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Speak Up, Texas! State agency wants your ideas to make insurance better
March 9, 2026 Español The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) wants Texans to share their solutions for improving home and auto insurance. The agency will use the ideas it gets from Speak Up, Texas! to recommend changes that can strengthen insurance. Texans can submit thoughts online at www.tdi.texas.gov/speakuptexas. “We want to hear your ideas for making insurance coverage…
Read MoreEspecially Texan: Cindy Walker
Legacy of Texas is the official store of the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA). Especially Texan is a weekly dive into historical topics that make up the tapestry of Texas history. Especially Texan: Cindy Walker It’s Women’s History Month and we’d like to share one of our entries from our Handbook of Texas Women. Cindy Walker…
Read MoreTHSBCA Mar 8 Poll 2026
TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL COACHES ASSOCIATION Poll- March 8, 2026 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 6A TOP 10 OVERALL DISTRICT 1 Tomball 12-0-1 2-0 2 Keller 14-1-2 0-0 3 Atascocita 13-3 0-0 4 Dripping Springs 12-4-1 0-0 5 Katy 14-1-1 2-0 6 Waxahachie 15-1 0-0 7 Laredo United South 17-1 0-0 8 Flower Mound 11-6-1…
Read MoreTexas Weekly Gas Price Update
March 9, 2026 Average gasoline prices in Texas have risen 57.5 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.13/g today, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 13,114 stations in Texas. Prices in Texas are 65.7 cents per gallon higher than a month ago and stand 47.0 cents per gallon higher than a year ago. The…
Read MoreOp-Ed: Rural Frustration Is Real — And It’s Growing
By Suzanne Bellsnyder For the first time since 2008, Democrats outvoted Republicans by roughly 500,000 votes during early voting in the Texas primary, and the final with election day totals shows 2,160,662 Democrat votes and 2,048,488 Republican votes. That signals something important: enthusiasm and energy inside the Democratic Party are rising. Read more: Rural Frustration…
Read MoreVideo: Children From 1994 Are Shown the Future
If you are longing for a simpler time that is now gone forever, this video will likely hit HARD… 🥲 pic.twitter.com/xJcp4i9GKw — John Ziegler (@Zigmanfreud) March 8, 2026
Read MoreGOP-led fight over allegations of student indoctrination raises tensions at University of Houston
By Jessica Priest, The Texas Tribune March 9, 2026 After two legislative sessions in which Republican lawmakers hammered universities as bastions of liberal indoctrination, campuses across Texas are restricting how race and gender can be taught and requiring instructors to present controversial subjects in a “balanced” way. At the University of Houston, some deans have…
Read MoreQuestions about self-driving cars amplify after one blocked an ambulance responding to Austin shooting
By Joshua Fechter, The Texas Tribune March 9, 2026 A viral image from the March 1 shooting in downtown Austin — an autonomous vehicle blocking an ambulance from reaching the scene where a gunman fatally wounded three people and injured 15 others — has put a spotlight on driverless cars as they hit the streets…
Read MoreTexas hemp businesses fear an uptick in police raids after more than 15 in the last two years
By Stephen Simpson, The Texas Tribune March 9, 2026 Dallas attorney Chelsie Spencer specializes in making sure Texas businesses that sell hemp-derived THC products know how to stay in compliance with state and federal rules and regulations, an area that can be very confusing. She offers them a monthly service where her law firm rigorously…
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