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July 20, 2026 7:10 PM

With others expected to join, the Midland ISD school board is set to vote on suing the state over school finance

The board’s agenda for Tuesday night includes a vote on a lawsuit “Midland vs Texas” over forced recapture and M&O rates

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July 20, 2026 3:38 PM

Commissioner Miller steps up attacks on Abbott over data centers

"He didn't care," Miller said on his retribution tour against the governor who endorsed his GOP primary challenger Nate Sheets, who is promoting data centers

Outgoing Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller is ramping up his criticism of Gov. Greg Abbott over data centers, arguing that the governor “didn’t care” about repercussions for rural communities when attracting data centers to those areas.

Abbott, who was bragging in Midlothian 7 months ago about Texas becoming an “epicenter” for data centers, has more recently argued in East Texas that rural neighborhoods should be shielded from those developments for now.

Miller, still seething from the primary and long-suffering from an independent streak anyway, isn’t buying Abbott’s sudden change of heart.

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July 19, 2026 1:18 PM

Braddock on KVUE: Texas budget belt tightening request from Abbott could be acknowledgement that a surplus may not be in the cards for 2027

On KVUE TV's "Texas This Week," Editor Scott Braddock and anchor Ashley Goudeau talked about state budget challenges that may be ahead in 2027 given a rough econmomy and exploding costs of tax compression and school vouchers

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