It appears that Texas will not ask the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a case against the state's restrictions on language interpreters at the ballot box, letting a lower court ruling stand. Texas has ...

The Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine building at the University of Houston. Recently on Houston Matters, Craig Cohen spoke with Houston Public Media’s Politics & Government senior ...

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John Cornyn recently stressed that Communist Vietnam, visited by President Barack Obama, needs to improve its human rights record. Cornyn opened his Senate floor remarks, though, by calling Vietnamese ...

AUSTIN, Texas (Nexstar) — The May 7 election is just a few weeks away and there is confusion surrounding one of the propositions that has to do with your taxes. We’ve been hearing from neighbors who ...

Call it the Whack-a-Mole bill. Every time Harris County legislative relations director Cathy Sisk thinks she has killed legislation that would limit the ability of local government to go after ...

There is an energy across the country for dual-language programs and schools providing instruction in both English and a second language -- that language is typically Spanish, the second-most spoken ...

Texas Republican lawmakers introduced language into abortion pill legislation that would prevent state courts from challenging it. Senate Bill 2880, which was passed through the state Senate last week ...

After 104 years of publication, the end for the last Czech-language newspaper in Texas could come in a Williamson County nursing home. It’s there that 82-year-old Joe Vrabel puts out the paper as far ...