Shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine are arriving across the U.S. and you may be wondering what are some common side effects? There are now two vaccines currently authorized in the U.S., one developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, another vaccine, developed by Moderna, just received clearance from the Food and Drug…

A recent report by Texas’ Sunset Advisory Commission found that the “state’s current regulation of law enforcement is, by and large, toothless.” …

Democratic hopes couldn’t have been higher for Texas going into the 2020 election season. Just four years after Donald Trump won the state by 9 points, election wonks were teasing the state as a toss-up. …

There are at least 13 marijuana related bills pre-filed for the session, though the odds on all of them passing are long. The most sweeping of them has been filed by Senator-elect Roland Gutierrez (D-Bexar), who won his bid to move up from the House. …

On the heels of third-quarter losses of more than $1 billion, Southwest Airlines has announced that effective for travel beginning Dec. 1, it will resume selling all available seats on its planes. …

UPDATE: On Monday, the City of Lubbock joined El Paso and Amarillo in announcing occupancy rollbacks due to rising COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. Bars will have to close and restaurants and other businesses will be limited to 50% occupancy again. El Paso residents are under a curfew and being urged…

Since news of the latest scandal involving Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his alleged bribery and misuse of office broke nearly two weeks ago, there has been rapid-fire development of details, a lot of which have been obscured by other matters dominating our attention right now such as the…

Texas has added more than 1.5 million new voters to the rolls since the last presidential election. More than 800,000 of those new voters registered since the November 2018 election. With the new additions, there are now more than 16.6 million Texans registered to vote in the November election. …

With information still not available from the state, the Texas American Federation of Teachers has taken matters into its own hands and launched a website to track COVID-19 cases, deaths and unsafe working conditions in schools during the pandemic. …