This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses:
- Speaker Dade Phelan releasing the committee assignments for the Texas House
- The new House Public Education committee chair school choice activists are optimistic about
- Illegal immigration reaching nearly 160,000 encounters in December 2022
- A state senator arrested in Austin on charges of drunk driving
- One lawmaker’s proposal to hold a statewide vote on legalizing sports betting and casinos
- A bill filed to preclude males from competing in collegiate women’s athletics
- Dallas County lawmakers’ legislative priorities for the 88th regular session
- A pair of bills to raise the age of consent and ban child gender modification
- The fight in the Legislature over ESG and the meaning of ‘fiduciary responsibility’
- A series of bills filed to improve school security and provide mass shooter training for law enforcement
- The ice storm that knocked out power for tens of thousands in Austin
- Ken Paxton’s prepared lawsuit over the endangered species status of the Lesser Prairie Chicken
- El Paso’s new policies to impede criminal investigations into abortion
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Daniel Friend
Daniel Friend is the Marketing and Media Manager for The Texan. After graduating with a double-major in Political Science and Humanities, he wrote for The Texan as a reporter through June 2022. In his spare time, you're likely to find him working on The Testimony of Calvin Lewis, an Abolition of Man-inspired novel and theatrical podcast.
