Senate Bill 297, filed Monday, would appropriate $17 billion from the rainy day fund for one-time $1,500 payments. It needs a two-thirds vote in each house and is not law.
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The actress, who played Elizabeth Holmes in The Dropout, discussed her previously unadvertised appearance in the documentary You Can See Everything after its theatrical opening.
A bipartisan Oct. 30 letter signed by 91 members of Congress asks House leaders to invite the first American-born pope to a joint session in January. No invitation has been announced.
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Senate Bill 297, filed Monday, would appropriate $17 billion from the rainy day fund for one-time $1,500 payments. It needs a two-thirds vote in each house and is not law.
A Nov. 9 TPWD release says Guadalupe River Trout Unlimited donated $20,000 for hatchery upgrades after recent floods. The state fish is found only in Texas.
Lake Conroe's December pattern is concentrating fish around winter structure. Butch Terpe explains where to find bass, crappie, hybrids and catfish and which presentations are producing.
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The Handbook of Texas traces Port Lavaca from a refuge after the 1840 Linnville raid to the Calhoun County seat that outlasted Indianola and grew around seafood and industry.
Willis ISD has begun rolling out weapons-detection systems at its three middle schools. Here is what students and parents should expect.
Named for a railroad manager in 1887, Yoakum grew around shops and a roundhouse, later shipped tomatoes, and still marks its leather trade with the annual Tom-Tom Festival.
Ace Borger's 1926 oil townsite drew tens of thousands in months. Texas Rangers and a month of martial law later helped end the worst lawlessness; the city remains a Panhandle energy hub.
A June 1886 railroad lot sale drew thousands to Runnels County. Ballinger later built a Carnegie library and remains the county's shipping and distribution center.
The Nov. 5 announcement covers Inspiration Tower and Prism, nearly 2 million square feet of new space, with openings planned in 2032 and 2030. No construction start date was given.
A November HHSC report shows 1,149 waiting for non-maximum-security forensic beds and 477 for maximum-security beds. Statewide average waits were 163 and 213 days.
DSHS Safe Riders explains Transportation Code 545.412 — younger than 8 unless taller than 4'9" — fines $25–$250, and how families get free seats and checkups before Thanksgiving trips.
A bipartisan Oct. 30 letter signed by 91 members of Congress asks House leaders to invite the first American-born pope to a joint session in January. No invitation has been announced.
U.S. bishops meet in Baltimore next week. A Tuesday report describes a theologians' letter urging a stronger statement on war and peace; the letter is not a conference vote.
Costa Mesa publicly clarified that it ordains women as pastors. Calvary Chapel Association voices call the practice a departure from biblical church order.
West Virginia's high court says the Methodist property fight is ecclesiastical. Civil courts will not reopen the congregations' case.
Mohr wrote the words in 1816; Gruber supplied music in 1818. Institutional histories distinguish the first performance from the broken-organ legend.
The Nov. 5 announcement covers Inspiration Tower and Prism, nearly 2 million square feet of new space, with openings planned in 2032 and 2030. No construction start date was given.
A bipartisan Oct. 30 letter signed by 91 members of Congress asks House leaders to invite the first American-born pope to a joint session in January. No invitation has been announced.
New Braunfels council unanimously approved a first reading to shorten construction hours after complaints at Lyndon Ranch, the Herald-Zeitung reported. A final vote is expected Nov. 16.
The lieutenant governor-elect named Republicans, Democrats and, according to the Tribune, a majority of registered lobbyists to her transition team on Tuesday.
The Labor Department said the Consumer Price Index rose 0.4 percent in October, above forecasts, as the Federal Reserve prepares for its December meeting.
El Paso’s council on Tuesday approved a resolution, recorded as passed in the official record, requiring fully reconciled travel forms for council members, their staff and city staff on the monthly agenda.
A City of Starbase notice sets a Dec. 9 hearing on Chapter 312 and Chapter 380 agreements for a gas-fired plant and computer facility on about 444 acres near the Port of Brownsville.
An eight-count superseding indictment unsealed Tuesday alleges a campaign of attacks in Europe and the United States and a September plot at RAF Fairford.
Skydance said Monday it will offer HBO Max and Paramount+ as a bundle in early 2027. Pricing and an exact date were not announced.
