Texas could receive coronavirus vaccine doses to give an initial dose to up to 1.4 million Texans in December, assuming U.S. health officials approve coronavirus vaccine candidates from drugmakers …
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By Edgar Walters | The Texas Tribune
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12/2/20
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A state appeals court on Friday upheld a Travis County State district court order allowing Texas counties to have multiple drop-off locations for hand delivery of absentee ballots, undercutting Gov. …
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By Jolie McCullough | The Texas Tribune
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10/25/20
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Rebeca Huddle is Gov. Greg Abbott’s pick to fill a vacancy on the Texas Supreme Court.
A former Republican justice on a Houston appeals court, Huddle grew up in El Paso and now works as a …
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By Emma Platoff | The Texas Tribune
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10/16/20
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Texas counties are currently blocked from setting up multiple drop-off locations for absentee ballots heading into the Nov. 3 general election due to a temporary order from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court …
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By Jolie McCullough and Cassandra Pollock, The Texas Tribune and Perla Trevizo, The Texas Tribune and ProPublica
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10/11/20
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Early voting in Texas can begin Oct. 13, following the timeline the governor laid out months ago, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, rejecting a request from several top Texas Republicans to …
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By Emma Platoff and Jolie McCullough | The Texas Tribune
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10/7/20
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Voting rights advocates and civic groups have filed two separate federal lawsuits to block Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's last-minute order that allows Texas counties to provide no more than one …
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By Emma Platoff | The Texas Tribune
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10/4/20
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Gov. Greg Abbott threw the weight of his office Thursday behind Republican efforts to limit options for Texas voters who want to hand-deliver their completed absentee ballots for the November …
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By Emma Platoff, The Texas Tribune
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10/2/20
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As Gov. Greg Abbott outlined his latest reopening plan this week, bar owner Greg Barrineau watched in disbelief. Abbott, who announced that Texas restaurants could expand dine-in service to 75% …
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By Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | The Texas Tribune
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9/21/20
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HOUSTON — With two storms gaining strength in the Gulf of Mexico, Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday declared a state of disaster for 23 counties and requested assistance from the federal …
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By Mitchell Ferman | The Texas Tribune
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8/23/20
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The U.S. Postal Service has warned Texas officials that some ballots cast by mail may not arrive in time to be counted for the November election thanks to certain state deadlines for mail-in ballots …
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By Cassandra Pollock | The Texas Tribune
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8/16/20
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With the first day of school fast approaching, athletics officials at major Texas universities are moving forward with a fall football season, planning to bring thousands of fans back to stadiums. …
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By Raga Justin | The Texas Tribune
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8/14/20
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The start of the Big 12 Conference’s college football season will move forward as scheduled, conference officials said Wednesday, meaning four major Texas football programs are free to play …
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By Raga Justin | The Texas Tribune
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8/13/20
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The amount of unemployment benefits coming to Texans remained up in the air Monday as confusion persisted over President Donald Trump’s weekend executive orders designed to provide economic …
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By Valeria Olivares, Matthew Watkins and Patrick Svitek | The Texas Tribune
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8/11/20
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The University of Texas at Austin will kick off the football season Sept. 5, albeit with a stadium open at half its capacity, athletics officials told ticket holders on July 20.
While both NCAA …
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By Raga Justin | The Texas Tribune
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7/31/20
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Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday extended the early voting period for the November election by six days, citing continued challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic.
Early voting for the Nov. 3 …
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By Patrick Svitek | The Texas Tribune
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7/29/20
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Texas students will still have to take the STAAR test next year, but fifth and eighth grade students will be able to move on to the next grade even if they fail, Gov. Greg Abbott announced …
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By Aliyya Swaby | The Texas Tribune
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7/28/20
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Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar delivered bleak but unsurprising news Monday: Because of the economic fallout triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, the amount of general revenue available for the …
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By Cassandra Pollock | The Texas Tribune
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7/21/20
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Alvaro De la Cruz Jr., a recent graduate of the University of Houston–Victoria, has been appointed as a student regent on the UH System Board of Regents by Texas Governor, Greg Abbott, until …
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By Joselyn Hofer | Editorial Intern
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7/2/20
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Thursday issued an executive order that requires all Texans in counties with 20 or more cases of COVID-19 to wear a face mask or other covering in public.
This means the …
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FROM STAFF REPORTS
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7/2/20
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HOUSTON — At Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital on Sunday, the medical staff ran out of both space for new coronavirus patients and a key drug needed to treat them. With no open beds at the public …
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BY CHARLES ORNSTEIN, PROPUBLICA AND MIKE HIXENBAUGH, NBC NEWS | THE TEXAS TRIBUNE
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7/2/20
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