Ana Reyes got involved in politics in her Texas hometown of Farmers Branch after the all-white City Council passed a law making it illegal to rent hom...
They fought the law, and they won. The Texas activist organization known as Librotraficante celebrated a victory last week over state lawmakers th...
San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro has been re-elected to a third term. The San Antonio Express-News reports that Castro received 66.5 percent of the ...
By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON, May 5 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will travel on Thursday to Austin, Texas, the first stop in a ...
The Texas Legislature is changing its tune on immigration. While acrimonious debates over voter ID and “sanctuary cities” grabbed headlines du...
Every morning, people in Texas politics stand in front of their sinks, brushing their teeth, staring at someone they think could someday be the presid...
Mayor Julián Castro is on his way to Austin. This wasn’t always part of the plan, or so I’m told. Castro was originally scheduled to spend the da...
The chief oil and gas regulator in Texas tweeted a photo of a noose along with the names of the 16 Republican United States senators who voted to open...
Immigration reform is the right thing to do, the fiscally responsible thing to do, and the humanitarian thing to do. Based on the role that immigrants have played in the history of our country, it is also the American thing to do.
As Bird and Brown mount a new Texas revolution, local Democrats lack Richards' star power, fundraising ability, and -- perhaps most of all -- her political instincts.
Amid what members say are legislative attacks on academic freedom, the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies' conference got under way ...
My state has always been a larger than life, much caricatured place, and most Texans take it all in good humor. Texas' problem, though, is that over the last decade, the state and its leaders have taken a dark turn. Texas has been pulled so far to the right that reasonable voices are seldom heard.
Talking about her demanding and usually disapproving mother, Holland Taylor's Ann Richards remembers the old dame saying, "If we rest, we rust." Well, Richards fans and those who should be, there's no resting and no rusting here.
Is it too much to ask that those who are attempting to destroy public science education in Texas and beyond at least be consistent? Unfortunately, the latest turn of events in Texas means that even consistency has become a victim.
Since 1968, the state has now lost six straight lawsuits brought by school districts that have argued successfully that their funding is unconstitutionally inadequate and unequal.
A newly elected Republican state legislator in Texas has proposed legislation making it illegal to enforce a federal gun ban in the state. State R...
“For anyone who is a fan of limited government, for anyone who is a fiscal conservative and economic conservative, November 6, 2012, was an ugly, ug...
By Corrie MacLaggan AUSTIN, Texas, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Texas Governor Rick Perry called on Thursday for tax relief to be a priority for...
Pregnant women in the Crossroads seeking an abortion may encounter stricter guidelines from their doctors if a proposed bill is passed in the Texas Le...
Not only will a blue Texas make a Republican president a near-impossibility, but when Texas Democrats do win, then the Republicans in Austin will have to write columns about how their party will make a comeback.
Jeffrey Boyd will become the newest Texas Supreme Court justice, an appointment that scrunches the foreheads of Rick Perry critics who think it odd th...
Step 1: Take advantage of nepotism to get elected to Congress. Step 2: Be corrupt. Step 3: Go into a deep depression when you're caught for being corrupt. Step 4: Offer to resign, but only on the condition that you get disability pay because of the depression you've suffered after you got caught being corrupt.
AUSTIN, Texas — George P. Bush's father has issued a fundraising letter asking donors to open their pocketbooks because his son "is considering"...
Republicans have been pummeling Democrats for more than a decade. There's no rule saying we have to hold ourselves down for them.
AUSTIN, Texas -- George P. Bush, a rising star among Hispanic conservatives and the grandson of one president and nephew of another, has taken the fir...
