2015 News Column by Michael King

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