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AUSTIN — Texas would significantly bolster mental health, school safety and state parks under a spending plan laid out by House and Senate budget negotiators. The budget package salutes the GOP’s priorities of tax cuts, border security and a pet idea of school voucher proponents known as education savings accounts — though passage of a bill creating the accounts isn’t …

AUSTIN — The Senate on Monday unanimously passed a two-year, $308 billion state budget that stresses property tax cuts, mental health, the electric grid and pay raises for state employees and teachers. While the senators would spend several billion more of state discretionary dollars than the House, they still would leave more than $17 billion on the table, said bill …

AUSTIN — The Senate on Monday unanimously passed a two-year, $308 billion state budget that stresses property tax cuts, mental health, the electric grid and pay raises for state employees and teachers. While the senators would spend several billion more of state discretionary dollars than the House, they still would leave more than $17 billion on the table, said bill …

When Courtney Cecale moved into her North Texas house in the summer of 2020, she was in for a heat shock. The plants in her car wilted and died before she could move them into the house. Her two black Labradors, Carl and Tony, got sick. “There were just very small, minor things that, when you start to look at …