Senator Eliot Shapleigh - El Paso, Texas

So that space shuttle on the license plate? Or the cowboy on the horse? Or even the oil derrick? If any of those are even partially covered, a police officer can stop the driver and issue a ticket.

Global climate change is, in fact, a complex subject, and there are no easy, quick-fix solutions. But it is real. Slowly, though, progress is being made, for the first step toward sobriety is admitting there's a problem.

Plans to build 19 coal-fired power plants in Texas need more scrutiny before permits are approved.

As Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott presses for money to go after sex offenders, lawmakers are raising questions about 140 Medicaid fraud cases that are languishing for lack of manpower.

A coalition of political, business and civil rights leaders vowed Thursday to play a significant role in shifting the immigration debate away from the Texas Capitol to the federal government.

The state's once-touted guaranteed college tuition plan, the Texas Tomorrow Fund, could be more than $3 billion in the hole as it winds down two decades from now, according to the state comptroller.

Building More Prisons Is the Mindless, Costly Way to Fight Crime. Texans Have Better Choices. Here Are Some.

The Texas Association of Businesses and Hispanic groups agree that the state has no place in immigration reform.

The governor is seeking an overhaul of the state's financial aid programs, with the goal of encouraging more students to graduate faster.

The board tasked with meeting the state's water needs through 2060 says climate change is uncertain enough that it's not worth accounting for in its long-range plans.

Since the reason the 2003 bills were enacted was to decrease the budget deficit, and since the state now has an approximately $14 billion surplus, perhaps consideration might be given to using some of those funds to provide health care coverage for the state's most valuable asset -- our children.

Bermuda-based Accenture headed the consortium awarded the $899 million call center contract. But problems surfaced early on, such as interminable hold times and operators giving applicants incorrect information. Software broke down and documents were lost, some of which were inexplicably faxed to a Seattle warehouse.

Should a lawyer be required to translate court documents into Spanish if a defendant doesn't speak English? The question has thrust a newly elected Dallas judge into the nation's immigration debate after she set aside a credit card company's court motion

Valley Interfaith leader Rosalie Tristan and her ten year-old son Miguel are fast becoming the face of CHIP enrollment problems in the South Texas.

Emphasizing the slight authority given Texas governors by history, two Austin lawyers say Gov. Rick Perry lacked the power to issue last week's order requiring girls to be vaccinated against a virus that causes cervical cancer.

Politicians are again looking for a way to provide healthcare for everyone in the U.S.

Under the state constitution, the governor administers the law; the governor doesn't make the law. This principle is textbook civics. Making law is for the Legislature.

Basic medical research will serve as the basis for future clinical breakthroughs for generations to come – and in that crucial arena, UT Southwestern Medical Center recently earned the top ranking among all American institutions.

The growing sexual molestation scandal at the Texas Youth Commission took a new turn late Monday as a House leader questioned the qualifications of Gov. Rick Perry's newly appointed special master.

State Rep. Patrick Rose, D-Dripping Springs, said he thinks it's fitting that he's taken the helm of the House panel that will examine the problematic privatization of social services enrollment in Texas.