Zach Despart
Politics Reporter at Texas Tribune
Covering politics & power for @texastribune. Alum @houstonchron & @uvmvermont. NY native. Dalmatian dad.
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1 month ago |
krgv.com | Joshua Fechter |Zach Despart
"Texas Senate advances bill to allow smaller homes on smaller lots" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
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1 month ago |
texastribune.org | Joshua Fechter |Zach Despart
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The Texas Senate on Wednesday advanced the chamber’s signature bill aimed at reining in the state’s high housing costs: allowing smaller homes on smaller lots. Senate Bill 15 — a top priority for Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who leads the Senate — would reduce the amount of land cities require single-family homes in new subdivisions to sit on.
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1 month ago |
crossroadstoday.com | Zach Despart |Carla Astudillo
GARDENDALE — In October, Sarah Rojo found herself drowning in property tax debt. She owed $23,778 on the “dream home” she built outside Odessa with her husband, Raul, before he died suddenly in 2019. She owed $5,727 on the home with the limestone trim she acquired from her father, who passed in 2008. And she owed $22,742 on her grandmother’s pink house five blocks away, on the other side of Zavala Elementary, that she inherited two years before.
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1 month ago |
texastribune.org | Zach Despart |Carla Astudillo
Key coverage Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. GARDENDALE — In October, Sarah Rojo found herself drowning in property tax debt. She owed $23,778 on the “dream home” she built outside Odessa with her husband, Raul, before he died suddenly in 2019. She owed $5,727 on the home with the limestone trim she acquired from her father, who passed in 2008.
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Jan 22, 2025 |
msmagazine.com | Zach Despart
This article was originally published by The Texas Tribune. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Sunday said the Legislature should amend the language of the state’s near-total abortion ban to address confusion over when doctors may terminate pregnancies. “I do think we need to clarify any language so that doctors are not in fear of being penalized if they think the life of the mother is at risk,” Patrick said on the WFAA program Inside Texas Politics.
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