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In 2021, white men are still overrepresented in the Texas Legislature By Alexa Ura, Texas Tribune, Carla Astudillo and Texas Tribune Published  In a perennial takeaway of The Texas Tribune’s demographic analysis, the Texas Legislature remains mostly white and male. When the 2021 legislative session begins Tuesday, 3 of every 5 lawmakers in the state House and Senate will be white, although white Texans make up just 41% of the states population. That’s largely a function of the...

Jan. 11, 2021 In a perennial takeaway of The Texas Tribune’s demographic analysis, the Texas Legislature remains mostly white and male. When the 2021 legislative session begins Tuesday, 61% of lawmakers in the state House and Senate will be white, although white Texans make up just 41% of the states population. That’s largely a function of the Republican dominance of the Capitol and the dearth of diversity in the party’s ranks. All but five of the 100 Republicans in the Legislature are no...

EVERY map-maker who ever put Christmas Island in its rightful position in the Indian Ocean must have wondered how it got its name. But at least there is an answer. In contrast, Hampshire is full of names that have no obvious meanings and their origins have to be teased out of old documents and other sources. There are no prizes for places such as Portsmouth, Hedge End, Freshwater, Weston, and Easton – and Christmas Island, by the way, got its name in 1643, when a captain of the East India...

Gavin Walshs cancer diagnosis in 2010 at the age of 46 understandably came as a shock. Living in Florida at the time with his wife Ellen, the news that he had prostate cancer hit him like a ton of bricks. The first step was blood tests. One specific test is a prostate-specific antigen (or more commonly referred to by its acronym, PSA). PSA is a protein produced by both malignant and non-malignant tissue in the prostate gland. However, these tests can yield a false/positive result. That initial ...

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