Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing five Texas cities, including Austin, over ordinances that flout state drug laws and prevent police from arresting people found with marijuana, according to a ...
From 2005-2020, now-retired Austin Chronicle News Editor Michael King wrote about city and state politics from a progressive perspective in his weekly column, “Point Austin.” We’re pleased to bring ...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing five cities - Austin, San Marcos, Killeen, Elgin, and Denton - to block their ordinances decriminalizing low-level marijuana possession. In 2022, voters in ...
Austin is one of a handful of cities getting sued by the Texas attorney general over policies that effectively decriminalize small amounts of marijuana. The ordinance has been in effect for years now ...
Like a buzzard scanning the landscape for a wounded creature that might be easy pickings, Paxton pounced this month on Austin ISD, announcing he’s “taking legal action” over schools allegedly ...