STATE CAPITAL HIGHLIGHTS By Gary Borders Customs and Border Patrol and reported by The Texas Tribune. Border Patrol agents apprehended 83,356 migrants in June across the southern border, down from 117,901 in May and the lowest since January 2021, the month President Joe Biden took office. “Recent bo...

Hindsights After a lifetime of taking electricity for granted, its importance hit me like a 2-by-4 on Feb. 16, 2021, as I sat freezing to death in my dark living room surrounded by a houseful of useless appliances and gadgets. Until the electricity came back on, we had no television, no radio, no co...

More than two million Texans lost power when Hurricane Beryl hit the Texas coast, and Gov. Greg Abbott wants to know why. The Austin American-Statesman reported Abbott has ordered the Public Utility Commission to conduct an immediate study into why the Houston area has again been hit by widespread p...