Tag: Texas

Sports remain inextricably intertwined with civil rights in America.

McIngvale has done this before, including during floods last year and during Hurricane Katrina.

While the National Hurricane Center is now calling Harvey the biggest rainstorm on record, scientists have been predicting for years that climate change would result in massive storms like Harvey.

“Not only will SB 4 lead to wholesale racial profiling, it is so vaguely written that local officials and law enforcement agencies are essentially left to guess whether their policies and practices would violate the law.”

Efforts to implement the nation’s strictest voter ID requirements – a solution in search of a problem, according to one critic – foundered amid court defeats, confusion and at least one giant oversight.

How folks in conservative states are responding – and have been responding for years – to infringements on their civil rights.

The threatened funding cuts would affect over 12,000 Medicaid patients across Texas.

The mosque has been the target of hatred before and was burglarized just a week ago.

The actions, along with arrests, will likely continue in the coming weeks and months.

Though some of the water use restriction have been lifted for some residents, two-thirds of those living in the Texas city are still forced to rely on bottled water for drinking and cooking.