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State Rep. Talarico, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, used the event to lay out his “New American Dream” economic proposals. Attorney General Paxton, his Republican rival, made his own campaign swing through Houston last week. -
Texas Democrats are urging the Trump administration to delay its plans for building border barriers and roads across the West Texas park. Bulldozers and trucks bearing the logo of the contractor awarded $1.7 billion for the project were seen in the national park on Tuesday as local activists warn construction could start at any moment. -
The new superintendent of Fort Davis ISD, Jason Crow, made a controversial decision earlier this year to close Dirks-Anderson Elementary School because of the district’s strained finances. The move prompted a staff exodus and local pushback, but Crow maintains it’s necessary to keep the district alive. -
A federal judge on Sunday rejected a Presidio, Texas entity’s request to block construction over claims that the Trump administration violated the Rivers and Harbors Act in pursuing the border wall build near the city’s levee system.
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