The 2025 Legislature will land the plane on a historic water session, allotting $2.5 billion in not-itemized infrastructure spending with a 50-50 split between new supply and fixing existing ...

Attorneys general representing 15 states plus the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit in a Maryland-based federal district court to block the federal government from returning seized Forced Reset ...

Kim Roberts Kim Roberts is a reporter for The Texan in the DFW metroplex area where she has lived for over 20 years. She has a Juris Doctor from Baylor University Law School and a Bachelor’s in ...

The Texan’s Texas Partisan Index (TPI) analyzes the political leanings of every Texas legislative district and county based on statewide election results from 2020, 2022, and 2024. Using data obtained ...

Birdwell was first elected to the seat in a 2010 special election and has maintained the seat without much of a competitive challenge ever since. While an Army staffer, Birdwell was in the Pentagon on ...

Dallas Independent School District (ISD) approved an unbalanced budget for the next school year that keeps the same tax rate and cuts some costs, but avoids school closures and raises teacher salaries ...

Mary Elise Cosgray Mary Elise Cosgray is a reporter for The Texan, residing in Southeast Texas. She was born and raised on a small ranch west of Houston, hopping from East-Central Texas to a temporary ...

Nineteen six-month emergency closure orders have been issued to massage establishments across the state due to suspected human trafficking, thanks to state Rep. Ben Bumgarner’s (R-Flower Mound) House ...

Matt Stringer Matt Stringer is a reporter for The Texan who writes about all things government, politics, and public policy. He graduated from Odessa College with an Associate Degree in Paralegal ...

The Texas Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR), which calculates the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, reported Texas’ increase from 17.2 in 2019 to 27.7 in 2020 and 37.7 in 2021 — a spike ...

The EEOC “Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace” was issued in 2024, and created enforcements for how sex-based harassment includes harassment based on “sexual orientation or gender ...

Cameron Abrams Cameron Abrams is a reporter for The Texan. After graduating with a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from Tabor College and a Master’s Degree from University of the Pacific, Cameron is ...