Texas Government Newsletter (TGN) was originally published 40 times a year during the regular college school year, as a weekly publication edited primarily for college students who are taking

Texas Government The government of Texas operates under the Constitution of Texas and consists of a unitary democratic state government operating under a presidential system that uses the Dillon Rule, as well as governments at the county and municipal levels. A ...

courses. The publication is typically subscribed to by college Texas-Government professors on behalf of their students to keep their students abreast of current events, politics, and the

Texas Legislature The Texas Legislature is the state legislature of the US state of Texas. It is a bicameral body composed of a 31-member Senate and a 150-member House of Representatives. The state legislature meets at the Capitol in Austin. It is a powerful ar ...

. Each issue is devoted one-half to current events of the week related to the Government of Texas and politics, and the other half to an in-depth look at a single current topic. The publication was founded in 1973 by Charles W. Deaton (Publisher and Editor), an observer of Texas government and politics, and author of "The Year They Threw The Rascals Out". It was then sold in 1979 to businessman and writer Donald G. Martin, and then in 1983 to Thomas L. Whatley, currently Director of the House Research Organization,. In 1996 Whatley sold the publication to a group of owners who changed the name to Texas Government News and changed the format of the newsletter. The original publication and its articles are still routinely referred to in numerous college government textbooks and other publications such as

Texas State Historical Association The Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) is a non-profit educational organization, dedicated to documenting the history of Texas. It was founded in Austin, Texas, on March 2, 1897. , TSHA moved their offices from Austin to the University of ...

publications, and the

Institute of Public Affairs The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) is a conservative non-profit free market public policy think tankAbout the IPA
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at the

University of Texas The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

. In addition, each biennium TGN published a new issue of the "Voter's Guide" series of periodicals on the

recapping the most important votes of the legislative session.Voter’s Guide to the Texas Legislature
Retrieved 2010-05-11.

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