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The Texas governor was criticized for his handling of state education funding.

SAN ANTONIO - The feud over public school funding is, once again, leaving students and schools caught in the middle of a political blame game.On Monday, 38 Hou

AUSTIN — At least 12 Republican candidates who lost elections in Harris County in November filed election challenges Friday.

Bill requiring emergency preparedness plans for electricity and gas facilities in Texas passed, accountability questions remain ‘Right now, we are still vulnerable,’ says Houston-area State Representative Updated:  Tags:  HOUSTON – On Monday, Senate Bill 1750 was passed requiring emergency preparedness plans from those facilities that are within the Texas chain of electric and natural gas. “The weakness in all the legislation that has passed so far is that there are easy outs,” Hou...

LIST: Texas lawmakers tell us what they are doing to fix the state’s electric system Updated:  Tags:  TEXAS – State lawmakers are pouring through more than 200 proposed bills in Austin that would bring change to Texas’ electricity market. While almost all of the proposed laws focus on requiring power generators to maintain their plants to avoid another massive outage like we saw in the winter freeze, one bill would make wholesale and variable rate electric plans (like the plans sold by ...

When Rodney McIntosh saw the pistol, his instincts kicked in. He grabbed the armed man’s hand, shoved it down, and pushed him back into his car. It wasn’t McIntosh’s first time in a conflict on the verge of becoming a shooting. It’s his job. “You can’t do this in broad daylight,” McIntosh recalled telling the young man. If he’d pulled the trigger that day, prison wouldn’t be the only concern. “Someone is going to come shoot you, too,” McIntosh told him. A community activis...