WASHINGTON – Congressional Democrats from Texas praised their colleagues in the state House on Wednesday for going on the lam to avoid a vote on legislation they oppose. The Texas Democrats praised ...

State lawmakers were heading to Washington amid pushback from across the aisle. For the second time since May, Texas House Democrats will break quorum in protest against state Republicans' push to ...

If two members show up for your eight-member company meeting, they might as well go home. There are not enough key players present to make valid business decisions. Setting a minimum attendance number ...

“I had the lower part of my leg amputated, and I’m in a wheelchair,” said Representative Garnet Coleman (D-Houston). “The logistics of trying to (go to D.C.)...it just was too hard.” Rep. Coleman ...

Laws to change the state's STAAR test, a new bathroom law and steeper penalties for quorum breakers go into effect today.

Since 2019, normal lawmaking has failed in Oregon. It has failed because we have a weird rule in our state constitution which says that if only a third of our legislators, plus one additional member, ...

To meet or not to meet. That seemed to be the question that a lot of Antioch City Council members were unsure of before Tuesday night’s regularly scheduled meeting, which ended up lacking an in-person ...

VAN BUREN -- A contract to house federal inmates and, separately, a $5 per hour hike in the cost for municipalities to keep prisoners at the Crawford County Detention Center, are up for a vote by the ...

FAYETTEVILLE -- Washington County officials are working to draft an ordinance for the Quorum Court to fund a $200,000 pretrial services program to help reduce crowding in the jail. The county's ...