Gov. Abbott has 18 total items on the agenda for the special session, including four tied to the catastrophic flooding in the Hill Country. But the other 14 issues will affect Texans as well.

Members of the General Assembly are clearing their calendars for a potential special session the second week of September.

The Bonne Terre Board of Alderpersons met in special session Monday evening, July 7, to discuss two topics: the revocation of the business license for the Super 8 motel and the purchase of a new (to the city) fire engine. The revocation took center stage.

Some local union workers at Republic are honoring a strike in Boston by not crossing the picket line, leaving trash in bins.

Lawmakers in Ohio are preparing to override Gov. Mike DeWine’s (R-OH) vetoes on certain property tax changes. Last week, DeWine made 67 line-item vetoes in the state’s $60 billion budget bill. This week,

Now that a task force has unanimously recommended a new 1,500-bed men’s state prison that can last 100 years be built in the Sioux Falls area at a cost of no more than $650 million, the spokeswoman for South Dakota Gov.