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As the City of El Paso, searches for a new City Manager after firing Tommy Gonzalez, the City continues to make the news for the wrong reasons. It was less than three weeks ago when El Paso saw a surge of migrants trying to cross the border from Juarez Mexico to the City.

After just getting elected to the Texas legislature in 2022, several new hires have resigned alleging a harsh leadership style. Three staff members of Representative Jolanda Jones have resigned. They made up the entire staff for Jones according to KHOU 11.

Earlier this month, former President Donald Trump believed he would get indicted for over $130,000 paid to porn star, Stormy Daniels. Well, Trump didn’t get indicted until yesterday. Since then, Trump continued to hold rallies on his re-election bid for the 2024 president.

A new Texas legislator has come out and is strongly against Operation Lone Star, the border mission started by Governor Greg Abbott two years ago. Texas representative Greg Casar represents Austin and is the son of Mexican immigrants. So you can assume why he is against Abbott’s mission.

Governor Greg Abbott continues to check off the list of objectives he mentioned at his State of the State address in February. The governor is currently traveling across Texas and talking about education, a topic many Texans believe is important for children today.

On Saturday, Donald Trump visited Texas again after he was here just a week ago. In the 2020 Presidential election, Trump won Texas but Biden wasn’t far behind - Trump received 52% of Texas voters to Biden’s 46.5%, a difference of about 600,000 votes. Trump knows Texas is a key State he needs to win again if he wants to get re-elected to the White House.

Three bills are going through the Texas legislature all aimed to allow sports betting and gambling in the Lone Star State. Agencies pointed out that there is a lot of money to be made by companies and the government if gambling is legalized.

It was just a few weeks ago that Houston Independent School District was taken over by Texas Education Association (TEA). This brought a big spotlight on Texas schools. Now another school district is having money problems as they are short $12 million.

Over the past year, migrants from Central and South America were the main people crossing the southern border, legally and illegally. Texas Governor Greg Abbott started Operation Lone Star in March 2021.

While running for his third term in office, Texas Governor Greg Abbott vowed to lower property taxes for residents. After months of campaigning on this topic, last week the Texas legislature presented a bill to lower taxes. Let’s take a look at what they propose.

Donald Trump prepares for one of his first big campaign rallies in 2023. For the event, he’ll be in Waco, Texas, which is about 40 minutes from Austin. The rally is at 5 pm at 7909 Karl May Drive.

In Fort Worth, the term for mayor is two years as compared to four years in other cities. In June 2021, Republican Mattie Parker was elected as the 45th Mayor of Fort Worth. Now she is up for re-election on May 6, 2023.

Last week, Texas Representative Matt Schaefer (R–Tyler) proposed House Bill 20. The bill is also known as the Border Protection Unit Act. This bill will give Texas law enforcement more authority to arrest and detain undocumented migrants. The bill also has the full support of Lieutenant Dan Patrick.

“Texans are tired of changing their clocks and losing an hour of sleep for no reason,” State Representative Mike Schofield (R-Katy, Cypress) said, per a Texas Senate, March 11, 2023 press release.

This past Tuesday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis gave his State of the State speech. Holding nothing back, he said Florida was the number one state in the country. DeSantis’ speech may draw some comparison to another Republican state, Texas. Governor Greg Abbott has repeatedly said Texas is number one for business as many businesses have moved to the state over the past few years. This is also similar to Florida.

Donald Trump was back for the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC). This time he gave some sound bites as he makes his run for president in 2024 as it was hosted in Maryland across from the Nation's Capital, Washington, D.C.

A Texas reporter was fired over calling the Mayor “Bruh” in a tweet. Meghan Mangrum worked for the Dallas Morning News for less than one year. In a response to Mayor Eric Johnson on Twitter, Mangrum said in a now deleted tweet:

In Austin, Governor Greg Abbott gave the opening keynote address at the Texas Public Policy Foundation's (TPPF) annual Texas Policy Summit on Wednesday. He emphasized the importance of working with the State legislators to help accomplish the goals he outlined at the State of the State address in February.

As the Austin Police Association works on renewing a contract for the local police, the Dallas Mayor is trying to recruit them. Mayor Eric Johnson is running for another term in office and he may not have to work as hard since there are no challengers. Dallas will likely have some candidates run on a write-in ballot when the election comes up in May.

A second City in Texas fired its City Manager. On Tuesday, February 28, the Mayor and City Council of El Paso fired Tommy Gonzalez. Mayor Oscar Leeser cast the tie-breaking vote as El Paso voted 5 - 4 to fire Tommy Gonzalez. The former City manager was given a 120-day notice that his contract was terminated.