Author: SHANNON NAJMABADI
A swelling Texas treasury gives 2022 hopefuls room for big ideas
According to the state comptroller, Texas is heading into an election year with projections that more than $24 billion will be left over at the end of the current budget, in spite of a pandemic that began with fears that the economy might be hit as hard as public health. That projected pile of cash […]
Population changes the recipe for Texas’ political soup
Political people often compare Texas election maps to a state-shaped bowl of tomato soup with blueberries sprinkled in it. Most of the state in those post-election illustrations is Republican red, with smaller areas — the big cities and, increasingly, their suburbs — colored Democratic blue. In the last 10 years, the blueberries in the tomato […]
New laws reflect Republican lawmakers’ focus on their right flank
Texans woke up Wednesday in a state where it’s legal to carry a gun if you are neither licensed nor trained and where enforcement of anti-abortion laws has been crowdsourced to citizen bounty hunters who can get up to $10,000 for turning in anyone they catch helping someone obtain an abortion. Under the guise of […]