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Whether it's 2003's Proposition 21, which allowed "a current or retired faculty member of a public college or university to receive compensation for service on the governing body of a water district," or Proposition 2 from the same year, which established "a two-year period for the redemption of a mineral interest sold for unpaid ad valorem taxes at a tax sale," Texas voters have grown accustomed to being asked to decide seemingly obscure issues at the ballot box.

In 1917, lawmakers debated the extent of their constitutional authority before they convicted Gov. James “Pa” Ferguson and removed him from office.

High-money donors are concentrated on larger boards, including those of the University of Texas System and Texas A&M University System.

Texas State Sen. Carol Alvarado’s filibuster to try to thwart an elections overhaul bill is just the latest of more than 100 over the past 72 years,...