By: Roz Brown, Public News Service – NM ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico residents will have two chances this week to tell the Nuclear Regulatory Commission what they think of a proposed underground nuclear storage facility in southeast New Mexico. Holtec International is seeking permission for a temporary repository between…

By Brittney Martin, Mark Berman and Joel Achenbach, The Washington Post May 19, 2018 SANTA FE — A 17-year-old student armed with a shotgun and a pistol went on a rampage Friday morning at his school here outside Houston, killing 10 people — mostly students — before surrendering to the…

By Ross Ramsey, The Texas Tribune May 21, 2018 Editor’s note: If you’d like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramsey’s column, click here. Poke around on the internet and you’ll turn up article after article about guns and government and politics — the arguments that sprout every time…

By Cassandra Pollock, The Texas Tribune May 21, 2018 After 10 people were killed by a student firing a shotgun and a .38 revolver at Santa Fe High School last week, Gov. Greg Abbott‘s re-election campaign has dropped a shotgun giveaway from his website. The contest, which a campaign official…

By Alex Samuels, The Texas Tribune May 21, 2018 Hey, Texplainer: What do Texans really think about gun control? The national debate on gun control reignited Friday when a 17-year-old opened fire at a high school in Santa Fe High School, killing at least 10 people and leaving another 10…

By Jolie McCullough, The Texas Tribune May 21, 2018 The death of a 16-year-old boy at a state of Texas lockup is now being investigated as a possible suicide, a Texas Juvenile Justice Department spokesman said Monday afternoon. The boy was found unresponsive Friday night at the Evins Regional Juvenile…

KINGSVILLE (May 18, 2018) — More than 1,150 prospective graduates crossed the stage to receive their degrees during three commencement ceremonies held at the Steinke Physical Education Center at Texas A&M University-Kingsville Friday, May 18.                 The graduates from the Dick and Mary Lewis Kleberg College of Agriculture, Natural Resources…

By Emma Platoff, The Texas Tribune May 18, 2018 It was 17-year-old Santa Fe High School junior Dimitrios Pagourtzis, authorities say, who entered his southeast Texas school Friday morning, weapons hidden beneath a long black trench coat, and killed at least 10 people, most of them his classmates. The shooting,…

By Emma Platoff and Alexa Ura, The Texas Tribune May 18, 2018 Told it was breaking the law and asked to propose a fix, Texas seems to have mostly declined. Following a ruling last month that Texas was violating a federal law designed to ease the voter registration process, U.S….

By Ross Ramsey, The Texas Tribune May 18, 2018 Editor’s note: If you’d like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramsey’s column, click here. Derek Ryan, a young Texas voter who also happens to be a political consultant, is finally starting to see some of his peers talking and…