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WEBWhat’s the story behind ZZ Top’s First Annual Texas-Size Rompin’ Stompin’ Barndance and Bar B.Q.? This weekend marks 50 years since an event in Austin that no one has seen the likes of since. A concert so epic — and so messy — that if…. August 30, 2024. Texas has removed a million people from the voter rolls.
Three Laws Every Rural Landowner In Texas Should Know
WEBApr 13, 2021 · As long as they follow state and federal law, feedlots and other agricultural outfits are protected from “nuisance” clams under Texas’ Right to Farm statute. Lashmet says anyone looking to buy rural property should know ahead of time that they may not have much recourse if they end up having complaints about a neighboring agriculture ...
Support for ‘Texit’ is still low - Texas Standard
WEBFeb 22, 2024 · A history of secession. The idea of secession isn’t new in Texas politics – the state was briefly a sovereign country after it declared independence from Mexico in 1836. And years after it was annexed into the U.S., Texas left the Union to join the Confederacy in 1861. Jones said an “increasing lack of trust and confidence” in the ...
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Here’s how Texas voted on the 14 statewide propositions
WEBNov 8, 2023 · Texas voters have weighed in on topics ranging from tax exemption increases to state infrastructure funding. Preliminary election results Tuesday night showed that Texans voted in favor of 13 of the 14 proposed amendments, approving measures ranging from a higher homestead exemption for Texas homeowners to a pension boost for retired teachers.Most voted against Proposition 13, which would have ...
Why Texas school funding still isn’t fair | Texas Standard
WEBOct 20, 2023 · The second reason the Texas school finance system can be unfair is that Texas consistently ranks in the bottom 10 to 12 states for education spending per student. Texas hasn’t increased school funding since 2019. Just to keep up with inflation over the last four years, state lawmakers would need to add almost $1,200 per student.
Educator pay is top of mind for Texas’ biggest teachers union this ...
WEBJan 10, 2023 · Throughout the legislative session, advocacy groups of all stripes make their way to the statehouse to push for their interests. Among them is the Texas State Teachers Association, the biggest teachers union in Texas, and the state affiliate of the National Education Association.
With No Permanent Home For Spent Plutonium, Amarillo’s Pantex …
WEBApr 24, 2018 · Decades after the end of the Cold War, dismantling or updating thousands of retired nuclear warheads remains a huge task for the U.S. Storing the radioactive plutonium from the warheads continues to pose a security risk. In fact, one Department of Energy plant in Amarillo, Texas, is home to plutonium cores …
Government & Politics - Texas Standard
WEBSep 10, 2024 · Conservative AGs hope to upend 70 years of law going back to Brown v Board of Education with Texas case. August 2, 2024.
A ‘heat dome’ is back over Texas. Here’s what that means (and …
WEBJun 11, 2024 · A heat dome is a high-pressure system that, because physics, traps heat and keeps it there. That pressure system’s atmospheric energy is hard to bust up: The high pressure above is met with the rising heat below, which makes the system especially stubborn and slow-moving. Right now, that pressure system is trapped over land, but …