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Panel’s move would ease about one-third of Texas’ highway fund shortfall

A specially created Texas legislative panel on Thursday approved a mechanism that, this year at least, will fill about one-third of a highway funding shortfall with energy-production tax money that otherwise would have piled up in the state’s savings account.

Smithsonian digs in against Space Shuttle Discovery move to Texas July 31, 2025
The Space Shuttle Discovery doesn't seem poised to boldly go… anywhere. The Smithsonian Institution is digging in against a proposal to move the shuttle to Houston - part of President Donald Trump's ...
In Austin, top House Democrat Hakeem Jeffries says public awareness is key to Texas redistricting fight July 31, 2025
The top Democrat in U.S. House Hakeem Jeffries of New York visited Texas but declined to divulge strategy to save endangered members of Congress.
Newsom will move to redraw California map if Texas redistricts, teeing up national fight July 30, 2025
The governor plans to go through the Legislature to usher in a map with more Democratic seats if Texas tilts its map to the right, according to a person with knowledge of Newsom’s thinking.
Californians are mostly moving to these two major Central Texas cities July 30, 2025
In San Antonio, more Texans moved into the Alamo City with U-Hauls from: Houston (No. 1), Dallas (No. 2), Austin (No. 3), Brownsville (No. 4) and Corpus Christi (No. 5). More San Antonians are moving ...
'Moving to Texas is over': Podcasters who followed Joe Rogan to Austin rail against state July 29, 2025
In 2020, podcaster Joe Rogan announced he was moving from Los Angeles to Austin with loud fanfare, according to Chron. His big appeal at a time of mandatory masks was Austin’s lax mask requirement, ...