District 9 Council Member Kathie Tovo is calling for “reasonable gun regulations” after a shootout in the East 6 thStreet bar distrct last night resulted in the death of a 17-year-old Black male.
Tovo, who represents the area, said that the shootout also underscores the importance of an ongoing Austin…
Huffines: “I’m going to make sure we stop all inbound commercial traffic from Mexico.”
Don Huffines, a Republican candidate for Texas governor, is campaigning on a platform that includes cutting off vital commercial flows across the Texas-Mexico border, a move that he says would pressure Mexico to stop migrants from coming to the border.
Trade through the Texas-Mexico border is valued at $400 billion…
The Republican leader of the Texas House of Representatives says he opposes revising the election law passed in August, Senate Bill 1.
Speaker Dade Phelan issued a statement Thursday night after Governor Greg Abbott added to an item to the agenda of the third special session, asking the legislature to…
Two possible workarounds to HB 1900 would allow Austin Progressives to continue to turn the screws on a police budget that they consider out of control.
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The Texas Legislature passed a law in May that compelled the Austin City Council to fully restore the police budget that it had cut in 2020. …
Austin City Manager Spencer Cronk yesterday named Interim Police Chief Joseph Chacon as the new permanent chief of the Austin Police Department, a decision that was immediately criticized by the Austin Police union.
“After hearing from so many of you, and following an extensive and rigorous recruitment process, I’m confident…
Interim Austin Police Chief Joe Chacon says there are three main drivers behind the recent spike in homicides in Austin, which surpassed the city’s 1984 record high over the September 11 weekend.
In a teleconference with journalists Monday, September 13, Chacon implicitly criticized the city council for cutting police staffing…
The U.S. Supreme Court has denied an emergency appeal from Texas abortion providers, leaving in place a Texas law that took effect Wednesday banning abortions after about six weeks. Texas law previously allowed for abortions as late as 20 weeks.
The ruling came late Wednesday night on the court’s so-called…
A bill that prompted a weeks-long Democratic walkout from the Texas House of Representatives in July and August has passed the legislature.
Republican bill author Bryan Hughes, a senator from the Tyler area, says the bill will make it “easy to vote, hard to cheat,” while Democrats argue that it…
A judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas has ordered the Biden Administration to reverse itself after it rescinded a funding agreement, known as a Medicaid 1115 waiver, which had been negotiated under the Trump Administration.
The 1115 waiver reimburses hospitals for the uncompensated care…
By Daniel Van Oudenaren
The Texas House of Representatives could soon get into uncharted legal territory over arrest warrants issued for missing Democrats, some of whom have returned to Texas from Washington, DC, thus putting them within reach of state law enforcement.
Under the state constitution, the House is given…
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