The Legislative Reference Library produces a Daily Newspaper Clipping Service for members of the Legislative community. Each morning, Library staff members select and compile articles of interest to the legislature from over 30 national and regional newspapers.

Headline	Newspaper	Columnist	Date	Related Links
We must provide broadband to Texas schoolchildren	Dallas Morning News	Hinojosa, M.	07/13/20	2 doc(s)
Schools need federal support to reopen safely. The president’s bluster is a major distraction	Dallas Morning News	Editorial	07/13/20	6 doc(s)
No need to wait on Austin for police reform. Local officials can act now.	Houston Chronicle	Editorial	07/13/20	1 TX bill 5 doc(s)
Two Views: Schoolhouse blues: The pandemic and public education	Austin American Statesman	Smith, G.	07/13/20
Two Views: COVID highlights need for more choices in education	Austin American Statesman	Valdez, E.	07/13/20	1 TX bill 1 doc(s)
Prominent and politically connected Austin firms among those getting bailout loans	Austin American Statesman	Price, A.	07/13/20	3 doc(s)
Texas voters against ‘defunding’ police, but more receptive to other reforms to curb misconduct	Dallas Morning News	Jeffers Jr., G.	07/13/20	1 doc(s)
In Texas, federal PPP loans went to a U.S. House campaign, Senate hopeful’s law firm and lieutenant gov’s radio stations	Dallas Morning News	Benning, T.	07/13/20	2 doc(s)
COVID shutdown, budget crisis leave 74,000-plus Texas immigrants unlikely to vote in 2020	Houston Chronicle	Wermund, B.	07/13/20	1 doc(s)
Hundreds of nurses pour into Texas to help fight second COVID surge	Houston Chronicle	Dellinger, H.	07/13/20	4 doc(s)
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner in favor of a ‘step back,’ two-week shutdown to reduce COVID-19 spread	Houston Chronicle	Hensley, N.	07/13/20	2 doc(s)
Fact-check: Can children contract, transmit the coronavirus?	Austin American Statesman	Mekelburg, M.	07/13/20	4 doc(s)
A tie in a primary runoff? Coin flip could decide it	Austin American Statesman	Autullo, R.	07/13/20
More than 8,000 new coronavirus cases, 80 new deaths in Texas Sunday	Austin American Statesman	Osbourne, H.	07/13/20	4 doc(s)
Dallas County reports 1,174 coronavirus cases, 2 more deaths	Dallas Morning News	Branham, D.	07/13/20	3 doc(s)
MJ Hegar, Royce West fighting to become Democratic Senate champ against GOP incumbent John Cornyn	Dallas Morning News	Jeffers Jr., G.	07/13/20
AG’s office argues Supreme Court should side with Turner over Texas GOP, Hotze	Houston Chronicle	Scherer, J.	07/13/20	5 doc(s)
Fact Check: Sen. Cornyn says it’s unclear whether kids can get and transmit COVID-19	Houston Chronicle	Mekelburg, M.	07/13/20	6 doc(s)
When industry moves next door to people	Houston Chronicle	Chapa, S.	07/13/20	1 TX bill 3 doc(s)
Nine more patients with novel coronavirus die in San Antonio; 52 in past week alone	San Antonio Express News	Fuentes, D.	07/13/20	3 doc(s)
What’s at Stake: How to grow the economy	Dallas Morning News	Editorial	07/12/20
Is Dallas-Fort Worth headed for another COVID-19 shutdown? Keep an eye on hospitals	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Editorial	07/12/20	1 doc(s)
Gov. Abbott didn’t listen to coronavirus warnings and Texans died	Houston Chronicle	Editorial	07/12/20	3 doc(s)
Texas failed the COVID test. Our schools don’t have to.	Austin American Statesman	Editorial	07/11/20	1 doc(s)
Big Tex speaks out on decision to cancel the State Fair of Texas	Dallas Morning News	Editorial	07/11/20
Thumbs up, thumbs down	Houston Chronicle	Ed.	07/11/20	2 doc(s)
Don’t restart standardized testing. Instead, rethink the approach.	Austin American Statesman	DeMarco, P.	07/12/20	2 doc(s)
The ides of Texas is upon us; our economic health faces a tipping point	Dallas Morning News	Perryman, M.	07/12/20
Texas’ metro regions represent a massive economic growth engine	Dallas Morning News	Cisneros, H.	07/12/20
Chief Justice John Roberts is not on your side	Houston Chronicle	Lindenberger, M.	07/12/20
Six eyewitnesses misidentified a murderer – here's what went wrong in the lineup	Houston Chronicle	Smalarz, L.	07/12/20	2 doc(s)
How the Trump administration is fighting COVID-19 in communities of color	Dallas Morning News	Azar, A.	07/11/20
A lower COVID-19 death rate is nothing to celebrate	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Nisen, M.	07/11/20	1 doc(s)
In Austin, what kind of corporate citizen would Tesla be?	Austin American Statesman	Sechler, B.	07/12/20	2 doc(s)
Joe Biden builds 5-point lead over Donald Trump in red Texas as some voters sour on handling of virus	Dallas Morning News	Garrett, R.	07/12/20
‘Very, very difficult’: Texas COVID-19 hospitalizations at record high, nearing overwhelming level	Dallas Morning News	Ambrose, S.	07/12/20	1 doc(s)
