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Scandals, some changes in public perception highlighted the year for sports betting
In the six years since the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for states to offer sports betting, each successive year has set a record for the amount of money wagered legally. Another new high-water mark of close to $130 billion is expected by the end of 2024. It coincides with...
Texas lawmakers are scrutinizing university professors’ influence
Conservative Texas lawmakers and power brokers in recent years have criticized university professors for being “woke” activists who indoctrinate college students with far-left teachings and ideas. Now, as state lawmakers head back to the Capitol for the 2025 legislative session,...
Texas Senate to pursue ban on THC products next year, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announced Wednesday that lawmakers in the state Senate would move to ban all forms of consumable tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, in Texas. Patrick, who presides over the Senate and largely controls the flow of legislation in the chamber, said the THC ban would be...
Could Texas do for Alzheimer’s research what it did for cancer?
Two decades ago, state Rep. Tom Craddick could ask a room of his West Texas constituents what illness they feared the most and the answer, unfailingly, was always cancer. A few weeks ago, about the time Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick contacted him about a new blockbuster medical research fund...
UNT faculty slam university for removing references to race and equity in course names
Katherine Mansfield found out that the title of her spring semester course at the University of North Texas had been changed via email. The graduate level class that she taught to seasoned teachers who were trying to earn a master’s in educational leadership used to be called...
Texas’ high housing costs sparked a movement to bring them down
The scene was a familiar one at Austin City Hall: The City Council once again was seeking reforms to curb the capital city’s sky-high home prices and rents, and opponents had turned out in force to try to block them. The central idea behind the reforms: Austin needed a lot more...
Delta-8 hemp and Texas medical marijuana industries to face off in the upcoming legislative session
Jack Stinnett got life-changing news in 2020 when he learned the lump that appeared on the side of his neck was tongue and mouth cancer. He and his wife Karen quickly enrolled him at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, where he underwent five and a half rounds of chemotherapy and 33 treatments of...
Patrick says Texas Legislature will review Deloitte’s contracts after public loan project scandal
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said Tuesday that the Legislature will review all of the state’s existing contracts with the firm Deloitte after it selected a company whose CEO was previously convicted of an “embezzlement scheme” as a project finalist for a low-interest, taxpayer-funded loan program to...
