Senator Eliot Shapleigh - El Paso, Texas

The revision of city's annexation rules will have to wait until September to give planners and developers a chance to hash out a plan that would set the fees to help build firehouses, police stations and other infrastructure on El Paso's fringes.

President Obama's dream of dramatically remaking the nation's health-care system is still a long way from reality. But if lawmakers can reach an accord, one thing is virtually certain: For the first time ever, every American would be required to carry health insurance.

While the issue of health-care reform has divided Democrats in the House and stirred relentless GOP attacks, members of the Senate Finance Committee have seemingly ignored the hubbub, and a presidential deadline, as they huddle daily in pursuit of a breakthrough bill.

Despite the recession, the flow of Mexican immigrants out of the United States and back into Mexico has stayed level, according to a report released Wednesday by the Pew Hispanic Center.

The cost of transportation is even higher for families with two or more vehicles. According to census figures, that is the norm for most of El Paso.

During 29 years as a pipeline unit operator Lauren Titus has never seen a change in retirement programs so massive that it drastically affects the retirement plans of hundreds of employees as the one currently in the works at Western Refining.

A Travis County grand jury indicted state Rep. Ismael "Kino" Flores on Friday, accusing him of failing to disclose income, gifts and property on his state disclosure forms.

Texas employers slashed payrolls by 40,600 jobs in June, the Texas Workforce Commission said Friday, as net job losses accelerated after slowing in May.

Despite budgets ravaged by the recession, at least 13 states have invested millions of dollars this year to cover 250,000 more children with subsidized government health insurance.

Under the Obama administration's economic stimulus plan, needy communities were supposed to be first in line for money to rebuild highways and jump start the economy.

Holding courthouse rallies and kissing babies? That’s old-school.

Trustees of cash-strapped Texas school districts are being forced by budget deficits to consider the thorny issue of rescinding a local-option homestead exemption that some of them granted to homeowners during easier times.

The nation’s governors, Democrats as well as Republicans, voiced deep concern Sunday about the shape of the health care plan emerging from Congress, fearing that Washington was about to hand them expensive new Medicaid obligations without money to pay for them.

The longtime editor of Texas Monthly magazine will team with an Austin venture capitalist to form a nonprofit news Web site devoted to government and politics in the Lone Star state.

President Obama’s budget director on Sunday appeared to soften on the administration’s insistence that a health care reform bill be delivered by August.

Jobs, roads, schools and other quality-of-life issues will be more severely impacted than originally expected as soldiers move into El Paso and help boost the county's population within an inch of the 1 million mark by 2025.

El Paso is already home to roughly 48,000 veterans, and Fort Bliss is bringing many new servicemembers and families to our community. Our goal during the 81st Legislative Session was to assist veterans and servicemembers in El Paso and across the state. I am proud to share great news with you of the policies we fought for and the major strides we accomplished.

The elected sheriff of Dallas County is a lesbian Latina. The leading candidates to become mayor of Houston in November include a black man and a gay white woman. The speaker of the House of Representatives is the first Jew to hold the job in 164 years of statehood and only the second speaker to be elected from an urban district in modern times.

Gov. Rick Perry's border Web camera program is out of money after a first year that fell far short of the goals for arrests and reports of illegal crossings.

What is up with the banks and the rest of the financial industry? The people running this system remind me of gangsters who manage to walk out of the courthouse with a suspended sentence and can’t wait to get back to their nefarious activities.