How Latino residents in Dallas’ hardest hit ZIP code are weathering COVID-19	Dallas Morning News	Solis, D.	07/12/20	2 doc(s)
Almost half of Fort Worth ISD parents have asked for online classes amid COVID-19	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Tinsley, A.	07/12/20	1 doc(s)
Testing and tracing are needed to stop COVID. Why Tarrant County is struggling with both	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Dent, M.	07/12/20	3 doc(s)
'Code blue': Texas COVID deaths higher than publicly reported - and spiking	Houston Chronicle	Deam, J.	07/12/20	2 doc(s)
'We aren’t going away': Oil drilling inside city limits remains thorny issue for many Texans	Houston Chronicle	Chapa, S.	07/12/20	1 TX bill
‘You can always feel it’: Concerns about racism, lack of inclusiveness at Texas A&M resurface after George Floyd’s death	Houston Chronicle	Britto, B.	07/12/20	2 doc(s)
‘We’re all fearful of what could happen’: COVID deaths rise in San Antonio as hospitals are pushed to capacity	San Antonio Express News	Caruba, L.	07/12/20	1 doc(s)
Younger people falling victim	San Antonio Express News	Stoeltje, M.	07/12/20	1 doc(s)
Texas voter registration surges to 16.4 million, despite the pandemic	San Antonio Express News	Wallace, J.	07/12/20	2 doc(s)
Del Valle school board gives green light to Tesla tax breaks	Austin American Statesman	Novak, S.	07/11/20	1 doc(s)
In the name of science, 314 Action labels Mike Siegel a loser	Austin American Statesman	Tilove, J.	07/11/20
Researchers are launching a massive study to tell us how prevalent COVID-19 is in North Texas	Dallas Morning News	Kuchment, A.	07/11/20	1 doc(s)
Trump’s near-perfect endorsement record in GOP primaries gets put to test in Texas Panhandle runoff	Dallas Morning News	Benning, T.	07/11/20
To understand COVID’s spread in Dallas-Fort Worth, 45,000 will be tested in study	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Weinberg, T.	07/11/20	2 doc(s)
Two Election Day polling sites in Tarrant will be closed; workers worried about COVID	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Tinsley, A.	07/11/20
Gov. Abbott urges Texas police to enforce mask order, as some balk	Houston Chronicle	Wallace, J.	07/11/20	2 doc(s)
Hospital patients waiting in ERs because COVID-19 is filling up beds	Houston Chronicle	Ackerman, T.	07/11/20	2 doc(s)
2020 coronavirus claims Fiesta San Antonio as latest victim with cancellation	San Antonio Express News	Marini, R.	07/11/20	1 doc(s)
UT San Antonio, going mostly virtual, will work to preserve visas of international students with in-person classes	San Antonio Express News	Malik, A.	07/11/20	3 doc(s)
Feds turn down plea to open BAMC to civilian COVID care	San Antonio Express News	Christenson, S.	07/11/20	1 doc(s)
Fact-check: Are Texas education officials working at home while asking teachers to go back to classrooms?	Austin American Statesman	Korte, L.	07/12/20	2 doc(s)
Shackled to Trump, Abbott must long for Obama	Austin American Statesman	Tilove, J.	07/12/20
Early voting ends with record high turnouts, high number of mail-in ballots	Austin American Statesman	Korte, L.	07/12/20	1 doc(s)
District survey alarms Round Rock teachers	Austin American Statesman	Osborn, C.	07/12/20	6 doc(s)
Texas surpasses 250,000 coronavirus cases, sets records for new cases, hospitalizations	Austin American Statesman	Korte, L.	07/12/20	2 doc(s)
Is the coronavirus pandemic putting Texas businesses at a higher risk of lawsuits?	Austin American Statesman	Wu, T.	07/12/20	5 doc(s)
The end of the dog days of Texas	Austin American Statesman	Herman, K.	07/12/20	2 TX bill(s)
Why pile on international students? They’re building up UTD, UTA and Dallas-Fort Worth	Dallas Morning News	Schnurman, M.	07/12/20	2 doc(s)
Masks are now required in Texas. What if you can’t wear one because of a medical condition?	Dallas Morning News	Marfin, C.	07/12/20	2 doc(s)
As Texas’ only physician in Congress, Republican Michael Burgess defends Fauci as ‘thorough,' ‘respected'	Dallas Morning News	Benning, T.	07/12/20
Dallas County reports 1,101 coronavirus cases, 4 more deaths in another record week	Dallas Morning News	Marfin, C.	07/12/20	1 doc(s)
Dallas County absentee voters say mailed ballots are inexplicably being returned with days left before election	Dallas Morning News	Ramirez, M.	07/12/20
Two major Texas counties are trimming polling locations as workers pull out over coronavirus	Dallas Morning News	Ura, A.	07/12/20	2 doc(s)
Fort Worth police officers criticized for not wearing masks inside gas station	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Johnson, K.	07/12/20	2 doc(s)
