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How to prepare for more layoffs, inflation and a slowing economy

Homes available for sale in the Cartwright Ranch by D.R. Horton community in Crandall, Texas. Recent economic indicators signal a slowdown, and...

27.11.2025 3

Chris Tomlinson

Why do politicians run campaigns they will likely lose? The thrill of it?

Mike Collier speaks while running for lieutenant governor as a Democrat in 2022. U.S. Senator John Cornyn comments on the possibility of bringing a...

21.11.2025 10

Chris Tomlinson

How the Alamo's former boss is fighting Dan Patrick for free speech

Former president and CEO of Alamo Trust, Kate Rogers, speaks at a news conference in Alamo Plaza on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick...

20.11.2025 20

Chris Tomlinson

Abbott promises to gut property taxes for public schools, starving them to death

Seniors from the Harmony School of Innovation-Katy Class of 2025 listen to the commencement keynote speaker during graduation ceremonies held May 22,...

14.11.2025 40

Chris Tomlinson

From Cy-Fair to San Antonio, voters sent the Texas GOP a message

Gov. Greg Abbott and his most prominent Democratic challenger, state Rep. Gina Hinojosa, quickly sought to frame Tuesday’s election results in New...

07.11.2025 7

Chris Tomlinson

1 million Texans will lose health insurance under current Republican budget plan

Pages from the U.S. Affordable Care Act health insurance website healthcare.gov are seen on a computer screen in New York, Aug. 19, 2025. Texas...

31.10.2025 10

Chris Tomlinson

Alamo Help Wanted! Only fantasists need apply

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick speaks as officials and guests gather for the unveiling of the Alamo's new Palisade Exhibit on Friday, Dec. 17, 2021. ...

29.10.2025 20

Chris Tomlinson

Why Texas needs new ethics rules around contractor donations

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a “Get out the Vote” event at Cypress Trail Hideout in Cypress on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2025. State contractors...

24.10.2025 30

Chris Tomlinson

Trump’s visa policies will cut legal immigration. Only the wealthy are welcome.

President Donald Trump's latest proclamations reveal a crackdown on legal pathways into the country while selling citizenship to the highest bidder....

03.10.2025 10

Chris Tomlinson

I tried ‘gas station heroin’. Now I know why FDA wants to outlaw 7-OH.

A package of 7-Hydro pills sold in convenience stores across Texas. Public health officials and the Global Kratom Coalition warn that products such as...

26.09.2025 10

Chris Tomlinson

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth doesn't want reporters — only stenographers

You're reading an excerpt from Tomlinson's Take, a weekly newsletter from columnist Chris Tomlinson. Sign up to get the full version of next week's...

25.09.2025 10

Chris Tomlinson

Trump policies hurt Texans, boost China’s clean energy business

Texas pumps 881 million tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere annually, a figure that keeps climbing. We’ll soon have no idea how much...

19.09.2025 10

Chris Tomlinson

Texas is running out of water — and Corpus Christi is the first warning sign

Texas Rep. Cody Harris stands in his office in Palestine on Thursday, July 31, 2025. Rep. Harris is proposing to overhaul the state’s “Right to...

13.09.2025 20

Chris Tomlinson

Why Trump’s mortgage fraud investigations should include Ken Paxton

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, left, greets former President Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Robstown, Texas, on Oct. 22, 2022. (Brandon...

10.09.2025 20

Chris Tomlinson

$1.1 trillion in Texas real estate is at risk, owners are unprepared for weather

Eighteen inches of water flooded Bill Cook’s house in Northwest Houston during Hurricane Harvey. He’s spent years pushing for stronger homeowner...

06.09.2025 10

Chris Tomlinson

Trump’s energy market meddling halts $18.6B in projects, raising bills

Wind turbine components sit at New London State Pier, April 16, 2025, in New London, Conn. Trump’s campaign against clean energy has killed $18.6...

03.09.2025 20

Chris Tomlinson

Texas-based Sage Geosystems uses fracking and CO2 to generate clean energy

A schematic of Sage Geosystems' technology for an advanced geothermal well using a critical CO2 turbine. A schematic of the Sage Geosystems technology...

