A guide to the 14 propositions on Texas’ ballot
WEBOct 23, 2023 — Proposition 1: “The constitutional amendment protecting the right to engage in farming, ranching, timber production, horticulture, and wildlife management.”. Prop 1 would prevent municipal governments from regulating land use policies in areas with farming, ranching, timber production, horticulture and wildlife management.
Texas has a feral hog problem. Hunting them makes it worse.
WEBApr 7, 2022 — Texas is a hog hunting paradise. Before 2019, hunters were required to have a license to hunt them. But the Legislature got rid of that requirement. Now, only a hunter’s education course is required. “The idea is to kinda remove any of those barriers to folks hunting pigs,” said John Tomeček, associate professor and extension wildlife ...
Hunting Aoudads Is Lucrative, But It’s Also Getting In The Way Of ...
WEBAug 28, 2019 — Valerie/Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Aoudads, also known as Barbary sheep, have become lucrative game in West Texas, but they're also making conservation of native desert bighorn sheep difficult.
Support for ‘Texit’ is still low - Texas Standard
WEBFeb 22, 2024 — A history of secession. The idea of secession isn’t new in Texas politics – the state was briefly a sovereign country after it declared independence from Mexico in 1836. And years after it was annexed into the U.S., Texas left the Union to join the Confederacy in 1861. Jones said an “increasing lack of trust and confidence” in the ...
Three Laws Every Rural Landowner In Texas Should Know
WEBApr 13, 2021 — As long as they follow state and federal law, feedlots and other agricultural outfits are protected from “nuisance” clams under Texas’ Right to Farm statute. Lashmet says anyone looking to buy rural property should know ahead of time that they may not have much recourse if they end up having complaints about a neighboring agriculture ...
Texas is now the nation’s biggest emitter of toxic substances into ...
WEBSep 29, 2022 — From Inside Climate News:. Texas is a notably easy place to set up shop for industrial projects with lots of liquid waste and nowhere good to put it. The state’s waterways are open for business, an analysis of Environmental Protection Agency data shows, to send large volumes of discarded chemicals and industrial discharge …
Plan your visit to the State Fair of Texas
WEBSep 29, 2023 — ADMISSION AND DISCOUNTS A one-day ticket to the fair on Mondays through Thursdays costs $15 for general admission (ages 13-59) and $10 for kids (3-12) and seniors (60 and up). The price goes up to $20 for general admission and $15 for kids and seniors on Fridays. On Saturdays and Sundays, tickets top out at $25 for general …
In 1957, this team of Hispanic golfers shocked Texas by winning …
WEBSep 19, 2022 — They would make fun of our clothing.”. But in 1957, the San Felipe Mustang Golf team traveled from Del Rio to Austin for the Texas State High School Championship game. Against all odds, they became Class A State Golf Champions. “It was a miracle really, because we had no business winning state – and we did,” Vasquez said.
Texas Senate passes legislation to create school voucher-like …
WEBNov 10, 2023 — From The Texas Newsroom: The Texas Senate has once again passed legislation that could radically reshape the state’s education system by allowing families to use public funds towards the cost of private education. The full chamber advanced Senate Bill 1 Thursday afternoon, just hours after approving it in a last-minute committee hearing.
Project Texas: Inside TikTok’s billion-dollar plan to stay in America
WEBMar 27, 2023 — Last week, TikTok CEO Shou Chew answered pointed questions and criticisms from lawmakers – and many of his answers focused on Project Texas, the $1.5 billion plan TikTok is executing in the hopes of repairing American confidence. Amanda O’Donnell wrote about Project Texas for Texas Monthly and joined the Texas Standard …