ROSS RAMSEY
The strangest regular session in the modern history of the Texas Legislature is ending, but the pandemic shadow that darkened these proceedings isn’t finished with the state’s government and politics.
Texas might be moving from a weird legislative session into a strange political cycle.
Because of the pandemic, the Legislature’s work isn’t done. And because that work isn’t done, the issues and the political fortunes that will be in play in the 2022 election year are uncertain.
COVID-19 delayed last year’s census. Because those numbers won’t be ready for four months, lawmakers didn’t have the data needed to draw new political districts for the state’s 38 U.S. House seats, 31 state Senate and 150 state House spots, and the 15 seats on the State Board of Education.
Jun. 4 BRADENTON Citing property rights and unconvincing evidence that a Florida panther lives in the area, the Manatee County Commission approved a development plan that trades a "dense jungle" for 70 new homes. Residents spoke out against the Marwood subdivision that Pulte Homes wants to build on the northeast corner of 29th Street East and 60th Avenue East, just north of the Ellenton .
Bush made his challenge official Wednesday evening during an event at a downtown Austin bar. Former President Donald Trump said last week that he would issue an endorsement in the race "in the not-so-distant future."
Land Commissioner George P. Bush on Wednesday made it official that he'll run a Republican primary campaign to unseat scandal-plagued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. "Enough.