Over the past year, about 40 percent of undocumented immigrants caught crossing the United States’ southern border were apprehended along a 300-mile stretch of the Rio Grande Valley. After President Trump dispatched the National Guard to the RGV, NBC 5 Investigates went along to observe the patrols. texas May 18, 2018
The runoff primary elections are here. This week on Lone Star Politics, Julie and Gromer analyze some of the high-profile races happening in North Texas and across the state. Democratic candidates vying for Congressional District 32 face off to talk policy and what makes them the better candidate for the job. Lupe Valdez and Andrew White discuss how they would.
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A bill that would impact the way educators teach social studies and how they explain current events could be on the Texas House floor as early as this week.
House Bill 3979, authored by Texas Rep. Steve Toth (R-Spring), would direct the State Board of Education to develop a social studies curriculum focused on the foundations of the American experiment in self-government, civic engagement, the nations founding documents, among other things.
Download our NBC DFW mobile app for Apple or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. We want history taught. We do want all of the painful, sinful side of history where we ve made tragic mistakes not only in slavery, but in Jim Crow, Toth said. But what we don t want, is we don t want teachers having that on the heads of kindergarten, first, third, fourth graders or even seniors in high school. They re not at fault for what happened in prior generations and that s w
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Fort Worth will have a new mayor for the first time in a decade as voters Saturday were choosing a successor to Betsy Price, the only Republican mayor of Texas’ big cities.
The winner is set to take over a rapidly changing Fort Worth. The city has grown to nearly 1 million residents, and Democrats have made fast inroads in surrounding Tarrant County, one of the GOP’s biggest strongholds in Texas.
Although the race is officially nonpartisan, the crowded field includes Tarrant County Democratic Party Chairwoman Deborah Peoples, who lost to Price in 2019. If elected, she would become Fort Worth’s first Black mayor.
Lily Bao
Bao is a realtor and the Plano City Council member for Place 7, a position to which she was elected in 2019. Bao previously ran for mayor in 2017, losing to LaRosiliere. According to her campaign website, Bao has held several positions in the community in addition to her city council seat, including on the Collin County Myers Park & Event Center Advisory Board, the Plano Housing Authority Advisory Board and the Plano ISD Diversity Advisory Committee. She is also a member of the Plano Chamber of Commerce.
Our recommendation for Dallas City Council, District 8 Incumbent Tennell Atkins faces a trio of challengers.
In the four-way race for Dallas City Council District 8, our nod reluctantly goes to incumbent Tennell Atkins.
Atkins, 64, represented District 8 from 2007 to until he was term-limited in 2015. After sitting on the sidelines for two years, voters returned him to office in 2017 and reelected him in 2019. This year, he is seeking his seventh two-year term.
After Atkins’ 12 years on the council, which have been unremarkable, it is probably time for new leadership and fresh views on economic development, affordable housing, education, the paucity of job opportunities and other persistent issues in this high-need district.