A longtime public servant, Turner served in the Texas House of Representatives for many years before he was elected Houston’s ...
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State lawmakers offered up tributes to the late Houston mayor, congressman and former Texas House member ahead of his memorial on Saturday.
Five years after Texas’ first COVID death, the state spends less on public health, vaccination rates have dropped and a distrust of authority has taken hold.
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Hundreds debate Texas House Bill 3 on education savings accounts, with concerns over public school funding impacts.
With more than 20 hours of discussion, the Texas House Committee on Public Education adjourned around 6:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Under House Bill 3, students in the program would receive funding for private school tuition equal to 85% of the average funding public schools get per student.
Turner, who died last Wednesday at age 70, was brought to the state Capitol shortly before noon ... She's previously written for the Austin-American Statesman, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune ...