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Voter overload? It's time to make election dates uniform in Texas. | Opinion
Gannett via AOL· 1 day agoTexans are familiar with typical elections for federal, statewide and county offices that take place...
Harris County Voters Are Set To Select Who Serves On Appraisal District Board
Houston Press· 5 days agoHarris County voters elected Kathy Blueford-Daniels to one of three available positions during...
Republican-Backed Candidates Take The Two Remaining Seats On Appraisal District Board
Houston Press· 1 day agoTwo Republican-backed candidates were victorious in Saturday's runoff election. According to...
Texas conservatives want to end countywide voting. The costs could be high.
Gannett via AOL· 6 days agoIn Lubbock County, Stinson estimates eliminating countywide voting will require spending at least...
Gillespie County's election worker costs more than double after switch to hand count
The Advocate & Democrat· 6 days agoVotebeat reports on the hand counting of ballots in a Texas county and the controversy over its cost...
The beginners guide to celebrating Juneteenth
Stamford Advocate· 26 minutes agoFor more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in...
Why are Texas Republicans suddenly obsessed with 'lawfare'?
Houston Chronicle· 23 hours agoLast week the Texas Supreme Court released a slew of updates determining which cases it would take...
For the first time, West Texas has a permanent LGBTQ community center
NBC Dallas Fort Worth· 4 days agoPatty Reeves stood centerstage overlooking a park dotted with dozens of people from West Texas’ LGBTQ+ community. The cheerful atmosphere at the fifth annual pride festival ...
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Quartz· 5 hours agoUS passenger railroad Amtrak is breathing new life into private high-speed train maker Texas Central Partners’ dreams to launch a Dallas-Houston line. The ambitious plan of ...
What is Juneteenth, aka Freedom Day or Jubilee Day? End of American slavery commemorated
Palm Beach Post via Yahoo News· 6 days agoFlorida, along with states like California, Hawaii, Pennsylvania and more than two dozen others, does not officially recognize the holiday and doesn’t have the day on official calendars as a ...