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Abbott’s Voucher Fight Isn’t About Kids. It’s About Money, Politics, and Religion.

The Senate passed its bill this week as the governor continues to pressure House members to compromise.

Texas Observer

Black student disciplined over hairstyle hopes to 'start being a kid again'

For more than a month, Darryl George, a Black high school student in Texas, spent each school day sitting by himself in punishment over his hairstyle

The Independent UK

Texas voting map discriminates against Black and Latino residents, judge rules

Federal judge strikes down new electoral map in Galveston county, calling it ‘stark and jarring’ violation of Voting Rights Act

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Defending Your Dog Against Family Member Can Lead to Family Violence Protective Order

A Texas court holds that only self-defense—not defense of property—is excluded from such orders (which can also temporarily strip defendant of Second Amendment rights). And the same logic applies to force, even nonlethal force, used to defend your family members against another family member as well.

Reason

Black student suspended a day before state’s hairstyle rules change

School alleged a variety of infractions, including breaking a regulation about ‘grooming’

The Independent UK

Kirk Herbstreit ranks his top CFB teams ahead of Week 7

Two of Kirk Herbstreit's top six teams play against each other this week. Where does Herbstreit rank Georgia?

USA Today Sports Media Group

Texas Wants to Adopt Outdated Cancer Risk Standard Despite Concerns

TCEQ is proposing to quietly adopt its 17-year-old cancer standard that leading scientists and public health officials call inadequate.

Texas Observer

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Strangest State: Alligators, Tigers & Hailstorms, Oh My!

Weird weather, unusual attacks on education, and zoo animals keeping cool, in the latest dispatch from far-flung Texas.

Texas Observer

Tesla Cybertruck Stainless Steel To Be Supplied By Finnish Company: Report

Outokumpu, Europe's largest producer of stainless steel, has a plant in Calvert, Alabama, which could supply Giga Texas with materials, sources told Bloomberg.

InsideEVs

Texas quietly moves to formalize acceptable cancer risk from industrial air pollution. Public health officials say it’s not strict enough.

Without public hearings, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is proposing to adopt its 17-year-old standard that scientists and public health officials say fails to account for cumulative air pollution.

The Texas Tribune

Texas’ main voucher bill seeks to avoid other states’ mistakes but keeps ideas that attracted criticism

Like in Texas, voucher programs in other states sparked vigorous debates, came with the same promises and faced similar concerns. Not all predictions came true.

The Texas Tribune

Here's how you can see Saturday's 'ring of fire' solar eclipse

People in some areas of the western U.S. will be able to see the annular eclipse, when the moon passes directly in front of the sun. Experts urge viewers to watch the eclipse safely.

WEKU

Texas Senate moves border bill that allows state police to arrest migrants at U.S.-Mexico border

Two immigration bills advanced in the Senate on Thursday evening. A bill that would increase the minimum sentence for smuggling migrants passed with bipartisan support and will head to the House.

The Texas Tribune

School voucher bill gets initial approval in the Texas Senate, heads over to a more skeptical House

The Senate also approved Senate Bill 2, which would infuse $5.2 billion to school districts to help them with teacher raises and rising costs. Gov. Greg Abbott said he would add those items to the special session’s agenda once lawmakers approve a voucher program.

The Texas Tribune

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GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy draws hundreds of young conservatives at UT-Austin event

The presidential contender visited the University of Texas at Austin Thursday where he answered student questions and said the U.S. shouldn’t aid Ukraine in its war against Russia.

The Texas Tribune

COVID-19 funding halted rural hospital closures across Texas, until now

La Grange residents worked for months to try to save the 65-bed hospital and asked the city to step in with a loan, but it wasn’t enough.

The Independent UK

Texas mother-of-three called police nine times for help before ex-husband allegedly killed her

Melissa Banda, 37, was found dead in the bushes along a rural Texas road in August 2020

USA Today Sports Media Group

College Football Playoff watch: Frontrunners, bubble teams and dark-horse contenders in Week 7

Will one of the College Football Playoff bubble teams jump toward the top in the next couple weeks?

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A Black Texas student suspended for his hairstyle is shifted to an alternative school

Darryl George, a junior at Barbers Hill High School, who was suspended for wearing a natural hairstyle, will be placed in a disciplinary alternative education program through Nov. 29.

The Texas Tribune

Here’s who gets money from Defend Texas Liberty, the PAC whose leader met with white supremacist Nick Fuentes

The group has funded candidates and groups like the Texas GOP who have pushed fellow Republicans to take a harder line against things like illegal immigration and transgender people.

The Independent UK

Texas company paid $75m in one year to bus migrants out of state

‘Texas has since bused over 54,000 migrants to self-declared sanctuary cities, providing much-needed relief,’ Texas Gov Greg Abbott’s spokesperson explained

USA Today Sports Media Group

Behind the AP Top 25 Poll: Why LSU is No. 1 on this preseason women’s basketball ballot

Paige Bueckers is back and so is Caitlin Clark, but can UConn or Iowa top LSU as the No. 1 team?

The Texas Tribune

Looking for an economic rebound, an East Texas town looks to the arts — and is rebuffed by the state

A town of 34,000 people, Lufkin sits deep in the Piney Woods, a region dotted with rural towns. Local civic leaders hope a long list of efforts can revitialize the city’s downtown and reboot its economy.

Zenger

Christian Coalition Escalates Fight Against Death Penalty, Calls For Fair Hearings And Clemency

Christian leaders intensify fight against death penalty, argue for fair hearings and mercy for inmates on death row.

Texas Observer

A Possible Reprieve for the Mentally Ill on Death Row

Scott Panetti was deemed incompetent for execution.

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