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Jan 1, 2024 · Power Outages. Daniel Perry Pardon. Fentanyl Overdoses. Runoff Elections. TribFest 2024. Vouchers, border security, abortion: The issues you heard about in 2023 will continue to be hotly debated...
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Percentage Most Important Issue Facing Texas (August 2022) The Margin of Error for this Graphic is +/- 2.89% 16% 14% 10% 10% 8% 7% 5% Border security Immigration Political corruption / leadership Inflation / Rising prices Abortion Gun control / gun violence The economy 0 5 10 15 20 Source: August 2022 University of Texas/Texas Politics Project ...
Apr 29, 2022 · The state’s border with Mexico needs hard work on coherent and humane policies for immigration, commerce, education and welfare instead of angry politicking that treats the thousands of people...
- Ross Ramsey
- The Ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic
- An Insurrection, Spurred in Part by Some Texans
- The Nation’S Most Restrictive Abortion Law
- A Winter Storm That Exposed A Vulnerable Power Grid
- A once-in-a-decade Redrawing of The State’S Political Districts
- The Passing of New Voting Restrictions
- Fights Over Race and History at Schools
- A Border Wall That Lives on Beyond The Trump Administration
After a grim year of closures and death caused by the pandemic in 2020, there were moments of relief in 2021. The arrival of vaccines, which significantly reduce the risk of death and serious illness, brought hope to overworked health care workers. Some Texans started leaving their homes and catching up on lost time. Large counties briefly rolled b...
When pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol in early January, Texas politicians played a role in the attempted insurrection. Attorney General Ken Paxton told the crowd of Trump supporters in Washington, D.C., to “keep fighting” shortly before they stormed the Capitol. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz spearheaded a group of GOP senators who objected to the ce...
This year, Texas passed one of nation’s strictest abortion measures, banning the procedure before many people know they are pregnant. The law bans abortions after an ultrasound can detect what lawmakers defined as a fetal “heartbeat,” which can be as early as six weeks into pregnancy. Medical and legal experts say embryos don’t possess a heart at t...
When an unusual winter storm approached Texas in February, energy officials warned Texans that they could face temporary power outages that would last 10 to 45 minutes. What followed, instead, was catastrophe. Millions went without power for days. Half of the state’s residents faced water infrastructure problems. The storm caused billions of dollar...
Texas lawmakers redrew political maps for congressional, state Legislature and state Board of Education districts this year, in a partisan legislative process that will protect Republican strongholds while reducing the power of voters of color. This was the first time in decades that Texas lawmakers did not have to get prior approval from the feder...
Texas found itself at the center of another national news moment this summer when Democrats in the state House broke quorum during a special legislative session in order to stall and prevent the passing of a voting restrictions bill. Their impact was short-lived. While Democrats stayed away for the duration of the special session that started in Ju...
Republican lawmakers turned their attention to school libraries this year after GOP state Rep. Matt Krause launched an investigation into some of the books used by Texas school districts, particularly if they pertain to race or sexuality or “make students feel discomfort.” Some authors whose works appear on a list used by Krause say he’s targeting ...
Migrants continued to flee disaster and unrest in their home countries this year, making their way to the Texas-Mexico border. Saying he was defending the border, Abbott flooded South Texas with state troopers and Texas National Guard personnel in an unprecedented state effort to arrest migrants after they entered the country illegally. Coined Oper...
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Jan 27, 2024 · Two consecutive summers of brutal heat and drought have left some parts of Texas with notably low water supplies going into 2024. A wet year or a well-placed hurricane could quickly pull these...
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