Michael Shiloh

4 days ago | ktrh.iheart.com | Michael Shiloh

President Donald Trump says he's still loyal to his "big beautiful" budget bill that's winding its way through Congress, despite criticisms from Elon Musk. The bill was passed by the US House of Representatives in late May, but has been bogged down in the Senate with attempted re-writes, amendments and some minor changes. The former head of the Department of Government Efficiency, Musk recently stepped aside and has been working with projects such as SpaceX and the X social media platform.

4 days ago | ktrh.iheart.com | Michael Shiloh

Now that the Texas Legislature has finished its once-every-two-year job and won't meet again until January 2027 (unless Governor Greg Abbott decides to call a special session), how did it all go? Among those who appear satisfied with the results include Governor Greg Abbott, who's doing publicity-generating public signings of bills, and some politicians who managed to see their pet legislation make it into law.

5 days ago | ktrh.iheart.com | Michael Shiloh

In a rare show of cooperative partisanship, members of the Texas Legislature voted unanimously for a bill to change and, it's hoped, improve special education statewide. Four years ago, the Legislature charged the Texas Commission on Special Education Funding with finding the most efficient but modern ways to teach special needs children, and the committee's later recommendations were incorporated in Senate Bill 568, which was presented in the legislature's term that's ending Monday.

5 days ago | ktrh.iheart.com | Michael Shiloh

A police officer in Arlington has been killed in the line of duty. Sgt. J.D. White was accompanying a funeral procession on Sunday when he was struck by a passing vehicle. The officer was taken by LifeFlight to a nearby hospital in Arlington, which is between Dallas and Ft. Worth. Sgt. White was pronounced dead a short time later.

5 days ago | ktrh.iheart.com | Michael Shiloh

The Texas Legislature says "Sine Die" on Monday. That's Latin for "we're through here, we have no plans to meet again." But as Sine Die approached bringing the final say of the current session, legislators got their last laws and notions in, haggling over the weekend about the last of the bills to go through, including one that that will allow for houses to be built on smaller plots of land.