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U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of Texas death row inmate pushing for DNA evidence tests

1 day ago | texastribune.org | Ayden Runnels |Kayla Guo

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a Texas death row inmate can challenge the constitutionality of the state’s DNA testing law in his bid to have DNA evidence from his case tested.
Robert Nichols, the most senior Texas Senate Republican, won’t run for reelection

3 days ago | texastribune.org | Kayla Guo

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Sen. Robert Nichols, R-Jacksonville, announced Tuesday he would not seek reelection to his East Texas seat — news that was followed minutes later by Rep. Trent Ashby, R-Lufkin, launching his campaign to succeed him in the upper chamber.
State Rep. Nate Schatzline launches bid for newly vacant Texas Senate seat

3 days ago | texastribune.org | Kayla Guo

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Rep. Nate Schatzline, a hardline Fort Worth Republican, announced his bid Tuesday to fill the state Senate seat vacated by Kelly Hancock, who left the Legislature last week to become Texas’ acting comptroller. “It’s clear that our state will only be as conservative to the extent we are willing to fight for it,” Schatzline said in his announcement.
What Texas lawmakers did this session to close the state’s workforce gaps

3 days ago | texastribune.org | Sneha Dey

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Workforce training played the quiet middle child during this year’s regular legislative session. While louder, more polarizing issues took the spotlight, Texas lawmakers also passed landmark bills that will reshape how students prepare for life after high school. The session opened with unexpected attention on workforce training when Gov.
Sen. Joan Huffman joins GOP field vying to succeed Ken Paxton as Texas attorney general

4 days ago | texastribune.org | Kayla Guo

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. State Sen. Joan Huffman, a Houston Republican who is one of the longest tenured members of the Texas Senate, announced her bid for attorney general on Monday, making her the third high-profile entrant and second member of the upper chamber to declare for the open seat.
Lt. Gov. Patrick rips Gov. Abbott for vetoing THC ban, digs in against calls for regulation

4 days ago | texastribune.org | Kayla Guo |Alejandro Serrano

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, the powerful head of the Texas Senate, sharply rebuked Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday for vetoing his top legislative priority — a ban on all THC products — and dug in his heels against the governor’s call for lawmakers to instead place firmer regulations on the hemp industry.
TribCast: A special legislative session is coming

4 days ago | texastribune.org | Matthew Watkins

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. This week, we're joined by two members of our politics team — reporter Kayla Guo and editor Jasper Scherer — for an emergency episode to discuss Gov. Greg Abbott vetoing Texas THC ban and calling a special session. How will Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick respond? Will redistricting end up on the agenda? Watch the video above, or subscribe to the TribCast on iTunes, Spotify, or RSS.
Gov. Greg Abbott vetoes funding for federal summer lunch program

4 days ago | texastribune.org | Terri Langford

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Gov. Greg Abbott has vetoed a $60 million budget measure that would have allowed Texas to enter a federal summer lunch program for low-income children. The Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer, or Summer EBT program would have given qualifying families $120 per child to pay for lunches during the summer months in 2027.
Former U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold of Corpus Christi dies at 63

1 week ago | texastribune.org | Kayla Guo

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Former U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold, a four-term Republican congressman from Corpus Christi and local radio host, died this week from a heart attack after struggling with chronic liver disease, according to a close friend who worked on his radio show. He was 63. “Blake was a good family friend,” state Rep.
Texas is illegally keeping people with disabilities in nursing homes, federal judge rules

1 week ago | texastribune.org | Stephen Simpson |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. Texas has been violating federal law for decades by sequestering individuals with severe disabilities in poorly-run nursing homes without offering them alternative living options and services in the community, a federal judge has ruled.