Ron Nirenberg joins chorus calling for San Antonio to help federal workers taken out by DOGE

San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg is urging the city to help or hire federal workers who have come under the ax of billionaire Trump donor Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an internal memo obtained by the Express-News shows. In a message sent to City Manager Erik Walsh on Thursd

Texas countywide voting bill would allow fewer polling sites

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New poll shows most Texans oppose school vouchers, even if described as 'school choice'

School vouchers — which Gov. Greg Abbott and other backers call "school choice" — are unpopular in Texas, regardless of what terminology is used to describe them, a new poll finds. The survey, released Monday by Washington D.C.-based Z to A Research, asked 1,275 likely midterm voters in Texas separa

With crumbling public health infrastructure, rural Texas scrambles to respond to measles

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Five years ago, Melanie Richburg used a roll of duct tape, a HEPA filter and a portable fan to draw contaminated air out of a hospital room where patients were tested for the