Protesters gather at Texas Capitol to rally against Trump administration immigration, deportation policies
The Austin Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) and other groups organized the protest outside the state Capitol. PSL is ...
Will the feds pick up the tab for Texas’ $11 billion border crackdown? Republicans are pushing it
Gov. Greg Abbott, who has urged congressional leaders to pay the state, is set to visit Capitol Hill Wednesday.
From the Statesman archives: Railroad, freedom colonies changed Austin after Civil War
The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...
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The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’s Death Row
Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...
UT-Dallas students launch alternative newspaper after clash with administration
Students at the university created their own news organization — The Retrograde — after they reached an impasse with ...
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Look inside the modern new structure on the Capitol Campus: Irving R. Newhouse Building
The new Irving R. Newhouse Building formally opened in December 2024 and houses the Washington State Senate and staff.
A US Congressman, his enslaved half-brothers and the history of an Austin log farmstead
Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...
Safe Communities awards winners
The Scott County Safe Communities Coalition presented the awards for its first-ever Seat Belt Challenge earlier this month. The awards were presented to schools and students who promoted seat-belt use ...
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Ten Commandments monument would return to State Capitol under new legislation
Legislation has been filed which would return the granite Ten Commandments monument, given to the Commonwealth of Kentucky ...