Voter List Hearing Begins and Other News for February 19

The federal hearing on the Secretary of State’s efforts to identify possible non-citizen voter registrations will continue tomorrow (Wednesday). During today’s hearing, an attorney representing the state said several county officials – not the state – may have...

Key Local Runoff Election Results

Abilene: Challenger Jack Rentz defeated incumbent council member Bruce Kreitler, 55%-45%. Rentz received nearly 1K more votes today than in the May election, while Kreitler received about 400 more votes. The third-place finisher in the May election endorsed Rentz....

Campaign News for May 16

Early voting for the May 22 runoff election continues through Friday. In general, Democratic voters are turning out at the highest rate since at least 2002, and Democratic voters are outnumbering Republican voters for the first time since 2008, the last year in which...

Endorsement and Election News for January 15

Updated Jan. 18 with new information on one of the new filed candidates. The filing period for local offices on the May 5 uniform election ballot begins Wednesday and runs until February 16. Sixty of the state’s 100 most populous cities have at least one office up for...