Texas House colleagues celebrate life of Sylvester Turner in chamber where he once served
Sylvester Turner served as Houston mayor and in Congress after serving 27 years in the Texas House. He died March 4.
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Orator, conscience, advocate: State lawmakers honor Sylvester Turner with bipartisan accolades in Capitol ceremony
Turner, who spent nearly three decades in the Texas House and died last week, was remembered as a passionate Democrat ...
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Texas lawmakers will debate saving the state’s water supply after key legislation is introduced
The state House and Senate have similar proposals to solve the state's water crisis, but there are stark differences on how ...
Sylvester Turner carried into Texas Capitol to lie in state as tributes pour out
State lawmakers offered up tributes to the late Houston mayor, congressman and former Texas House member ahead of his memorial on Saturday.
In Texas, private firms cash in on property tax late fees, piling debt onto homeowners
Texans who fall behind on property taxes face one of nation's most punitive systems, where private companies can tack up to ...
Toxic gas probe in Texas wins business reporting awards for Houston Chronicle and Examination colab
The Houston Chronicle has won two awards from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing for exposing the impacts of toxic gas released by Texas oil companies and the inaction of ...
The National Observer: Real Estate: Federal government's potential portfolio sell-off raises eyebrows
While real estate reductions by the federal government aren't unprecedented, the approach, magnitude and speed with which the ...
The story of Chinese Americans who call Texas home
Some trace back for generations in the Lone Star State, which today has the third-largest Asian American population in the US ...
Reigning in Texas colleges with more oversight focus of priority bill
Faculty senates would have limited authority while governor-appointed boards would have more power, according to the Texas ...
Bizarre journey of British pub sign that ended up in a Texas bar 4,800 miles away
An inn sign from a lost British pub showing a legendary brewery worker has found a home at a craft beer emporium in Texas.
'Transformational': Texas Senate Bill 568 would overhaul special education funding
The bill "will lead to stunningly better outcomes for a number of our 775,000 school children with disabilities," the proposal's author said.
These were Texas’ fastest-growing counties in 2024, according to new Census Bureau estimates
The state’s overall population grew by 562,941 people during July 2023 and July 2024, but some counties grew at much faster rates than others.