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TribCast: Did lawmakers improve Texas’ infrastructure?

2 days ago | texastribune.org | Eleanor Klibanoff

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Texas legislators gaveled out yesterday, but not before passing bills that will impact Texas’ infrastructure for years to come. Matthew and Eleanor are joined by Texas Tribune environmental reporter Alejandra Martinez and Permian Basin reporter Carlos Nogueras Ramos for a closer look at the major changes coming to Texas’ water and electrical systems.
“All eyes on San Antonio”: Democratic disunity, GOP push turn mayor’s race into a political battleground

2 days ago | texastribune.org | Andrea Drusch

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In final act, Texas Legislature boosts judges pay and lawmaker pensions

3 days ago | texastribune.org | Eleanor Klibanoff

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Texas lawmakers passed a bill that will give judges a long-awaited raise and boost their own pensions, after an 11th hour clash between the House and Senate. Texas judges will get a 25% raise, with base pay increasing to $175,000.
How RFK Jr., Democrats and Republicans found common ground over food labels in Texas

4 days ago | texastribune.org | Terri Langford |Jess Huff

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Months ago, when Texas Senate Health and Human Services Committee Chair Lois Kolkhorst first held a hearing on Senate Bill 25 — requiring among other things, warning labels on foods containing certain additives — the first person to speak was Calley Means, a top adviser to U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy.
Bills aimed at studying, restricting “forever chemicals” in Texas fail

4 days ago | texastribune.org | Alejandra Martinez

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. FORT WORTH — Rising public concern in Texas over PFAS, or “forever chemicals” linked to cancer, infertility and immune disorders sparked lawmakers to file half a dozen bills to study the chemicals, regulate them in sewage sludge and ban them in firefighting foam for some uses.
Texas lawmakers to allow smaller homes on smaller lots

4 days ago | texastribune.org | Joshua Fechter

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Texas lawmakers have sent a scaled-back zoning proposal to allow smaller homes on smaller lots to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk — a bid to put a dent in the state’s high home prices.
Bill to scrap STAAR test dies in the Texas Legislature

4 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. A legislative effort to scrap the STAAR test to respond to concerns that the test puts unnecessary pressure on students died in the last days of the legislative session. House Bill 4, authored by state Rep. Brad Buckley, would have swapped the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness test for three shorter tests given throughout the school year.
Texas Legislature gives new city of Starbase authority to shutdown local beach for SpaceX launches

4 days ago | texastribune.org | Berenice Garcia

Subscribe to The Y’all — a weekly dispatch about the people, places and policies defining Texas, produced by Texas Tribune journalists living in communities across the state. Texas lawmakers agreed to give the new city of Starbase the authority to periodically close down a South Texas beach, giving more power to municipal officials with close ties to SpaceX over the objections of local activists trying to preserve access to the beach.
Long-awaited raise for Texas judges in limbo over legislative pension clash

5 days ago | texastribune.org | Eleanor Klibanoff

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Long-awaited pay raises for Texas judges are stuck in a legislative limbo as the clock winds down and lawmakers battle over the future of their own retirement plans.
Starbase, Texas' newest city, has liftoff; seeks $1.5 million loan from Elon Musk’s SpaceX

6 days ago | texastribune.org | Berenice Garcia

Subscribe to The Y’all — a weekly dispatch about the people, places and policies defining Texas, produced by Texas Tribune journalists living in communities across the state. STARBASE — Texas’ newest city had liftoff this week. Starbase city leaders were sworn in Thursday and appointed a city manager. On Friday, they met again to approve a loan request to help fund the city until tax dollars trickle in.