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The recent retirement of Justice Eva Guzman, the second-longest serving member of the Texas Supreme Court, presents an opportunity for Gov. Greg Abbott to...

By Joyce Winslow Texans grit and self-reliance failed them in February’s Great Freeze. Left with just the grit of burst pipes, faucets running brown if running at all and no heat, even the toughest felt powerless. Once upon a time it may have seemed a good idea to set up an independent electric grid to avoid what Texans saw as an iron cage of federal regulations — which seem to have better protected residents of neighboring states. But now Governor Greg Abbott expects Texans, even mothers...

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks Fort Worth, Texas, business owner Judy Neal how she'll handle the state's newly loosened coronavirus restrictions in her store.

Why are the rest of the country's taxpaying citizens again being asked to pay for Texans' low-tax negligence?