This is no longer some Medicaid accounting argument between bureaucrats in Austin and Washington. Houston-area hospitals could lose as much as $1.4 billion next year if the dispute is not
Texas spent years welcoming data centers with open arms. They brought promises of billions of dollars in investment, artificial intelligence, construction, and a new technology boom. Gov. Greg Abbott was
Republicans appear to have discovered that the surest sign of a healthy democracy is spending every election warning that democracy will end if they lose. The sirens are already sounding.
For years, Texas told some of the richest companies in the world to come on down. Bring your data centers. Bring your artificial intelligence. Bring your billion-dollar projects. Texas would
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is suddenly worried about Flock cameras. He should be. DeSantis, hardly a politician normally accused of being soft on law enforcement, says the public is “right
Greg Abbott has discovered that government surveillance might be a problem. The discovery came rather late. For three years, Texas helped finance a rapidly expanding network of artificial-intelligence cameras capable
Sometimes politicians have to spend millions of dollars trying to create an issue. Orlando Sanchez may not have to spend a dime. Houston City Council Member Julian Ramirez has proposed
Gina Hinojosa has a chance to become governor of Texas. That is something Democrats have not realistically been able to say very often during Greg Abbott’s time in office. But
Ladies and gentlemen of the Democratic Party, come on over. I have something I think you’ll like. No, it is not another consultant. You already own enough of those. I
Ladies and gentlemen of the Democratic Party, come on over. I have something I think you are going to like. No, it is not another consultant. You already own enough
Texas Democrats know how to talk about taxes when the subject is Republicans giving tax breaks to billionaires and corporations. They know how to complain about loopholes. They know how
Here’s what stands out this morning, Monday, August 24, with new polling folded into the news rather than separated from it. The biggest Texas development is that the national press
Greg Abbott wants Texans to know that he is not worried. That is important, because lately he has been behaving like a man with a smoke detector going off in
The Mayor Says Chris Brown Worked. The Controller Says: Show Me. Houston Mayor John Whitmire says his administration is serious about rooting out waste at City Hall. City Controller Chris
A federal appeals court has presented Texas Republicans with the sort of constitutional problem nobody in Austin was asking for: They may eventually have to treat younger voters the same
For most of this election cycle, the conventional wisdom was simple: Democrats might win the House, but the Senate was probably beyond their reach. That conventional wisdom is beginning to
Nate Silver is one of America’s best-known election forecasters. A statistician and the founder of FiveThirtyEight, he became nationally known after correctly predicting 49 of 50 states in the 2008
Most Texans probably know who Dan Patrick is. Vikki Goodwin is another matter. In the latest Texas A&M Bush School/ReconMR poll, Goodwin led Patrick 48% to 46% among likely voters.
The Seats Keep Falling One election can be dismissed as a fluke. Thirty Republican state legislative seats changing hands since Donald Trump returned to office begins to look like something
Back in the 1990s, I had an idea. I tried to convince some people I considered pretty smart that we needed a permanent organization whose job was to study government
