Our Most Read Stories of 2023

• Fentanyl Flowing Into Texas: A 1,254-mile line — the length of the Texas-Mexico border — has been drawn, and along it, illicit fentanyl is seeping into Texas and claiming lives.
  
  
• Texas’ Rainy Day Fund Projected to Hit Cap for First Time: The extraordinary economic factors that gave the Legislature an unprecedented amount generated record revenues for the Economic Stabilization Fund.
  
  
• Higher Education Enrollment Decline Spurs Reform Proposals: Texas’ booming economy requires highly skilled workers, but higher education enrollment is lagging as the state works to supply qualified employees.
  
  
• Texas Opioid Abatement Fund Council Explores Solutions: Texas brought a lawsuit against several pharmaceutical companies for causing the opioid crisis, recouping billions of dollars that will be used to address the epidemic. 

• Fighting a Fossil Fuels Boycott: Financial companies are boycotting the oil and gas industry in favor of alternative energy. What does this mean for Texas’ public investments?

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