Carla Astudillo
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Austin, TX, United States
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As the share of white Texans continues to shrink, the Legislature remains mostly white and male
In the 2023 legislative session that convened Tuesday, 70% of lawmakers are men. More than half of the Senate and House members are white, and nearly half are white men. → Read More
Texas 2022 ballot: Voting in the November midterm elections
See the full list of candidates in the November midterms, and find out who’s on your ballot based on where you live. → Read More
Here’s how much Greg Abbott and Beto O’Rourke have raised in the race for Texas governor
Democratic gubernatorial candidate O’Rourke is taking on incumbent Abbott in the November general election. Both have raised millions of dollars so far. → Read More
Texas runoff election results for attorney general, Congress and more
Follow The Texas Tribune’s coverage of election results for the primary runoff elections for attorney general, U.S. House and the Texas Legislature. → Read More
Texas 2022 election: Your May 24 primary runoff sample ballot
See the full list of candidates in the Democratic and Republican primary runoffs, and find out who’s on your ballot based on where you live. → Read More
Texas election results 2022 for governor, Congress and more primaries
Get The Texas Tribune’s coverage of election results for the 2022 primary races for governor, attorney general, U.S. House and the Texas Legislature. → Read More
For Texas children, COVID-19 hospitalizations are outpacing vaccinations
Last fall, just as younger Texans received the green light to get vaccinated, omicron came rushing in, sending more of them to the hospital. → Read More
Omicron on track to shatter Texas' COVID-19 hospitalization record
“The situation in Texas is that it probably won’t reach the peak [for cases] until the second half of January,” a top researcher said. → Read More
Texas 2022 election: Your primary sample ballot
The Texas 2022 primary will take place March 1. See the full list of candidates statewide and find out who's on your ballot based on where you live. → Read More
Texas raised $54 million for border wall—almost all from one billionaire
This story is reprinted from The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans—and engages with them—about public policy, politics, government, and statewide issues. The article originally appeared here. → Read More
Texas House proposes map that increases Republican strength and decreases Black and Hispanic majority districts
The Texas Legislature is in the midst of its third special session, which is dedicated to redrawing political maps based on the latest census data that showed people of color fueled 95% of Texas’ population growth over the past decade. → Read More
We annotated Texas’ near-total abortion ban. Here’s what the law says about enforcement.
The law will be carried out by civilians “deputized” to do what the state cannot: enforce its new restrictive abortion law. Here’s where the process is laid out in the statute and what it means. → Read More
At least 87 Texas hospitals were out of ICU beds last week, according to the latest federal data. Look up the ones near you.
Each week, hospitals in Texas report their current ICU bed capacity to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Here’s the latest as the highly contagious omicron variant of COVID-19 spreads and sends unvaccinated Texans to the hospital. → Read More
The new Texas COVID-19 surge could be worse than anything the state has seen yet
“It’s going to be close,” one health official said as a record number of Texas hospitals run out of intensive care beds and warn that they may soon have more COVID-19 patients than they can handle. → Read More
COVID-19 cases are skyrocketing in Texas nursing homes, and nearly half of workers are unvaccinated
Texas ranks 46th nationally for vaccinated nursing home residents and 33rd for vaccinated nursing home staff. → Read More
People of color make up 95% of Texas’ population growth, and cities and suburbs are booming, 2020 census shows
The state’s Hispanic population is now nearly as large as the non-Hispanic white population, with Texas gaining nearly 11 Hispanic residents for every additional white resident since 2010. Those trends set up a pitched battle for political control when state lawmakers redraw legislative districts. → Read More
Energy industry showers Texas politicians with cash after weak regulation bills pass
This story is reprinted from The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans—and engages with them—about public policy, politics, government, and statewide issues. The article originally appeared here. → Read More
Amarillo was vaccinating people at double the state’s pace. Then the effort hit a wall.
Local health officials are trying to boost vaccinations in this Panhandle city and its surrounding counties, which rank near the bottom of the state’s population centers in the percentage of residents fully vaccinated against COVID-19. → Read More
COVID-19 ravaged the state’s border counties. Now they’re leading Texas in vaccinations.
From El Paso to Brownsville, every county along the border is outpacing the state average for the percentage of residents fully vaccinated against COVID-19. → Read More
Is it law yet? See how far some of the top bills have made it in the Texas Legislature
Texas lawmakers filed thousands of bills during the 2021 legislative session. Here is the status of some of the most-talked-about bills. → Read More