Overall, Austin, Colorado and Fayette County remain a Republican bastion. Their numbers and so many small counties in Texas continue to be conservative. Will this remain the trend or will people moving in from the bigger cities and from less conservative states eventually erode the bright red?
Over several years many of the vendors set up outside the courthouse square at Ladies’ Night Out and Magnolia Day Celebration have commented that due to the large vehicles parking on Milam Street between Walnut/90 and Spring Street do not allow much visibility to the people shopping in that area. These vendors have paid fees and electric accessibility. They deserve open visibility.
Voter turnout in the midterm elections again dropped statewide, with just over 45% of registered voters either casting ballots early or at the polls on Nov. 8. Republican candidates continued to hold a hammerlock on statewide positions, with incumbent Gov. Greg Abbott handily winning a third term over challenger Beto O’ Rourke.
Everything really is bigger in Texas. Texas is 268,596 square miles.
Texas public schools would have to install panic buttons in classrooms and ensure all doors and windows are locked and monitored under new proposed safety standards released last week by the Texas Education Agency.
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