Texas

Dallas business interests stacked the school board. Now, a rule change could open the door for wholesale school privatization.

Advocates face the task of bringing the hundreds of jails and parole boards throughout the state up to speed.

As Denton seeks to become the first city in Texas to ban fracking, the industry is trying to frame the fight in economic terms. But that turns out to …

I want my daughter to come of age in a world where she is not a second-class citizen.

ALEC's 40th annual meeting in Chicago was met by over a thousand protesters. Local groups in Texas are planning protest activities for Wednesday, July 30.

Are we to sell reality for a phantom?

The Denton, Texas city council failed to pass a fracking ban in after an eight-hour meeting residents called “theater.”

Some of the best “Muck Reads” we read this week.

On the outskirts of Houston, Texas, a small farm that runs a community-supported agriculture operation and offers educational programs, is preparing people for the intensifying impacts of anthropogenic climate …

A foreign oil company convicted of polluting a Texas community's air with dangerous chemicals has gotten off easy in a criminal case that could undercut the prosecution of environmental …