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With high-stakes election season looming, Texas GOP Chair James Dickey faces formidable opposition
With Texas Republicans months away from perhaps their most challenging election in years, the state party could see an abrupt change in leadership this week as it gathers online for its biennial convention.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says “there is no shutdown coming” as coronavirus cases surge
As the number of new coronavirus cases in Texas continues to rise and hospitals grow more crowded, Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday there is no statewide shutdown looming.
Distilleries, wineries shuttered by Gov. Greg Abbott’s bar shutdown say they should be exempted
The owners and patrons of Ironroot Republic Distillery in Denison hardly consider the business to be a bar in the traditional sense.
Texas classrooms can stay closed this fall without losing state funding if local health officials order it
Photo by Michael Stravato By Aliyya Swaby at Texas Tribune, July 15, 2020 Last week, the state’s education agency released an order requiring schools to open their buildings to in-person instruction five days a week for all students who want it. The order gives districts a transition period of just three weeks at the start
Texas will extend time that schools will be allowed to stay online-only, Gov. Greg Abbott says
Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr. By Aliyaa Swaby and Patrick Svitek at Texas Tribune , July 14, 2020 Texas will give school districts more flexibility to keep their school buildings closed to in-person instruction this fall as coronavirus cases continue to rise, Gov. Greg Abbott told a Houston television station Tuesday. Public health guidance released
Texas hospitals are running out of drugs, beds, ventilators and even staff
Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr. By Edgar Walters, Shannon Najmabadi, and Emma Platoff at Texas Tribune, July 14, 2020 A coronavirus patient in Anahuac was flown by helicopter to a hospital in El Campo — 120 miles away — because closer facilities could not take him. Ambulances are waiting up to 10 hours to deliver
Six things to watch in Texas’ primary runoff election
Polls open in July. Voters wearing masks and gloves. Texans will be voting in the middle of a pandemic on Tuesday in a runoff election originally scheduled for May.
Nearly 80 Texas counties have opted out of Gov. Greg Abbott’s mask order. Others refuse to enforce it.
When Gov. Greg Abbott issued a statewide executive order requiring Texans to wear masks in public, he gave counties the opportunity to opt out if they have a low number of active coronavirus cases.
Texas parents face a frightening lack of information on coronavirus risks in child care centers
With reported coronavirus cases in Texas child care facilities rising quickly, parents face terrifying uncertainty as they try to decide whether to entrust their children to child care centers.
After losing big on Super Tuesday, Texas progressives hope to salvage some victories in July
By Alex Samuels, July 9, 2020; Patrick Svitek contributed to this report. Judging from March, the ideological left wing of the Democratic Party in Texas should be inconsolable. After months of high hopes, the faction ran into a centrist buzz saw in the March 3 primary. Joe Biden practically locked up the Democratic presidential nomination,
Austin’s homeless residents consider Abbott’s camp helpful but say his tweets still stigmatize them
Homeless Austin residents say life at the shelter in the southeast Austin neighborhood of Montopolis is an improvement for them — but still an incomplete solution to life without steady shelter. Eddie Gaspar/The Texas Tribune As the governor latches on to violent incidents to criticize Austin city leaders, people experiencing homelessness say he’s painting them with
Analysis: In 2020’s Texas legislative elections, competition is tricky business
Special interest groups and their lobbyists don't like to campaign against incumbent legislators, for fear they'll suffer if those incumbents return for another session. That "friendly incumbent" policy has spread to lawmakers themselves.
