When the results of the Texas A&M University election for student body president (SBP) were finalized this morning, one candidate had already made an impact–even though he lost the election. Jose Luis Zelaya was a candidate for SBP for many different reasons, from improving student services to promoting access to More…
The Texas Freedom Network (TFN) was originally founded by former Gov. Ann Richards’ daughter Cecile Richards as a counter to the religious right in Texas. While Richards is now president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the TFN has continued with the work she started. According to the organization’s website More…
The debate surrounding higher education in Texas has affected the state’s colleges in different ways, and now it appears that the faculty at the University of Texas (UT) System colleges are the focus of a new reform. A move to change the way professor tenure is reviewed–supported by the administration–received mixed More…
After a year in the South Texas Detention Complex in Pearsall, Texas, Nazry Mustakim is finally at home with his wife, Hope. Nazry, or Naz, as his family and friends call him, has spent the last year navigating the complicated US immigration system, with the hopes of regularizing his immigration More…
More…It is among several bills that are introduced during every session of Congress, but it never receives a committee hearing much less makes it to a vote by the full House or Senate. However, a bill to make English the official language of the United States might get a hearing
In late spring of 1916, 15,000 residents of Waco, Texas, gathered to publicly and brutally lynch Jesse Washington, a 17-year-old black youth. After a trial lasting only an hour, Washington was found guilty by an all-white jury in just four minutes for the rape and murder of the wife of More…
Prior to 2009, undocumented immigrant families were detained in a private prison facility in Taylor, Texas. The T. Don Hutto Residential Center, owned by Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), profited from a government contract to imprison undocumented families. After the ACLU of Texas sued the T. Don Hutto Center and More…
When Texas voters will get to make their choice in the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate is still undecided, but the candidates and outside groups have raised and spent millions of dollars during the wait. Ted Cruz, the former solicitor general of Texas, trails by 18 points in the More…
Since the end of the Iraq War and the beginning of the end of the war in Afghanistan, the defense industry is looking for new ways to cash in on government contracts. The Associated Press reported that since the 9-11 terrorist attacks, annual defense industry profits have nearly quadrupled More… and
Now that Texas Gov. Rick Perry is out of the national spotlight, it’s back to business as usual in Texas. Last week Perry appointed John Walker More… to the Board of Regents for the Texas Tech University System. With this appointment Perry continues his long tradition of appointing campaign donors to
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer famously wagged her finger at President Obama when he visited the state a week ago. Today, though, it is Brewer who is on the receiving end of a scolding as the Latino community rises up in protest against a law banning ethnic studies in the state’s More…
Even as authorities continue to stifle the public protest, the Occupy Movement has found new venues for activism. The movement has grown on college campuses around the country. From the organization of an Occupy UMASS to the continued activism of students at Occupy UC Davis More…, college campuses
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board will likely implement a policy change this week to the so-called Texas version of the DREAM Act, which allows undocumented immigrants to pay in-state tuition while attending college in Texas. In a meeting scheduled for Thursday More…, Jan. 26, at the THECB offices in
A recent report by Progress Texas More… claimed that the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) is the “home away from home” for the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). The report says that “ALEC and TPPF are closely linked and regularly work hand-in-hand to promote the profits of global corporations over creating
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