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Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. This fall, Texas public schools will be subjected to random inspections to detect weak access points in the wake of the Uvalde school shooting — but a state school safety …
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Linda Goler Blount, president and CEO of the Black Women’s Health Imperative, says she grew up with the ability to make choices about her body because her mother’s generation fought …
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. UVALDE — At an emotional City Council meeting Thursday, families of the Robb Elementary School shooting victims demanded the mayor release details from the investigation. Mayor Don McLaughlin told them …
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Last fall, faculty at the Seguin Independent School District received an email no school district wants to read: A student was having suicidal thoughts and the district had to intervene. …
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. AURORA, Colo. — Texas nurses Jessica Phillips and Keshia McDonald stared at each other in disbelief when they heard the news that abortions would soon be outlawed in the state. …
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Since 2005, Texas has lost more newspaper journalists per capita than any state other than California and New Jersey, according to a new national study on the state of local …
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. LAS CRUCES, N.M. — Shannon Brewer has lived in Mississippi her entire life, but when she realized the U.S. Supreme Court was about to upend her life’s work, she didn’t …
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. SAN ANTONIO — Dozens of people stood in a circle in Pearsall Park on Tuesday with their cell phone lights playing the role of candles. Some gave speeches on a …
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. In April, Gov. Greg Abbott ordered state police to inspect every commercial vehicle entering Texas through a port of entry, saying the painful step was needed because the Biden administration …
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The 2022 Texas Tribune Festival is less than three months away, but to date we had announced only 60 speakers out of an expected 300. Of course they’re pretty terrific: …
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. RALLS — Lloyd Arthur can run his hand through the soil at his cotton farm and know what kind of year he’s going to have. His dry, cracked field is …
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Nearly four dozen migrants were found dead in an overheated tractor trailer on an industrial road in south San Antonio Monday. Many of them had been sprinkled with steak seasoning …