The Texas House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a Republican-drawn redistricting map that could create five more U.S. House seats for the GOP. The bill now faces another rendering in the House and must go back to the Senate before it can be signed by Gov. Greg Abbott. House Bill 4, which passed with an […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. An El Paso judge this week temporarily stopped Attorney General Ken Paxton from prosecuting former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s political group, Powered by People, after Paxton moved to block the organization from financially […]
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, wasted no time in trolling the shit out of his primary rival, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, over a letter federal regulators sent Paxton’s Senate campaign demanding that it explain $658,000 in potentially illegal contributions. The Current was the first to report the Federal Election Commission contacted Paxton’s campaign Sunday, […]
Photographer Pat Blashill’s work has been published in Rolling Stone, the New York Times, Spin and the Village Voice. It’s even been featured on album covers for Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Scratch Acid, Nick Cave and others. But when Blashill was just starting to explore photography, he was living in Austin, where he stumbled into […]
Sex work, a consensual exchange of sexual services between adults for compensation, has existed across human history. Around the world, advocates are working to reframe it not as a moral debate but an issue involving labor rights, public health and social justice. Yet in reality, sex workers — primarily women, transgender people and people of […]
San Antonio native Jake Garcia has been at the forefront of the Texas garage rock and psychedelic music scenes for decades now. After cutting his teeth playing in the Alamo City, Garcia relocated to Chicago then Austin, where he joined renowned psych-rockers The Black Angels and started his own psych-rock club, The 13th Floor.
San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones crashed a pro-Project Marvel press conference at City Hall on Wednesday morning, prompting a verbal showdown with Spurs Jesus, a local fan of the NBA team who’s achieved minor celebrity status for his colorful costume choice. Organized by the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, the press conference featured […]
A federal judge in San Antonio has temporarily blocked nearly a dozen school districts from implementing a Texas law requiring all public campuses to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms so that they’re constantly visible to all students. Sixteen parents of various religious backgrounds filed a federal lawsuit to halt 11 school districts from implementing the […]
A massive media merger unveiled Tuesday would put San Antonio TV station KENS5 in new hands and further consolidate Texas broadcast outlets, igniting concerns from media watchdogs about dwindling choices for local news and content. Irving-based Nexstar Inc. plans acquire KENS owner Tegna Inc. in a $6.2 billion deal that will test current federal regulations […]
The Texas Capitol was evacuated Tuesday night due to an alleged social media threat as protestors gathered in solidarity with Rep. Nicole Collier, a Democrat who remains on the House floor in protest rules imposed by the GOP House Speaker. A protest was planned to take place from 7-9:30 p.m, Austin TV station’s KVUE reports. […]