by Jim Malewitz and Alexa Ura, The Texas Tribune July 12, 2017 SAN ANTONIO — For most of a six-year legal battle, Texas and minority groups have squabbled over whether the Republican-dominated Legislature intentionally discriminated against Hispanic and black voters in redrawing the state’s House and congressional districts in 2011….

(Press Release) AUSTIN –– The Railroad Commission of Texas (Commission) issued a total of 1,305 original drilling permits in June 2017 compared to 656 in June 2016. The June total included 1,131 permits to drill new oil or gas wells, 11 to re-enter plugged well bores and 163 for re-completions of existing…

By: Karolina Walters, Immigration Impact Men, women, and children fleeing persecution, grave violence, and even death arrive daily at Ports of Entry (POE) all along the U.S.-Mexico border and present themselves to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers to seek asylum in the United States. The right to seek asylum is…

by Ross Ramsey, The Texas Tribune July 12, 2017 Editor’s note: If you’d like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramsey’s column, click here. Three federal judges in San Antonio are listening to arguments about what’s wrong and right about the state’s political districts. But you go to elections with…

by Abby Livingston, The Texas Tribune July 11, 2017 WASHINGTON – Texans in Congress largely sidestepped questions Tuesday regarding the firestorm unleashed hours earlier when Donald Trump Jr., the son of the president, released emails showing he eagerly accepted overtures from the Russian government to help his father’s presidential campaign a year…

(Press Release) In Del Rio, a federal judge sentenced 30-year-old Ramiro Martinez to 121 months in federal prison followed by ten years of supervised release for possession of child pornography announced United States Attorney Richard Durbin, Jr. and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden, San Antonio….

By: State Senator Carlos Uresti The temperature in a motor vehicle can rise quickly during the summer, reaching temperatures up to 130 degrees within an hour. Unfortunately, with our intense heat, Texas leads the nation in hot car deaths with 55 children tragically passing since 2010. This year there have…

  (Press Release) After being convicted by a jury of the offense of aggravated assault by a Dimmit County grand jury, Gilbert Cisneros was later sentenced on July 5, 2017, to a period of five years in prison. Mr. Cisneros was found guilty of using a motor vehicle to strike…

by Alexa Ura, The Texas Tribune July 11, 2017 PASADENA — Cody Ray Wheeler has a cowboy’s name. It’s a product, he says, of being born the son of a North Texas refinery worker. In some ways it’s emblematic of a changing Texas: Wheeler, who is Hispanic, represents a city…

by Alexa Ura, The Texas Tribune July 10, 2017 SAN ANTONIO — Embarking on the latest chapter to the years-long battle over the state’s political maps, Texas and its legal foes on Monday faced off in federal court over minorities’ voting rights and the district boundaries the state should use…