Texas Legislature Passes ‘Bounty Hunter’ Ban on Abortion Pills House Bill 7 attacks one of the last remaining options for reproductive care in Texas and declares legal war on blue states. Texas Observer · Sep 4, 2025
This Session’s Worst Anti-Abortion Bill Died, but Pro-Choice Advocates Aren’t Celebrating Following mixed results for both sides, the far right says it won’t give up on targeting what little abortion access remains in Texas. Texas Observer · Jun 9, 2025
How a chance meeting helped Texas become the nation’s top beekeeping state Twelve years after a state law gave tax breaks for keeping bees on at least five acres, people are still getting into the trade — or throwing in the towel and hiring professionals to do it for them. The Texas Tribune · Jun 3, 2024
Braving ‘La Bestia’ Asylum-seekers risk life and limb to reach America as President Biden tries to dissuade them. Includes one of TIME's Top 100 photos of 2023. Texas Observer · Nov 21, 2023
Texas power struggle: How the nation’s top wind power state turned against renewable energy. State lawmakers have pushed bills to support fossil fuel-burning power plants and restrict renewable energy development this legislative session. The Texas Tribune · May 25, 2023
TribCast: Is a special session of the Texas Legislature inevitable? In this week’s episode, we discuss the long odds facing the school choice bill and the possibility of Gov. Greg Abbott calling lawmakers back for a special session. The Texas Tribune · May 19, 2023
Gov. Greg Abbott organizes “school choice” rally at the Capitol Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has embraced Senate Bill 8, which will get its first committee hearing Wednesday. But House Speaker Dade Phelan hasn’t made school choice legislation a priority. The Texas Tribune · Mar 21, 2023
Oaths, M&Ms and a historic Quran: Texas’ freshman lawmakers begin their inaugural legislative session New Texas House members were sworn into office Tuesday, including some who have already made history. The Texas Tribune · Jan 11, 2023
Texas 2022: Year in Photos Texas Tribune photographers captured a historic year of challenges and resilience. The Texas Tribune · Dec 30, 2022
Photos: “We don’t feel safe here.” A transgender teen and their family flee Texas. Texas policies targeting access to health care for transgender youth forced one family to leave the state. The Texas Tribune · Dec 2, 2022
Pay raises alone won’t solve staffing shortages in “nightmare” Texas youth prisons, ex-workers say Danger and trauma — not low salaries — are what drive most workers to leave the crisis-wracked Texas Juvenile Justice Department. The Texas Tribune · Nov 17, 2022
Roe v. Wade, overturned: Scenes of despair and joy after a historic decision Texans on both sides of the abortion debate marched, rallied and chanted after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The Texas Tribune · Jun 28, 2022
Mass shootings leave behind collective despair, anguish and trauma at many societal levels The deadly shooting of at least 19 children and two adults in Texas on May 24, 2022, is the latest in an ever-growing list of national tragedies, leaving families and friends of the victims gripped with grief, anguish and despair. The Conversation · May 26, 2022