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If you want to help pick Democratic and Republican candidates for the November elections, it's time to head to the polls.Over the last few weeks, KUT has…

Quick quiz: How many state district judges are in Travis County? The answer is right on the tip of your tongue, right?No, of course it isn’t. It’s a…

When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was the state's attorney general, he had a memorable description for his old job."My job description has been simplified over…

When Texans – mostly farmers and ranchers – sat down to write the state Constitution in the 1800s, they didn’t see the need for an elected agriculture…

In the brutal final scene from the 2007 movie There Will Be Blood, sociopathic oilman Daniel Plainview meets his rival for the last time. If oil fields…

The state of Texas owns a bunch of land. That's because, in case you didn't know, we used to be our own country and joined the United States without the…

The Texas Legislature writes the state budget. The governor signs it into law. But with a single action, the Texas comptroller can kill the entire…

When I moved to Austin in 2002, one of the first things I did to acclimate myself to Texas was visit the Bullock Texas State History Museum. I remember…

1876. It was a time of rebirth in Texas. Or maybe more precisely – time to get rid of those Reconstruction-era carpetbaggers."When the North sent folks…