Texas State Capitol Building in Austin. getty Texas, when it comes to governance, outperforms most states across a number of key metrics. Today, for example, Texas is home to the nation’s sixth lowest...
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School Choice Advocates Have Continued Success In 2023 After Notching Major Victories In 2022
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks after taking the oath of the office on the steps of the … [+] Arkansas Capitol Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023, in Little Rock, Ark. (AP Photo/Will Newton) Cop...
To Secure Texas’s Future, The ERCOT Grid Will Need More Of Everything
Texas Governor Greg Abbott, l, congratulates his colleague Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick as the two view the … [+] inaugural parade in downtown Austin. Abbott becomes the 48th Governor of Texas during ce...
Biden Visits Southern Border As Texas Gov. Abbott Blasts President For Arriving ‘Two Years Too Late’
Topline President Joe Biden arrived in El Paso on Sunday for his first visit to the U.S.-Mexico border, and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) greeted the president with a letter attacking his immigration pol...
Abbott And Mayorkas Spar Over Immigration As Biden Heads To Border For First Official Visit
Topline Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas sparred with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) over the Biden Administration’s handling of the border crisis, with both sides blaming each other for a l...
Biden Preparing For Record Levels Of Migrants At Southern Border—Here’s Why
Topline The Biden Administration is reportedly preparing for as many as 14,000 migrants to attempt unauthorized crossings of the southern border every day as soon as next week, when a controversial Co...
Beto’s Free Speech Comeback? After Loss In Texas Governor’s Race, O’Rourke Will Fight For The Right To Call A Pipeline Billionaire A Crook
Beto O’Rourke stumping at a ‘Keeping the Lights On’ rally in Houston on February 15, 2022, the … [+] one-year anniversary of the winter storm that crippled the state. Getty Ima...
O’Rourke Closing Gap With Texas Gov. Abbott
Topline Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) lead over Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke has shrunk to just two percentage points among Texans who definitely plan to vote in the midterms, accord...
NYC Mayor Adams Declares State Of Emergency Amid Migrant Busing Crisis
Topline New York City Mayor Eric Adams declared a state of emergency Friday as the city—as well as several other Democrat-led cities including Washington D.C.—grapple with an influx of tens of thousan...
Blonde Mystery Woman ‘Perla’ At Center Of Martha’s Vineyard Migrant Controversy
Topline Examples grow of a blonde mystery woman in San Antonio, Texas, who may have misled some of the 50 Venezuelan migrants who arrived on Martha’s Vineyard Wednesday into thinking they were going s...
Texas Now Busing Migrants To New York City—Mayor Adams Warns City Services Stretching Thin
Topline Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) announced Friday that his state is now busing migrants seeking asylum in the United States to New York City, marking an expansion of a program that’s dropped t...
Gavin Newsom’s Needling Of GOP Governors Will Be Paid For By Taxpayers
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Getty Images California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) made national news for his recent TV ad campaign encouraging Floridians to move t...
Here’s Everything That Turned Out To Not Be True
Topline Texas authorities have faced mounting criticism for offering contradicting reports and retracting key details about the timeline of the shooting that left 19 students and two teachers dead at ...
Texas Gov. Abbott Orders Schools To Check Doors Weekly Following Uvalde Shooting
Topline Texas schools must conduct weekly inspections of their facilities’ outside doors, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) told state Commissioner of Education Mike Morath on Thursday, after police reported...
Texas Governor Abbott Demands ‘Firearm Safety’ Committee After Uvalde Shooting
Topline Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) on Wednesday called for the Texas legislature to immediately convene committees to take “meaningful action” following last week’s mass shooting at a Uvalde eleme...
More Cancel NRA Convention Appearances — Here’s Who’s Going And What To Know
Topline Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) canceled his speech at the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Houston on Friday, hours after Gov. Greg Abbott (R) canceled his appearance, days after...
Elon Musk Bites The Hand That Fed Him By Bashing California And Democrats
Elon Musk moved to Texas and now appears to embrace the politics of the Republic Party and Texas Governor Greg Abbott Getty In the weeks since Tesla CEO Elon Musk began his gambit to acquire Twitter, ...
South Carolina Becomes 16th State To Ban Transgender Student Athlete Participation
Topline South Carolina banned transgender student athletes from sports that align with their gender identity in public schools and colleges Monday when Gov. Henry McMaster unceremoniously signed the b...
It Already Feels Like August In Texas, At Least Where The Grid’s Concerned
HOUSTON, TEXAS – May 13: Power-lines are shown on June 15, 2021 in Houston, Texas. The Electric … [+] Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which controls approximately 90% of the power in...
Why States Continue To Overrule Local Regulation Of Fossil Fuels
Tennessee is poised to become the latest state to preempt local regulations restricting fossil fuel … [+] usage and infrastructure. getty Like their counterparts in many other state capitals, Te...
Texas Ends Rule That Left Trucks Waiting For Hours To Cross Mexico Border
Topline After eight days, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) Friday repealed an order requiring enhanced inspections of vehicles entering the state through the Mexico border—a measure Abbott said was necessar...
Texas Gov. Abbott Says First Migrant Bus Arrives In D.C., Which White House Calls A ‘Publicity Stunt’
Topline Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) followed through Wednesday with his promise to send migrants released from federal custody near the Texas-Mexico border to Washington, D.C., in what the governor say...
Texas Court Blocks ‘Child Abuse’ Investigation For Parents Of Transgender Child
Topline A local judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked Texas’ Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) from investigating two parents who helped their child seek gender-affirming medical tr...
Greg Abbott And Beto O’Rourke Win Texas Primaries Setting Up Governor’s Race
Topline Incumbent Republican Governor Greg Abbott will face Democrat Beto O’Rourke in the Texas Gubernatorial election later this year after both were projected to win their party’s gubernatorial nomi...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Pressed Grid Operator To Keep Prices At $9,000 Per Megawatt-Hour During Crisis
Bill Magness, president and chief executive officer of Electric Reliability Council of Texas … [+] (ERCOT), speaks during the 2018 CERAWeek conference in Houston. Photographer: Aaron M. Sprecher...
ACLU Criticizes Texas Officials For Proposing ‘Child Abuse’ Investigations Into Transgender Medical Care
Topline The American Civil Liberties Union took aim Wednesday at Texas officials for framing gender-affirming medical care for transgender children as “child abuse” and urging people to re...
Kerfuffle Between Texas And BlackRock Is Not As Simple As It Seems
Larry Fink, chairman and chief executive officer of BlackRock Financial Management Inc., speaks … [+] during the One Planet Summit in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018. Photographer: ...
Texans Breathe Sighs Of Relief As ERCOT Power Grid Passes Winter Test
Young sister throwing snow ball at brother in backyard during winter weather. getty It wasn’t last year’s Winter Storm Uri, but residents all over Texas are breathing sighs of relief anyway Saturday m...
‘It’s Like Russian Weather Roulette’
Irving, Texas, Feb. 3. 2022. Getty Images It’s chilly in Texas, forecast to get down to 27 degrees in Houston and into the teens in Dallas. Some freezing rain fell today, contributing to downed power ...