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On Monday, the Department of Agriculture set the record straight, telling The Hill that a burger ban is “not part of the climate change plan nor the emissions targets. It is not real.” Still, many prominent Republicans took the bait, including Abbott, who assured beef-loving Texans that burgers would never be banned on his watch. “Not gonna happen in Texas!” he said in a tweet, which included a screengrab of FOX’s false claims. Of course, some on Twitter were quick to criticize Abbot...

Many parents credit monitoring systems like Frisco’s with saving their kids’ lives, but some privacy and civil liberties experts are sounding the alarm, saying well-meaning districts could be doing more harm than good. In February, Frisco ISD’s director of counseling, Stephanie Cook, told NBC-DFW that Frisco was up 200% in hospitalizations at the beginning of the year. And last fall, there was a point when there weren’t any vacant mental health beds for adolescents in Collin County, she...

As police desperately tried to stop an angry mob from storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, North Texas’ Mark Middleton pushed back against the barricade, federal authorities say. Decked out in a red, white and blue Trump beanie, Middleton hurled insults at the officers. “Fuck you!” Middleton screamed, according to court documents. Three-and-a-half months later, he’d be arrested. Middleton is a GOP precinct chair in Cooke County, around 85 miles north of Dallas. His wife, Jalise, was als...

Suzanne Jones never "in a million years" would have imagined she’d be a key player in a widely publicized labor struggle. Then again, it’s been a crazy couple of months for her and other Collin College professors. The school let go Jones, an education professor, suddenly in January. Shes one of four female educators whose contracts the school terminated this semester. Along with advocating for faculty input in the college’s COVID-19 plans, Jones had helped create a local chapter of the T...

Blackmon insists Keep Dallas Safe knows that rather than defunding law enforcement, City Council actually increased the police department’s overall budget last September. The group also understands that the council’s push to get 95 police officers from behind desks and back out onto neighborhood patrols isn’t anti-public safety, she said. “And yet they still put this stuff out, and they can’t even spell my name right,” Blackmon said. “I mean, it’s like, spell the name right, a...

On Friday, Punchbowl News reported the East Texas Republican had agreed to join a nakedly nativist congressional group, the “America First Caucus." Formed by controversial Georgia U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the caucus vowed to safeguard the "interests of the American people." But in its policy platform, the caucus wrote it views America as “a nation with a border, and a culture, strengthened by a common respect for uniquely Anglo-Saxon political traditions.” It also called for cul...

Mike Collier is serious about his bid for Texas lieutenant governor, but that doesnt mean the Democrat doesnt take the time to stop and smell the roses. During a phone call on a rainy Thursday afternoon last week, he paused to talk about how "the flowers are just spectacular" while speaking about his policy plans. “This is a great spring for flowers.” Earlier this month, Collier announced his run against Dan Patrick for lieutenant governor for the second time. In 2018, Collier came withi...

Group members “bid” $100 on one Black student and $1 on another. Someone remarked they would have paid more for the latter student if “his hair wasn’t so bad.” An Aledo ISD spokeswoman said the district disciplined the students for racial harassment and cyberbullying. She also said district officials are "deeply saddened" that the incident inflicted "tremendous pain" for the victims and their families, as well as other students of color. Eddie Burnett, president of the Parker County ...

“I think it will mean a lot for our returning citizens who come out of our prison,” he said. “I don’t think anyone dreams about or has aspirations of going to prison when they’re a kid, and yet we are not keeping a central standard study of recidivism for the state.” The report would include details on statewide and county rates. In addition, it would provide information on Texans who previously served time in county jail and on those who were rearrested, reconvicted or reincarcerat...

Every Texan knows and loves someone who’s had an abortion, said Caroline Duble, political director for the pro-choice abortion advocacy group Avow. “I think it’s a real shame that in the midst of a deadly pandemic, the Public Health Committee chose to prioritize banning abortion and further jeopardizing our access to health care,” she said. One of the most “egregious” bills for consideration is House Bill 1515, Duble said. Filed by Stephenville state Rep. Shelby Slawson, it would am...