10/09/2024 Legislative Intern Senator Nathan Johnson State Legislature Senator Johnson's office is seeking interns for the 89th Legislative Session. The Legislative Intern will support the ...

Iron Triangles, also called subgovernments, are informal subunits of government built on mutually reinforcing exchange relationships among each triangle's participants. Such mutual back-scratching may ...

Unlike most western states, Texas today has almost no Indian lands, the result of systematic warfare by Texas and the United States against indigenious groups in the nineteenth century that decimated ...

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 ...

Policy making is a cyclical process. It begins in the agenda setting stage with recognition and definition of a significant public problem and an organized call to government action. In response, the ...

In 1991, Speaker Gibson D. 'Gib" Lewis (1937-) became the first individual in Texas history to be elected presiding officer of the House of Representatives for five terms. Lewis, an 11-term legislator ...

Mobile people vote less when faced with restrictive registration and residency requirements. All states today require that a voter be 18 years old by election day, a U.S. citizen, and a legal resident ...

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 ...

The population of Texas has grown one-hundred fold in the century and a half since statehood and changed dramatically in composition. In 1850, almost 70 percent of the state's 212,592 inhabitants were ...

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 ...

Property and sales tax rates are generally the same for everybody. The 2005 state sales tax rate in Texas was 6.25 percent for the state rate. But existing law also allows up to 2 percent more for ...