Photo above — Angela Piazza for The Texas Tribune. By Jolie McCullough, The Texas Tribune Nov. 22, 2022 — One of the country’s largest private prison companies has defrauded Texas by collecting millions of dollars for in-prison therapeutic programming it hasn’t…
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Photo above — Employees monitor the state power grid at the ERCOT command center in Taylor in 2012. REUTERS/Julia Robinson By Joshua Fechter, The Texas Tribune Nov. 18, 2022 — Texas lawmakers and experts who study the state’s power grid aren’t thrilled…
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In photo above, from left: The 10-member Texas Sunset Advisory Commission, meeting at the Texas Capitol on Thursday, November 10, 2022, include in this image Sen. Charles Perry, R-Lubbock; Rep. Justin Holland, R-Heath; Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg; and Sen. Charles…
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Photo above — Tiffany Jones, a former youth prison officer, cries outside her home in Manor when recalling the trauma she endured at the Giddings State School. Credit: Jordan Vonderhaar for The Texas Tribune By Jolie McCullough, The Texas Tribune, Nov. 17,…
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Photo above: Josie and Santos Ramos dance during a Cinco de Mayo parade and festival on April 30. The couple have been married for 49 years and raised their family in Texas City. Credit: Annie Mulligan for The Texas Tribune By Alexa…
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(AUSTIN) — Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar reminds families that enrollment in the Texas Tuition Promise Fund®, the state’s prepaid college tuition plan, began Sept. 1 and runs through Feb. 28, 2023. The Texas Tuition Promise Fund offers parents and loved…
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Literacy is essential to many daily activities, and its importance to individual wellbeing can hardly be overstated. In an era of workforce shortages, it is rapidly becoming an economic imperative.
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State Troopers arrest an undocumented Mexican migrant for trespassing on Nov. 9 as part of Operation Lone Star after he was caught with others on private property in Kinney County. Credit: Verónica G. Cárdenas for ProPublica/The Texas Tribune By Jolie McCullough, The…
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Photo above, pictured from left are Evan Smith, chief executive officer of Texas Tribune; Dr. Guy Bailey, UTRGV president; Jacob Fraire, director of policy and strategy at the Diana Natalicio Institute for Hispanic Student Success at UT El Paso; and…
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