AUSTIN –Attorney General Ken Paxton sent a multi-state letter, led by West Virginia, to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regarding the ongoing baby formula supply issues throughout the United States. This issue has plagued the entire country for weeks on […]
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AG Paxton Challenges Biden’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Fuel Efficiency and Electric Vehicle Requirements
AUSTIN –Attorney General Paxton filed a petition for review challenging the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) corporate average fuel economy standards (CAFE) for certain cars and light trucks. The regulation seeks to impose substantial increases in the number of electric vehicles on roads nationwide, with ramifications that will be felt throughout the automobile industry and our flailing economy generally. Ten other states have joined the petition. […]
AG Paxton Files Emergency Motion with Texas Supreme Court in Support of Pre-Roe Statutes Barring Abortions
AUSTIN –This week Attorney General Paxton asked the Supreme Court of Texas to vacate a temporary restraining order blocking enforcement Texas’s pre-Roe criminal prohibitions on elective abortion. A Harris County district court previously issued the restraining order at the request of a group of abortion clinics that […]
American Legion Holds Double Elimination Baseball Tournament July 8th
Who: 2nd Division Department of Texas American Legion (approximately 22,000 members)/22nd District Department of Texas American Legion (12 posts/4,500 members) American Legion Baseball is a variety of amateur baseball played by 13-to-19-year-olds in fifty states in the U.S. and Canada. More than […]
Your Neighborhood Farmers Market Association Launches Newest Location in The Energy Corridor District
The Your Neighborhood Farmers Market Association (YNFMA), a nonprofit backed by the Texas Department of Agriculture, is opening its newest market Thursday in The Energy Corridor District. The grand opening, starting at 3:30 p.m. on the corner of Eldridge Parkway […]
Harris County Court Blocks Enforcement of Pre-Roe Laws
Houston, Texas (June 28, 2022)— Today a Harris County court issued a ruling that temporarily bans certain prosecutors from enforcing Texas’s abortion bans that predate Roe v Wade. Attorney General Ken Paxton had previously said that prosecutors could pursue criminal charges based […]
Harris County Commissioners Court Approves Burn Ban
Harris County, Texas –Today, Harris County Commissioners Court enacted a burn ban due to an increased threat of wildfires across unincorporated Harris County. There are now 171 Texas counties with burn bans, including Harris, Galveston, Waller, Fort Bend, Brazoria and […]
DPS Identifies Human Remains as 2013 Missing Person from Midland County
AUSTIN – Human remains found in Midland County in 2013 have now been positively identified as Sylvia Nicole Smith following an extensive investigation by the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS). A homicide investigation is now underway. On Aug. 1, 2013, Smith’s […]
Sen. Cruz on the Dobbs decision: ‘Nothing Short of a Massive Victory for Life’
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today issued the following statement on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case: “The Supreme Court’s decision in the Dobbs case, […]
Local Teens Launch the 12K Project to Support Food Banks
By Emily Saxton Founded by Tompkins High School students Neha Gadde and Hridha Mathuria, the 12k Project is a community service initiative making a difference in the greater Houston area. Backed by Future Business Leaders of America, the project […]