30.08.2025 10

Chris Tomlinson

Only one mayor questions $10B in spending on five downtown convention centers

Renderings show an update on Houston First Corporation's plan to expand the George R. Brown Convention Center and create a green space that connects...

27.08.2025 2

Chris Tomlinson

Texas women are quitting top jobs, program aims to boost promotions

The downtown Houston skyline. Downtown San Antonio. The number of women holding the top jobs at U.S. corporations is dropping after decades of...

20.08.2025 4

Chris Tomlinson

Why Tesla should dump Elon Musk as CEO before he flames out

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference with Elon Musk in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, May 30, 2025, in Washington. A...

09.08.2025 4

Chris Tomlinson

Why Gov. Greg Abbott will end democracy in Texas to help Trump

Gov. Greg Abbott promised this week to end democracy in Texas, one way or another. Texas’ Republican leader, surely considering his own presidential...

06.08.2025 30

Chris Tomlinson

Texas' record use of solar power proves the grid relies on renewable energy

A solar array is seen Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, at the Blue Jay solar and storage plant in Iola. A photovoltaic cell is shown at Elin Energy’s solar...

02.08.2025 10

Chris Tomlinson

AI scooped on a politician’s affair, but do bots have free speech rights?

Texas state Rep. Giovanni Capriglione in a 2014 file photo. Allegations that the Republican lawmaker had a lengthy affair with a stripper have raised...

30.07.2025 10

Chris Tomlinson

Republicans don’t trust Texans with THC, forcing them into medical marijuana

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick speaks at a press conference at the Texas Capitol on June 23 in response to Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to veto Senate...

26.07.2025 40

Chris Tomlinson

Texas lawmakers are redrawing political maps to rig 2026 elections

Texas legislators' 2021 redistricting proposal for congressional districts TX Cong Districts_PROPOSED A map of Texas House Districts 28, 15 and 34 in...

23.07.2025 30

Chris Tomlinson

Company behind Chick-o-Sticks, Long Boys navigates tariffs and immigration laws

Austin Atkinson, regional sales manager Western USA, holds a photo of his great-grand father, Basil Eric Atkinson, as he talks about the man who...

19.07.2025 5

Chris Tomlinson

Investigations into Hill Country floods spark debate over journalism

First lady Melania Trump, from left, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and President Donald Trump are briefed on flood damage in Kerrville om July 11. One...

16.07.2025 8

Chris Tomlinson

Trump’s push for self-reliance will hurt U.S. and Texas economies

Cross-border trade is under threat as President Trump promises higher tariffs. A sign of how much Texas imports and exports: Trucks entering the...

12.07.2025 8

Chris Tomlinson

Tomlinson: Flood deaths were preventable — but officials ignored the warnings

Scientists warned us. Similar tragedies have already killed thousands. Yet our leaders still shift the blame and refuse to acknowledge what’s...

08.07.2025 5

Chris Tomlinson

Philanthropists face upheaval under Trump, says heir to fracking fortune.

08/15/2001 - George Mitchell has sold his company. This story is a profile and retrospective of his remarkable career, which includes developing The...

05.07.2025 20

Chris Tomlinson

Credit card rewards points take from the poor, give to the rich

Credit cards offer all kinds of rewards to attract your business, yet most Americans will pay at least $300 more a year in fees than they receive in...

02.07.2025 4

Chris Tomlinson

Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill would be bad news for Texas

President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” is turning out to be pretty ugly for Texans. The president’s signature legislation,...

28.06.2025 20

Chris Tomlinson

Abbott moved Texas toward legal marijuana, Patrick promises fight over THC

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick speaks at a press conference at the Texas Capitol in response to Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to veto Senate Bill 3, which...

25.06.2025 20

Chris Tomlinson

Texas is the worst state for health access and affordability

A health worker administers a measles test on Fernando Tarin, of Seagraves, Texas, at a mobile testing site outside Seminole Hospital District. A sign...

