Texas appeals the federal order to air condition every state prison, Austin’s school district faces the cost of state intervention, Corpus Christi’s desalination plant is still unbuilt after $50 million, Alberta opens advance voting, and leaders in Scotland and Biafra press for independence votes.
Proposed rules under Senate Bill 17 would let any Texan report a suspected foreign-adversary land purchase and would create a public map of covered properties.
The state finalizes its ninth Texas Energy Fund loan for a West Texas gas plant, local sales tax allocations rise 11.6 percent, senators hear that educator misconduct reports more than tripled, and the Secretary of State moves expedited business filings online.
Minutes of the Fed's September meeting show most officials expect another rate increase by year end. Texas local governments owe $368.30 billion, with $63.71 billion more approved by voters.
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Subscribe NowQuebec voters swept the Parti Québécois into the lead this week on a promise to put independence back on the ballot. It would be Quebec’s third referendum, after 1980 and 1995, and it lands as Alberta heads to the polls on its own question in less than two weeks. Add Scotland, Wales, Catalonia and the coming vote in Nuevo León, and the pattern is plain: people around the world are deciding their future peacefully at the ballot box. Daniel Miller...
The Texians who declared independence in 1836 passed judgment on the people who acquiesced in the destruction of their liberty. Their standard still applies, and it starts with each of us.
