Talk to any old hand about Texas political history, and reference to the days when "yellow dog Democrats" ran the state is bound to come up. Even now, when such animals are an endangered species in ...

Respondents were asked, "How would you rate the job Joe Biden is doing as president? Would you say that you..." Regardless of whom you supported, do you think Joe Biden legitimately won the 2020 ...

(Voters know) that any document that you have to amend 20 times every other year is broke. It's sort of a Texas tragedy, actually, that we can't seem to come to grips with the fact that we need a new ...

10/14/2024 LUNA SCHOLARS PROGRAM Senate Hispanic Research Council State Legislature The Senate Hispanic Research Council (SHRC) is recruiting undergraduate, graduate students, and recent graduates to.

After the Civil War two amendments were added to the U.S. Constitution that explicitly guaranteed the rights of African Americans as citizens. The 14th Amendment (ratified in 1868) prohibited states ...

Jim Henson and Joshua Blank talk about polling and other context in the U.S. Senate race in Texas between incumbent Republican Ted Cruz, and Democratic challenger Colin Allred.

John Bowden Connally, Jr. (1917-1993), thirty-eighth governor of the state of Texas, was born on a farm near Floresville, Texas, on February 27, 1917, one of eight children of John Bowden and Lela ...

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Dorothy Ann Willis (1933-2006) was born September 1, 1933, in Lakeview, Texas. Richards received a bachelor's degree from Baylor University and a teaching certificate from the University of Texas. She ...

When inmate David Ruiz sued the director of the Texas Department of Corrections (TDC), William J. Estelle, in 1972 over dangerous and degrading living and working conditions, he set in motion a ...

Miriam Amanda Wallace (Ma) Ferguson (1875-1961), first woman governor of Texas, daughter of Joseph L. and Eliza (Garrison) Wallace, was born in Bell County, Texas, on June 13, 1875. She attended ...

Just how rational are bureaucracies when they make decisions--and what do we even mean by rational? The ideal view of bureaucracies envisions highly organized and thorough organizations that ...