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Texas GOP walks back Monday testimony against renaming Negrohead Lake, other sites FacebookTwitterEmail Water Oak Gully empties to Ijams Lake, which is just south of Negrohead Lake, photographed Monday, Feb. 8, 2021, in Baytown, Texas. Rodney Ellis and other city, county, state and federal officials gathered are demanding that Negrohead Lake be renamed Lake Henry Doyle as envisioned in the state law.Godofredo A. Vásquez, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer Hours after an official with the Texas Republican Party testified that the GOP opposes a bill in the state Legislature that would remo...

April 8, 2021 Guest Submission The George Floyd Act addresses qualified immunity by creating a cause of action for deprivation of rights; requires corroboration for the testimony of undercover police officers; adds a duty to intervene and to render aid; prohibits chokeholds and limits lethal force to imminent threat of serious bodily injury or death. It also ends arrests for many non-jailable fine-only violations and mandates creation of a progressive disciplinary matrix establishing different disciplinary actions for policy violations and violations of law by police. The law would call fo...

A Texas House committee on Thursday advanced an elections bill that would make it a state jail felony for local election officials to distribute an application to vote by mail to a voter who didn’t request one. House Bill 6 is part of a broader Republican effort this year to enact wide-ranging changes to elections in Texas that would ratchet up the state’s already restrictive election rules in the name of “election integrity” despite little to no evidence of widespread fraud. The legislation was approved by the House Elections Committee on a party line vote with only Repub...

Texas House committee advances bill that would make it a crime for election officials to send unsolicited vote-by-mail applications Lohmiller, Maggie Posted at 10:23 AM, Apr 08, 2021 and last updated 2021-04-08 11:23:53-04 A Texas House committee on Thursday advanced an elections bill that would make it a state jail felony for local election officials to distribute an application to vote by mail to a voter who didn’t request one. House Bill 6 is part of a broader Republican effort this year to enact wide-ranging changes to elections in Texas that would ratchet up the state’s alread...

Texas House advances bill that would make unsolicited vote-by-mail applications a crime Chron 2 days ago © Lynne Sladky, Associated Press A Texas House committee on Thursday advanced an elections bill that would make it a state jail felony for local election officials to distribute an application to vote by mail to a voter who didn’t request one. House Bill 6 is part of a broader Republican effort this year to enact wide-ranging changes to elections in Texas that would ratchet up the state’s already restrictive election rules in the name of “election integrity” despite little to n...