Texas House Rejects Education Cuts
The Texas House has voted against a budget bill that slashes $4 billion from public education, throwing the special session into disarray a day before its expected conclusion.
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The Texas House has voted against a budget bill that slashes $4 billion from public education, throwing the special session into disarray a day before its expected conclusion.
Former Texas Secretary of State Roger Williams has dropped his U.S. Senate bid and is running for a new North Texas congressional seat.
Dallas County commissioners are scheduled to meet as usual this morning, one day after the FBI searched the office of a six-term commissioner, his top assistant and the home and office of a political consultant.
The Texas Legislature is expected to take up two essential items of the special session. The House and Senate are expected to make final votes on a fiscal matters bill that will maintain school funding and revamp a hurricane insurance program.
The Texas House shook off its previous malaise and sped through key legislation on Monday, approving major budget, education-funding and health care reform bills despite at-times heated debate over cutting schools to the bone.
Federal officials are executing a search warrant at Price's main office, located in the 6th Floor Book Depository in downtown Dallas. Federal investigators have also been dispatched to Price's home and other locations.
Social media may be making waves in the national political landscape, but the trend has yet to reach Dallas, where former mayoral candidates say popular websites like Facebook and Twitter didn't make much of a difference in the recent election.
A Texas Senate committee has passed a weakened version of a bill criminalizing intrusive security pat-downs at airports, angering many of the people who showed up to support it.
After failing to make quorum two days last week, the Texas House is expected to finally get back to work on Monday, with a lot of things to do.
Former Pizza Hut CEO Mike Rawlings will be sworn in as the new Dallas Mayor in a ceremony being held on Monday morning.
State officials overseeing an HIV medication program will seek ways to contain costs after the program failed to get money from the Legislature to make up a projected $19.2 million shortfall.
Texas lawmakers started the year promising to make hard choices and not 'kick the can' down the road. But guess what happened.
Despite needing to pass important bills during the Special Legislative Session, dozens of state lawmakers decided to start their weekend early.
U.S. Rep. Joe Barton of Texas planned to introduce a federal bill Friday to legalize online poker, hoping to pull the estimated $6 billion industry out of the shadows at a time when its top operators face serious legal troubles.
Terri Hodge was caught up in the massive Dallas City Hall corruption scandal, and it cost her a position as a State Representative in Dallas.
