Senator Eliot Shapleigh - El Paso, Texas

Texas Youth Commission officials would not say Monday whether they know who ordered the removal of a key portion of a damaging 2005 report on the West Texas State School sexual abuse scandal.

Eleven states already have . . . interest-rate limits on payday lenders, according to consumer watchdogs, and the payday lending industry considers such rates too low to remain profitable.

The Texas Legislature should immediately give our Public Utility Commission more power to protect Texas' economy and consumers. Without improved regulatory authority, we risk the type of instability that devastated California.

Thrift, prevention, compassion and children: What major political party doesn't claim these among its priorities? The insurance status of U.S. children, however, doesn't give their claims much credence.

None of 13 confirmed sexual assaults last year by Texas Youth Commission staff on youngsters in their care were prosecuted, according to alarming statistics released Monday by state lawmakers.

It's a tight market, so if Perry and the state Legislature restrict research on embryonic stem cells by policy or law, Texas could lose out.

Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said Thursday he will seek "several hundred million dollars" in additional university funding, including student aid, provided universities slow down dramatic tuition increases...

The Texas Tomorrow Fund's prepaid college tuition program is severely underfunded and could be short as much as $3.3 billion to meet its obligations over the next two decades, Comptroller Susan Combs warned Thursday.

Loan sharks are preying on families across the nation, especially in Texas. At the federal level, Congress is helping to protect military families. But millions of other families remain vulnerable.

Closing the achievement gap will be impossible if children enter school ill-prepared.

Just when Kansas returns science to the classroom, Rep. Chisum tries to goad Texas toward the Dark Ages.

All but two of 38 complexes are in a financial bind because their nonprofit developers have defaulted on the low-interest bonds, a Star-Telegram examination found. The bank foreclosed on three of the apartment complexes.

Three “Craddick D” lawmakers from the Rio Grande Valley say they fended off Republican opposition to get a Children's Health Insurance Program bill out of committee.

A major victory in the war on cancer is near.

Some say 10 days to transfer isn't enough before treatment ends.

The appearance of a conflict of interest in enough to raise questions about the governor's judgment.

We must embrace this opportunity. We need to allow science and medicine to guide our decisions.

There is no doubt that the state's businesses have a direct stake in the way Texas children are educated. Today's students, after all, are tomorrow's employees.

Perry team opens up to address questions of origin and propriety.

Progressive policy makes It a model in global warming fight.