Texas

Texans pay some of the highest property taxes in the country, and listeners have a lot of thoughts about how that could be addressed. One unconventional idea we’ve heard: offsetting homeowners’ tax bills with revenue from legal weed. So, could that actually work?

This legislative session, public radio stations across Texas want to answer your wonkiest, weirdest and wildest questions about property taxes in the state. What questions do you have? We want to find the answers for you.

The latest results from a Texas Lyceum poll show an erosion of trust in some of America’s most important institutions, including the education system.

The state had a banner year in job growth, though economists say the spike is not sustainable.

Bills range from prohibiting insurance companies from covering gender-affirming care to revoking the license of a doctor who performs a gender-affirming surgery on a minor.

Roe author Mary Ziegler has chronicled the legal, political and cultural battles around abortion, and says the debate is far from over: "We're at the very beginning of something very confusing."

Preliminary data from the National Park Service show Big Bend National Park saw an 11% drop in visitors last year, a slowdown from a record-high year in 2021.

The Republican governor will serve his term with an expanded Republican majority in the Texas House and Senate, making it unlikely that his priorities will face significant roadblocks.

Historically, in sessions after a mass shooting in Texas, bills seeking to restrict guns have gone nowhere.

King's birthday became a federal holiday in 1983, but Texas was one of several states that refused to recognize it at first.