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Op-Eds Harm Reduction, Opioid Harm Reduction, State Policy, Texas

Fentanyl test strips save lives. Why are they still illegal in Texas?

Stacey McKenna Feb 10, 2025 Austin American-Statesman
In the News Bail System Changes, Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties, Detention, Pretrial, Prosecution, State Policy, Texas

Bail organizations, immigrants targeted as Texas lawmakers consider bail reform legislation

Lisel Petis Feb 12, 2025 KERA News (NPR)
Letters Bail System Changes, Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties, Pretrial, Prosecution, State Policy, Texas

R Street Letter to the Members of the TX Senate Committee on Criminal Justice re SJR5, “proposing a constitutional amendment authorizing the denial of bail under limited circumstances…”

Lisel Petis Feb 11, 2025
In the News Artificial Intelligence, State Policy, Technology and Innovation, Texas

States must ‘keep delivering’ amid new Trump AI order

Adam Thierer Feb 11, 2025 Route Fifty
In the News Electricity Policy, Energy and Environment, State Policy, Texas

Cold temperatures are coming to Houston. How will the ERCOT grid hold up?

Beth Garza Jan 2, 2025 Houston Chronicle
Policy Studies California, Central, Florida, Insurance, Insurance Regulation, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, Northeast, South, State Policy, Texas, Western

2024 Insurance Regulation Report Card

Jerry Theodorou Dec 12, 2024
Coalition Letters, Letters Artificial Intelligence, State Policy, Technology and Innovation, Texas

Coalition Urges Texas Lawmakers Against Heavy-Handed Regulation Of AI

Adam Thierer Dec 9, 2024
In the News Electricity Policy, Energy and Environment, State Policy, Texas

Is Texas At Risk For Another Winter Storm Power Crisis?

Beth Garza Nov 21, 2024 KTRH NewsRadio
In the News Artificial Intelligence, State Policy, Technology and Innovation, Texas

Consumer group finds flaws in ‘woke’ Texas AI bill opposed by free-market advocates

Adam Thierer Nov 5, 2024 Inside AI Policy
Analysis Artificial Intelligence, State Policy, Technology and Innovation, Texas

Texas should reject the European path toward AI regulation

Adam Thierer Oct 31, 2024

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