Texas Senate committee revises school funding bill in last-minute bid to implement voucher program

A drastically different version of a school funding bill that’s being used as a last-ditch effort to enact a voucher-like program in Texas was approved by the Senate’s education committee Monday and could get a vote in the full chamber later this week. The committee, led by Sen. Brandon Creighton, R

Fresh on the heels of its first Grammy nomination, Spoon is playing Whitewater Amphitheater

Time finally may have gone "Inside Out" for Spoon. Thirty years after the Austin-based indie-rock mainstay's founding by lead vocalist Britt Daniel and drummer Jim Eno, it earned its first Grammy nomination — a Best Rock Album nod for the 2022 release Lucifer on the Sofa.

Dwindling legislative clock suggests Texas' cannabis reform bills will die in the state Senate

With a week left in the Texas Legislature's current session, political observers said it's increasingly unlikely the state will see any progress on cannabis reform. Earlier this session, the Texas House passed a proposal to broaden the state's medical marijuana program — one of the strictest in the

San Antonio school teacher under investigation for allegedly telling students to 'go back to Africa'

Northside Independent School District is looking into allegations that a teacher at one of its schools told a pair of students to "go back to Africa" after they declined to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. A teacher at NISD's Hobby Middle School is on administrative leave pending an investigation