Texas Government News

At their regular meeting Thursday, the Texas Transportation Commission acted unanimously to approve roughly $2 billion in highway projects aimed at increasing safety, rehabilitating pavement, expanding highway corridors of statewide significance and reducing traffic congestion in communities across the state.

Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison launched the first television commercials of their fractious primary fight today, each side claiming the conservative high ground aimed at winning Republican voters.

By JAY ROOT AUSTIN - Republican activist Cathie Adams has almost made a career out of stirring things up.

Total nonagricultural employment in Texas increased by 41,700 positions in October with significant increases in Professional and Business Services and Education and Health Services.

AUSTIN a 'The Texas unemployment rate rose slightly in October while the state bucked a yearlong trend by adding jobs, as well.

The Heritage Society of Austin will not support plans, unveiled in October, for a two-story addition to the 153-year-old building.

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, will begin airing television spots on Friday, a day after she launched a radio campaign in her effort to unseat Texas Gov.

Texans: Are you really married? Maybe not. Barbara Ann Radnofsky, a Houston lawyer and Democratic candidate for attorney general, says that a 22-word clause in a 2005 constitutional amendment designed to ban gay marriages erroneously endangers the legal status of all marriages in the state.

State Rep. Norma Chvez warned the State Board of Education on Wednesday to include more Hispanics in new history curriculum standards or risk possible budget scrutiny.

With budget problems mounting for many Texas school districts, the next governor is likely to inherit a funding system that experts say has become a legal and financial quagmire.

A somber candlelight vigil marked by both silence and song commemorated the 10th anniversary early Wednesday of a bonfire collapse that killed 12 people at Texas A&M University.

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, in a rare and unusual move, recommended Wednesday that the governor commute the sentence of a convicted killer whoa s scheduled to murderer Thursday.

"You mean we could have gotten married in Texas where they have a get-out-of-hell-free law?" An example of what happens when politicians meddle in things they have no business in.

It's clear that Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison wants to be governor in the worst possible way.

The bonfire collapse at Texas A&M University killed Carolyn Adams' daughter, Miranda.

Though the Texas gubernatorial primaries are not until this March, Texas Federation of Republican Women members are split between party front-runners Sen.

Texas has 45 days to rework its plan to spend the second round of $1.7 billion in Hurricane Ike federal recovery funds after the Department of Housing and Urban Development said the state did not provide enough chances for residents to comment on using disaster money on housing and infrastructure.

Texas is home to 1.7 million veterans, 240,000 of whom have served our nation in Afghanistan and Iraq in the past eight years.

With the Texas population expected to nearly double over the next 50 years, lawmakers and water experts gathered Monday to convey an important message: We're running out of water.

The Texas population is expected to nearly double over the next 50 years, so lawmakers and water experts gathered in Fort Worth Monday to convey an important message: We're running out of water.