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Texas Comptroller Don Huffines issues series of "executive orders," raising questions about his office's authority

The authority to issue executive orders traditionally belongs to the chief executive, like the governor or a county judge.

Texans didn’t know their neighborhood was built near an abandoned oil well spreading toxic fumes

As new neighborhoods are built in Texas, residents don’t always know they are living on top of old oilfields.

More than $350M in foster care reforms, oversight, enough to end court monitoring, state tells court

“Substantial” compliance to federal court-ordered improvements should be enough to end 15-year-old lawsuit, state argues

AG’s office sides with community in the fight over public access to an East Texas waterway

A brief on the Cutoff stream, which a billionaire blocked access to, was issued by the state agency in the days leading up to oral arguments before the 12th Court of Appeals.

False pamphlets causing backlash and confusion, Texas transgender rights group says

The mailers, sent by an organization formed last month in Wyoming, implicate a Texas transgender rights group that says it was not involved.