Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, as head of the Senate, is one of the most influential of Capitol power brokers – nothing gets on the ...

Displaying a single version of the Ten Commandments would violate the First Amendment. So how about putting up moral codes ...

Dozens of people who signed up to speak were ready at 4 a.m. to debate whether public school classrooms should have to ...

Texas lawmakers made big headlines when they passed an Education Savings Account bill — often called either “vouchers” or ...

House Concurrent Resolution 59 in Texas would, if passed, designate April as "Promise Month" for a 10-year period.

Lawmakers at the statehouse have reached a deal to lower property taxes that they believe will pass the Texas House and ...

Should the controversial bill pass, Texas would join Louisiana in mandating that all classrooms display the religious text — ...

“The displaying of the Ten Commandments in our Texas classrooms will bring back this historic ... Candy Noble (R-Lucas), who authored the House’s version of the legislation. State Rep. James Talarico ...

Raj Mankad, deputy opinion editor at the Houston Chronicle, is part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize on May 5 for ...