21.06.2025 50

Chris Tomlinson

President Donald Trump is not a peacenik, and other things I got wrong

Farm workers gather produce on Thursday, June 12, 2025, in Moorpark, Calif. U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at the G7 Summit in Kananaskis,...

18.06.2025 10

Chris Tomlinson

Medical marijuana firms hired GOP lobbyists to push THC ban, protect business

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick speaks about a range of intoxicating THC products available in Texas to illustrate his concerns that seemingly harmless snacks...

14.06.2025 30

Chris Tomlinson

What Trump’s China trade talks in London have to do with the Texas economy

A general view of the Lancaster House, where the trade talks between the U.S. and China are taking place is seen, in London, Monday, June 9, 2025....

11.06.2025 20

Chris Tomlinson

Pride events suffer from cowardly CEOs, while a banker sells out the climate

“Y’all means all.” A transgender pride flag at the Texas Capitol in Austin. People wave Pride flags as they line a staircase at the Texas...

07.06.2025 4

Chris Tomlinson

Dan Patrick loses temper and goofs up in Texas Legislature’s final week

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick presides over the Senate at the Capitol on the first day of the 89th Legislative Session Tuesday January 14, 2025. Lt. Gov. Dan...

04.06.2025 10

Chris Tomlinson

Elon Musk leaves Trump by slamming budget bill, when will he ever learn?

Hey Elon, I hope you learned your lesson. Like so many CEOs before him, Elon Musk offered up engineering solutions to political problems and...

31.05.2025 4

Chris Tomlinson

Texas electric grid shows improvement, despite lawmakers’ misguided efforts

Wind turbines operate next to a field of flowers Friday, July 8, 2022, near Garden City. A pumpjack is obscured by the heat as it operates on dry...

28.05.2025 5

Chris Tomlinson

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick passes his THC ban, strikes against personal freedom

Army veteran, Ty Cobb, shops for CBD gummies which he says helps reduce his anxiety at Rock N' Roll It Vape Shop on Saturday February 25, 2023 in...

24.05.2025 10

Chris Tomlinson

Trump budget cuts popular programs, but not the deficit, adding to financial cri

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, voted “present” on the Republican budget bill, allowing the budget reconciliation to move out of committee. On Twitter,...

21.05.2025 6

Chris Tomlinson

Trump the peacenik? He hates wars and strikes deals to win a Nobel Peace Prize.

Make deals, not war! Donald Trump may be the first pacifist president since Jimmy Carter. Four months into his second term, Trump has exhibited, if...

17.05.2025 10

Chris Tomlinson

Texas law would promote racial profiling and discourage investment

Rep. Gene Wu delivers remarks inside the House Chamber at Texas State Capitol in Austin, Thursday, March 13, 2025. Wu opposes Senate Bill 17, which...

14.05.2025 6

Chris Tomlinson

Dan Patrick’s university thought police law progresses in the Texas Legislature

President Donald Trump greets Lt. Gov. of Texas Dan Patrick during a National Day of Prayer event in the Rose Garden of the White House, Thursday, May...

10.05.2025 30

Chris Tomlinson

Why Texas homeowners will face higher insurance rates, even with new laws

Gabriel Gomez, 46, helps clean up a homes within the West Houston Mobile Home Community that was recently destroyed by Hurricane Beryl on Thursday,...

07.05.2025 7

Chris Tomlinson

The Vietnam War transformed the U.S. Army; those lessons apply today

An infantryman points out a suspicious shadow in a tree to his machine gunner as they move on patrol near the Cambodian Border in Vietnam in 1966. ...

30.04.2025 4

Chris Tomlinson

Trump’s layoffs, taxes and suppression triggering Texas opposition

Hundreds of protesters gathered at Houston City Hall on Saturday in another demonstration of Trump Administration policies. Republicans don’t...

26.04.2025 5

Chris Tomlinson

Texas lawmakers want to weaken free speech protections, encourage more lawsuits

State Sen. Bryan Hughes, R-Mineola, and Perla Hopkins, a former teacher and Republican candidate for Texas House who supported Senate Bill 797, which...

23.04.2025 10

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