Government
Abbott asks legislature to develop recommendations on school safety(The Center Square) – Gov. Greg Abbott is asking the legislature to develop recommendations for school safety and other issues. He's also directed the Texas School Safety Center (TxSCC) to… Read More
Culture
Cruz: We must not react to evil by abandoning U.S. Constitution(The Center Square) – The U.S. cannot respond to evil by abandoning the constitution, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz says. After a teenager shot and killed two teachers and 19 children… Read More
Public Education
Abbott issues disaster declaration for Uvalde(The Center Square) – Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a disaster declaration for the city of Uvalde after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School. He also allocated $5 million… Read More
Public Education
Austin residents brace for higher property taxes as school enrollment declines(The Center Square) – Austin Independent School District, the largest taxing authority in Travis County, recently commiserated with local homeowners regarding rising property taxes that will fund its schools. Earlier… Read More
National
Texas border towns fear massive new surge in illegal crossings(The Center Square) – As many as 100,000 migrants are waiting in Mexico to cross into the U.S. any day now, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott warned Monday as officials await… Read More
National
Texas launches operations center to oversee 15-agency effort to thwart illegal immigration(The Center Square) – Gov. Greg Abbott is launching the Joint Border Security Operations Center to oversee a 15-agency effort to thwart illegal immigration funded by Texas taxpayers. Texas shares… Read More
Public Education
School board president sued, accused of ‘tyranny’ for silencing and ejecting parents from meetingsFights over what parents can say during school board meetings – or whether they can say anything at all – are becoming commonplace. Some parents, feeling unfairly and even unlawfully… Read More
Public Education
Texas school may have illegally pushed vote on billion-dollar school bond, revealing common problems with how bond issues workA Texas public school district is under investigation for what Gov. Greg Abbott calls a “likely crime” – school bond electioneering. School officials may have pressured Northside Independent School District… Read More
National
Texas sheriff: Mexican cartels preparing for massive human smuggling operation(The Center Square) – As the Biden administration moves forward with ending Title 42 enforcement, Mexican cartels and their operatives are making preparations to move a massive amount of illegal… Read More
National
Abbott signs agreement with 4th Mexican governor as 4th bus of illegal immigrants arrives in D.C.(The Center Square) – Gov. Greg Abbott late Friday signed his fourth memorandum of understanding in three days with another Mexican governor as part of his commitment to secure Texas’ shared… Read More
National
Second bus of illegal immigrants arrives at U.S. Capitol from Texas(The Center Square) – A second bus carrying immigrants who illegally crossed the border in Texas arrived near the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. early Thursday. The first group of… Read More
National
NC congressman introduces bill to restart building border wall(The Center Square) – A North Carolina congressman has introduced a bill to require the federal government to restart rebuilding the border wall, which was halted by President Joe Biden. Read More
National
States fight Biden’s prison-to-streets pipeline for illegal immigrant convictsThe Biden administration has allowed a more than eleven-fold increase in the number of illegal immigrant offenders let out of Texas prisons and into the general U.S. population, despite federal… Read More
Public Education
Elementary students told to keep LGBTQIA+ discussions hidden from parents, contrary to lawA Texas school district is celebrating its own “Pride Week,” including small group activities that students – from pre-K through 5th grade – have been told to keep secret. Austin… Read More
National
Popular Whataburger franchise plans for more restaurants in Republic, Ozark and SpringfieldThanks to Patrick Mahomes, Missourians will soon see the incredibly popular Whataburger restaurants spread throughout the western and southern portions of the state. In 2018, the… Read More
National, State Government
Texas and Missouri team up to fight illegal immigration, Biden administration(The Center Square) – The attorneys general of Texas and Missouri have been what some may consider an unlikely pair from non-neighboring states, teaming up on lawsuits against the Biden… Read More
National
AG Schmidt: Kansas sees large spikes in fentanyl seizures, drug overdoses(The Center Square) – Record amounts of fentanyl and other drugs are being seized in Kansas after they’ve made their way north from Mexico and the state’s attorney general, Derek… Read More
National
Former Border Patrol chief: Texas doing federal government’s job, holding line at U.S. border(The Center Square) – The number of illegal immigrants apprehended at the southern border by the Texas Department of Public Safety in the past year has somewhat mitigated what is… Read More
National
British authorities apprehend two in connection to Texas hostage situation(The Center Square) – Less than 24 hours after an 11-hour-hour hostage situation at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, which ended with an armed gunman dead and hostages escaping,… Read More
National
Abbott debuts Texas border wall construction in Rio Grande City(The Center Square) – Gov. Greg Abbott has debuted the construction of a part of the Texas border wall in Rio Grande City six months after he… Read More