You know that law the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals basically upheld earlier this month? The one that requires abortion providers in the state to meet ambulatory surgical center requirements, even for medical abortions that require no surger...

From the high highs of finally passing grand jury reform to the low lows of tattling on transgender kids in school restrooms, Houston-area lawmakers fit right in with the overall feeling of the 84th Texas Legislative session—overblown, underwhelmi...

Thanks to late-stage maneuvering by the Texas Legislature this year, soon you’ll be able to openly carry a handgun, and campus-carry a handgun, but you generally can’t openly carry your handgun on campus. Except if you want to openly carry your ha...

On Friday, the Legislature finally passed a nearly $210 billion budget for 2016-2017, promising both $3.8 billion in tax cuts and a three percent budget increase over 2015. Conservatives were pleased that the budget also managed to stay well under...

On Friday, the House passed HB 3994, which substantially restricts the circumstances in which a woman under the age of 18 can obtain an abortion without parental notification or consent in Texas. The bill, which would alter the so-called judicial ...

Well, nobody saw that coming. While the Texas House provided smooth sailing for the contentious “campus carry” bill to continue its journey back to the Senate and then to Governor Greg Abbott, its spiritual twin “open carry” had a much more diffic...