Elections

Term limits for four council members and current Mayor Ron Nirenberg mean nearly half of the entire city council will be new following the May election.

Michele Carew will succeed longtime Bexar County Elections Administrator Jacquelyn Callanen. Carew previously oversaw elections in Hood and Aransas counties and served as an officer in the Texas Association of Elections Administrators from 2017-to-2021, including as president in that final year.

President Trump revoked a Biden-era executive order that affirmed the longstanding practice of including the total number of persons residing in each state in a census count used for election maps.

Lawmakers in California and other states want to change vote-counting rules to speed up the process. One key question is whether counting can be sped up without sacrificing access to the ballot.

Laura Pressley claims she found an “algorithmic pattern” that links voters to their ballots. But she won’t make it public.

A Republican-backed effort to change tax laws could benefit hundreds of thousands of Texans who depend on tip revenue as their main source of income. But budget analysts warn the move could bloat the country’s already soaring federal deficit.

Even within their own parties, Republican and Democratic candidates are often divided by ideology.

But protestors drowned out his speech as they denounced him for his lack of support for a Gaza ceasefire resolution at city council.

Prop A is a criminal justice reform city charter amendment, but its length and the heated debate about it may make it hard to sort fact from fiction.

TPR’s Jerry Clayton recently spoke with Sam Woolley, author of the upcoming book Manufacturing Consensus: Understanding Propaganda in the Era of Automation and Anonymity.