The Texas Constitution, one of the longest in the country, has been amended 517 times since its adoption in 1876. Over the years, the Texas Legislature has proposed 700 amendments with a success rate ...

A semi-retired Waco community college instructor has taken up one of the toughest tasks in state government: cleaning up the Texas Constitution. Roy Walthall, who for decades has taught students at ...

From biennial legislative sessions to pauper's wages for lawmakers, Texas is the nation's leading outlier when it comes to self-governance. A lot of that goes back to the state's inherent distrust of ...