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The Texas House committee investigating law enforcement’s failed response to the school shooting at Robb Elementary released their findings on Sunday.

Seventy percent of teachers in Texas have considered leaving the profession. At the start of a new school year, the nation faces a teacher shortage specifically among K-12 grades.

How could the Inflation Reduction Act help solve the climate crisis? Also, where will those Inflation Reduction Act dollars go? Data analysis says Republican rural congressional districts will get the most jobs out of the act. And as climate change delivers more and bigger natural disasters, how are insurance companies not able to keep up?

When 16,000 Haitians arrived in Del Rio, Texas in September 2021, the humanitarian crisis made international headlines. But the unlikely spectacle at the Texas-Mexico border was just a glimpse of an immigration journey like no other – one that extends more than 10,000 miles, from the rubble of the 2010 Haitian earthquake, through South America… all the way to Del Rio and across the US.

Conscious and unconscious negative attitudes from health care professionals have impacted the treatment and care of people living with obesity. Patients have reported that physicians blame their weight first and treat their presenting symptoms second — if at all.

David Martin Davies explores how Texas Republican elected officials are seeking to block Libertarians from getting on the ballot. Also, telephone bills are going up, thanks to a veto by Gov. Greg Abbott. And being pregnant in rural Texas can be scary due to the lack of maternity care.

In the past nine months, more than 1,500 book bans in schools have occurred across the country. This movement does not come from parents, instead, it stems from Republican leadership.

On Wednesday, President Joe Biden signed the Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act into law. This PACT Act expands benefits for veterans and service members that were exposed to — and inhaled — fumes, debris from large trash fires known as burn pits while serving overseas.

After 20 years of service, Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff announced in October 2021 that he would not seek re-election. With the seat open, Judge Peter Sakai and former Precinct 3 County Commissioner Trish DeBerry fight for the county’s top spot.

Many conspiracy theories in the far-right political platform are not new. Several old conspiracy theories first presented by The John Birch Society in the 1950s have resurfaced in the last few years.