Lawmakers Call For Eliminating Driver Surcharges
The current program requires Texas drivers charged with offenses including DWI and no insurance to pay surcharges.
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The current program requires Texas drivers charged with offenses including DWI and no insurance to pay surcharges.
Plans for teacher layoffs are stirring panic from Houston to far West Texas.
If you sit in traffic, it shouldn't surprise you that North Texas is among the most clogged regions of the country. Now, some local leaders say there's a new opportunity to widen and unclog some area highways. But they need to act fast, before a window of opportunity closes.
Only 61 percent of Texas students graduated in 2009. One organization has found a way to improve that statistic, but there's concern state funding may decrease because of the budget crisis.
"Save our teachers! Save our teachers!" The chant echoed off the concrete parking lot of Lincoln High School.
The Texas House has given tentative approval to a bill requiring sonograms before abortions.
Candidates still have over a week to file for office, but three top choices have campaigns already running.
Outside the rhetoric-filled hallways of the state capitol, students, parents and school administrators struggled to have their voices heard.
The Texas comptroller told the House Appropriations Committee on Thursday that she can't imagine solving the current budget crisis through cuts alone.
Police officers would be allowed to enforce federal immigration laws under a plan working its way through the Texas Legislature.
Several schools in Tarrant County will take their case for education funding to Austin on Thursday.
The Texas House will begin debate on a resolution calling for a federal balanced budget amendment.
Interim Mayor Dwaine Caraway presided over his first Dallas City Council meeting today. It was a briefing session marked by a review of a major rehabilitation plan for West Dallas, as well as sharp words from one of his critics.
City officials unveiled a project Wednesday that they say would steer development in a 64-acre area of West Dallas for many years to come.
The Texas House is expected to vote on a bill that would require doctors to perform a sonogram before providing an abortion.
