Karen Brooks Harper | The Texas Tribune
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The proposal recommends spending billions on programs including property tax cuts, teacher pay raises, mental health services and border security. It leaves out requests for pay raises for retired state employees and funding for rent relief and childcare programs.
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The Texas Department of Public Safety is instead asking lawmakers for $381.5 million to upgrade its current facilities with better technology, dormitories and cafeteria for trainees from across the state.
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The preliminary budgets by House and Senate call for $130.1 billion in state spending over two years, even though tens of billions more are available to them. The bills do not bust state or constitutional spending limits.
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The Dallas-based airline has canceled more flights than any other airline during the holidays, prompting federal investigators to ask why.
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State leaders won’t commit to specifics about how much they might invest in children’s mental healthAs public debate intensifies over how the state will divvy up billions in new money, community groups that treat children for mental illness fear they’re not a priority.
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Republicans continued their 28-year dominance of statewide races but fell short of their hopes for a South Texas congressional sweep.
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Texas agencies say they are being hammered by a historic staffing crisis, particularly when it comes to those in the trenches serving the state’s most vulnerable populations.
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A federal North Texas judge rules that religious employers need not cover PrEP in their health plansU.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor’s ruling could threaten access to sexual and reproductive health care for more than 150 million working Americans on employer-sponsored health care plans. The ruling will likely be appealed.
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The suit comes two days before the state’s newest abortion ban, triggered by the overturning of Roe v. Wade, goes into effect.
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While there are currently 780 confirmed monkeypox cases statewide, Texas cities are bracing for an increase in infections.
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Kids ages 6 months to 4 years became eligible for the vaccine last month. Experts say a number of factors could be hampering parents from getting their kids vaccinated.
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The virus isn’t airborne, so it isn’t as easy to contract as COVID-19. But experts say it shouldn’t be ignored.