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By Stephen Simpson, The Texas Tribune October 14, 2026 New results from the University of Texas/Texas Politics Project released Wednesday are the first from a major poll showing key down-ballot Democratic candidates for statewide races holding razor-thin leads against Republicans. The survey shows state Rep. James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate race,…

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Real journalists are losing their jobs while money flows into pay-for-play social media. We need a publicly funded alternative. By Sonali Kolhatkar | October 14, 2026 Journalism is experiencing one of its worst crises when it’s needed the most. Overall, news consumption is dropping. And it’s worse among young people, who largely get their news…

By Melanie Evans, Tradeoffs Oct 15, 2026 Aimee Carlock needed surgery in August 2025 to treat severe pain and bleeding from her uterus. But first, she needed to come up with $5,500. Texas Health Resources, one of the state’s largest nonprofit hospital systems, told her it wouldn’t schedule the procedure unless she paid up front,…

By Shalina Chatlani, Stateline October 13, 2026 As the nation’s physician shortage worsens, some fear the Trump administration’s immigration policies will dissuade or prevent doctors who earned their medical degrees in foreign countries from practicing in the United States. Among all U.S. doctors, an estimated one quarter were educated abroad. But they make up an…

AUSTIN – Quail season kicks off Nov. 1, and the annual Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) roadside survey signaled good population numbers going into opening day. Good habitat conditions, along with timely rainfall, helped bobwhite and scaled quail production. “Texas Parks and Wildlife Department biologists covered over 3,300 road miles in early August during…

AUSTIN – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) released the following statement after the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced that fire departments in Northeast Texas were awarded federal grants totaling $710,547 through the Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response Grants (SAFER) program, which will help save lives and keep Texans safe by improving recruitment, training, and…

By Alejandra Martinez and Alex Ford, The Texas Tribune October 14, 2026 In recent weeks, Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton have adopted increasingly tough rhetoric against data centers, promising to crack down on hundreds of facilities that failed to disclose required information about their water use over the past five years. But…

TEXARKANA, Texas – A Texarkana, Texas man has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for child exploitation violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Jay R. Combs.   Caleb Layne Crawford, 26, pleaded guilty to production of child pornography and was sentenced to 300 months in federal prison by U.S.…

From gold in the West to shipwrecks off the Florida coast, America has no shortage of real-life treasure hiding in plain sight. New research from social casino ACE.com has ranked all 50 states based on five treasure-related factors: shipwrecks, meteorite strikes, prehistoric fossils, rare-earth mineral occurrences, and gold deposits. And when all five are counted,…