Temple Stands Together demanded answers from City Hall. Its own campaign-finance records now leave a different set of questions unanswered. Temple Stands Together was founded on a simple premise: local government should be watched. Its Texas nonprofit filing describes the organization as a political watchdog dedicated to citizen education, lobbying, legal action and, when necessary, …
Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial has focused attention on the medications she received before killing her three children. But the more important question may be what her treatment reveals about a mental-health system trying to manage a deteriorating patient one prescription at a time. By the time Lindsay Clancy sat down with her psychiatrist on Jan. …
Minnesota says Gov. Greg Abbott is violating the Constitution by withholding the extradition of an ICE agent charged with assault. Abbott first raised a legal objection. Then he attached an unrelated political demand. Interstate extradition is not normally exciting. One state charges someone with a crime. The accused is found in another state. The governor …
Automated license plate readers were sold as tools for finding stolen cars and wanted suspects. As those cameras become part of nationwide, AI-searchable networks, the harder question is what government should be allowed to learn from the millions of vehicles they photograph. For years, the debate over automated license plate readers could be reduced to …
One case challenges the state’s authority to classify manufactured cannabinoids such as Delta-8 as controlled substances. Another argues Texas health agencies effectively rewrote the state’s hemp law through new testing standards and licensing fees. Texas’ latest crackdown on intoxicating hemp has moved from rulemaking into two separate court fights. The cases challenge different parts of …
Beginning July 31, the legal status of a cannabinoid product may depend on its chemistry—not where it was purchased, how it was labeled, or whether it was legal when the customer bought it. For years, Texans could walk into a convenience store, smoke shop, liquor store, or specialty retailer and purchase products labeled Delta-8, Delta-10, …
For more than a century, America has repeatedly learned the same lesson: prohibiting a popular intoxicant does not eliminate demand. It moves that demand into an illegal market, strips away quality controls, empowers criminal suppliers, and forces law enforcement to spend enormous resources policing private behavior. Alcohol prohibition did not create a sober America. It …
