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Looking toward the Governor's Mansion for their lead, members of the Texas House last week killed a worthy provision that would have applied local zoning rules to public-private development projects on state land. The provision echoed the requirements...

The ongoing struggle for control of the University of Texas at Austin can play either as serious drama or farce, but whatever the interpretation, it's going to get really good now. A bill limiting the power of appointees to boards of regents of the...

Issues of transparency and ethics in government and political campaigns have received mixed reaction from the Texas Legislature this year, but they'll come up again Monday when the House considers an omnibus ethics bill. It should make for some...

Standing together as an entire delegation, the Rio Grande Valley's House members pushed through a compromise Friday that would finally establish the region's long sought medical school and a super university. The House voted unanimously to adopt a...

Headlines for Friday,  May  17,  2013 ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME: 2013 Induction Ceremony Airs Saturday The 2013 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony premieres on HBO Saturday at 9pm ET. The show will be repeated several times in coming weeks....

The Rio Grande Valley's delegation reached a compromise late Thursday on legislation that would create a regional medical school and university, likely ending a dispute over location that threatened to derail the concept. Every House and Senate member...

Gov. Rick Perry signed the Michael Morton Act into law Thursday, praising the bipartisan legislation -- passed unanimously in both houses -- for "making our system more fair and helping prevent wrongful convictions." "We are known as a law and order...

The Texas Tech System Board of Regents will meet today, May 16, and Friday, May 17, at the Tech Health Sciences Center. This will be the first Lubbock meeting for newly appointed regents John D. Esparza of Austin and Tim Lancaster of Abilene. The...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Turns out that cutting was the easy part. Now Republicans who control a majority of the state capitols in the United States face a far greater philosophical dilemma — what to do with all the money when an improving...

The Texas House has killed a provision, at the urging of Gov. Rick Perry, that would have required public-private development projects on state land to go through local zoning. State Rep. Harold Dutton, D-Houston, said he stripped out the provision...

Legislation allowing guns on college campuses bounced back to life in the Senate on Tuesday as a House-passed bill moved closer to a vote on the Senate floor with less than two weeks left in the session. The Senate Criminal Justice Committee voted 4-2...

The state's beleaguered cancer research agency edged out of the legislative doghouse Monday when budget conferees recommended restoring funding after months of controversy and an ongoing criminal investigation. The recommendation calls for spending $594...