North Texas colleges want to make transferring between schools easier, saving saving students time and money
Fri, 26 Jul 2024 13:00:45 -0500
Thousands of Texas transfer students each year don’t get credit for some community college courses. The partnership seeks to address that.
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/16754322/dallas-north-texas-transfer-college-students
Search the newly updated Government Salaries Explorer
Fri, 26 Jul 2024 05:00:00 -0500
The Texas Tribune’s database of Texas state employees’ compensation is updated to represent salaries as of July 1.
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/7382318/
I started reporting on the dearth of reproductive health care. Then I had my own emergency.
Fri, 26 Jul 2024 05:00:00 -0500
Texas Tribune journalist Jayme Lozano Carver has written about health care for years. Most recently, she reported on how little access there is for women and new moms in the Texas Panhandle.
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/16754114/texas-reproductive-health-care-access
Texas teachers stand behind Kamala Harris after years of feeling targeted, neglected by Republicans
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 18:21:47 -0500
At a gathering for teachers in Houston, educators saw Harris as a potential ally at a time when conservatives push for changes in Texas classrooms.
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/16753596/texas-teachers-kamala-harris-houston
Texas sues Biden administration over confidential contraception for teens
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 18:03:27 -0500
Federal clinics in Texas are already required to get parental permission to prescribe birth control after a 2022 court ruling.
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/16753565/texas-paxton-biden-parental-consent-contraception
CenterPoint CEO promises improvements as Texas scrutinizes company’s Beryl response
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 14:23:43 -0500
Jason Wells told regulators the company will launch a new outage tracker by Aug. 1. It will also trim more tree limbs near power lines and hire an executive to focus on emergency response.
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/16753427/texas-centerpoint-beryl-outages-company-plan
Kamala Harris’ historic candidacy energizes Texas’ Black and Indian American voters
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 12:24:52 -0500
Black and Asian American voters collectively made up just 15% of the turnout in Texas’ 2020 and 2022 elections, according to exit polls.
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/16753343/kamala-harris-texas-voters-black-indian-asian
Texans, what are your thoughts on the 2024 election?
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 12:00:00 -0500
We want to hear from all Texans – even if you can’t vote or are not sure you want to vote.
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/16753335/texas-2024-election-voting
In the Texas Panhandle, nurses make home visits to new moms in need
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 11:00:00 -0500
Local leaders of the Nurse-Family Partnership hope they can secure money to expand the program to the region’s rural areas.
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/16753311/texas-nurse-family-partnership-home-visits
Former Uvalde officer pleads not guilty to criminal charges over delayed mass shooting response
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 08:26:33 -0500
Adrian Gonzalez appeared in court Thursday after being indicted over law enforcement’s delay in confronting a gunman. Pete Arredondo previously pleaded not guilty.
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/16753182/uvalde-school-shooting-officers-criminal-charges
CenterPoint draws state ire after Hurricane Beryl power outages. Here’s what you need to know.
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 05:00:00 -0500
Following Hurricane Beryl’s large-scale power outages, state officials launched an investigation and legislative hearings to scrutinize CenterPoint’s response after the storm.
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/16753089/texas-power-grid-puc-centerpoint-hurricane-beryl
U.S Rep. Lloyd Doggett took a political risk by calling on Biden to step aside. It worked.
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 05:00:00 -0500
In a Q&A, Doggett, 77, discusses his role in the recent chain of historic events and his feelings about where the party goes from here.
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/16753090/lloyd-doggett-joe-biden-kamala-harris-texas
El Paso County officials say it’s time the state pays for Operation Lone Star arrests
Thu, 25 Jul 2024 05:00:00 -0500
County officials issued a disaster declaration Tuesday, saying the state’s mass arrests at the border have cost the county millions of dollars and overwhelmed its criminal justice system.
National effort to connect rural students with colleges expands to Texas
Wed, 24 Jul 2024 19:59:16 -0500
Southern Methodist University and the University of Texas at Austin will get funds to visit more students in rural communities and small towns.
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/16752553/stars-rural-students-college-texas-ut-smu
51 Texas school districts are not complying with state ban on hairstyle discrimination, ACLU says
Wed, 24 Jul 2024 17:51:49 -0500
At least one school district, Tolar ISD in North Texas, told the ACLU it would update its policies to comply with the CROWN Act.
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/16752476/texas-aclu-school-districts-crown-act
Texas city strips funding for monthly art event over drag show
Wed, 24 Jul 2024 17:02:36 -0500
The arts center that organizes the monthly art walk, which draws 20,000 to downtown Lubbock, said the drag show happened at an off-site location and had no association with it.
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/16752461/lubbock-texas-drag-show-arts-trail-funding
Texas attorney general can’t question Catholic Charities director over migrant services, court says
Wed, 24 Jul 2024 14:58:01 -0500
Wednesday’s ruling is the second time a Texas judge has ruled against the attorney general for investigating shelters helping migrants.
Big price cut ordered for inmate phone and video calls across Texas
Wed, 24 Jul 2024 05:00:00 -0500
A new FCC rule means a cap of 5 cents a minute for most inmate phone and video calls in the state of Texas.
https://feeds.texastribune.org/link/16799/16752026/texas-prison-jail-phone-video-calls-price-cut
Allred and Texas Dems bundle resources across the ballot
Wed, 24 Jul 2024 05:00:00 -0500
The statewide Democratic project will allow candidates across the ballot to share data and coordinate on grassroots operations.
Houston candidates pitching themselves to replace the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee on November ballot
Tue, 23 Jul 2024 16:45:57 -0500
At least three Democrats are considering bids for the Houston-area seat. But Texas Democratic officials — not voters — will decide who will be on the November ballot.