Coronavirus deaths take a long-expected turn for the worse	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Stobbe, M.	07/12/20	1 doc(s)
6 deaths, 423 more coronavirus cases reported in Tarrant County	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Johnson, K.	07/12/20	1 doc(s)
Pass this city mask law. It helps enforce Greg Abbott’s order and slows COVID-19.	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Kennedy, B.	07/12/20	1 doc(s)
What’s next for the 700,000 Texans whose driver’s licenses have expired during COVID	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Dickson, G.	07/12/20	1 doc(s)
UIL grants eligibility for sports, extracurricular activity to all virtual learners	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Gosset, B.	07/12/20	2 doc(s)
Turnout in Texas runoffs should have Republicans on edge	Houston Chronicle	Grieder, E.	07/12/20
Thousands of Texas pastors got taxpayer-funded paychecks. Here’s why that’s historic.	Houston Chronicle	Downen, R.	07/12/20	2 doc(s)
Heat Wave Drives People Inside in Covid’s Hottest Hot Spots	Houston Chronicle	Adams-Heard, R.	07/12/20
What makes one gathering safe, another not	Houston Chronicle	Gray, L.	07/12/20	2 doc(s)
After months of economic woes in the Houston region, hints of a recovery	Houston Chronicle	Silverman, D.	07/12/20	4 doc(s)
Texas needs pipelines and a phase-out of oil and natural gas	Houston Chronicle	Tomlinson, C.	07/12/20	1 doc(s)
Rethinking the limits on catfish in Texas	Houston Chronicle	Williams, M.	07/12/20
Clock is ticking for college football in the fall	Houston Chronicle	Duarte, J.	07/12/20
Acres Homes welcomes two new ‘Black Lives Matter’ murals	Houston Chronicle	Britto, B.	07/12/20
Schools? Beaches? Restaurants? COVID-19 questions answered	Houston Chronicle	Gray, L.	07/12/20
TEA creates an impossible school choice for parents	San Antonio Express News	Garcia, G.	07/12/20	4 doc(s)
Four San Antonio institutions boost COVID-19 research projects	San Antonio Express News	Garcia, L.	07/12/20
No end to novel coronavirus in sight yet; nine more deaths and 535 new cases in San Antonio area	San Antonio Express News	Mendoza-Moyers, D.	07/12/20	1 doc(s)
Black bear activity on the rise in Texas	San Antonio Express News	Wyatt, M.	07/12/20
What has the coronavirus pandemic done to the bottom line for State of Texas Inc.?	San Antonio Express News	Taylor, M.	07/12/20	2 doc(s)
A recession and total lack of certainty? Don’t worry: San Antonio Inc. is here	San Antonio Express News	Jefferson, G.	07/12/20	2 doc(s)
Harris County judge denies Texas GOP convention demand	Austin American Statesman	Price, A.	07/11/20	3 doc(s)
Lakeway settles on November bal-lot propositions	Austin American Statesman	Bassman, L.	07/11/20
Republican activist sues Gov. Abbott, challenging mask order	Austin American Statesman	Hall, K.	07/11/20	5 doc(s)
COTA chairman: Formula 1 race ‘in serious jeopardy’	Austin American Statesman	Burkhart, R.	07/11/20	2 doc(s)
Rep. Dan Crenshaw questions Sen. Tammy Duckworth’s values in Trump campaign meetup	Dallas Morning News	Weigel, D.	07/11/20
Texas Sen. John Cornyn criticized for questioning whether children can catch and spread COVID-19	Dallas Morning News	Cobler, P.	07/11/20	1 doc(s)
Dallas County reports more than 1,000 new coronavirus cases for 8th straight day	Dallas Morning News	Garcia, N.	07/11/20	2 doc(s)
San Antonio cancels postponed Fiesta	Dallas Morning News	Fernandez, S.	07/11/20	1 doc(s)
Big Tex will not greet visitors this year. State Fair of Texas canceled due to COVID.	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Ramirez Jr., D.	07/11/20	1 doc(s)
El Paso pushes back fall high school season, in-person instruction due to coronavirus	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Gosset, B.	07/11/20	1 doc(s)
Tarrant County reports 634 new coronavirus cases, three more deaths	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Lopez, B.	07/11/20	2 doc(s)
Dallas County reports over 1,000 new coronavirus cases for 8th day in a row	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Lopez, B.	07/11/20	1 doc(s)
Texas surpasses 10,000 coronavirus hospitalizations, reports 9,765 new cases	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Lopez, B.	07/11/20	1 doc(s)
Sugar Land Skeeters do their best to create a buzz	Houston Chronicle	Coleman, A.	07/11/20
Sen. Cornyn as Texas reports 550 child cases: 'We still don’t know’ if kids can get, transmit COVID	Houston Chronicle	Wermund, B.	07/11/20	1 doc(s)
Patients Swamp Sun Belt Hospitals With Covid-19 on a Rampage	Houston Chronicle	Court, E.	07/11/20	1 doc(s)
Judge denies Harris County request to allow email voting for those infected with COVID-19	Houston Chronicle	Despart, Z.	07/11/20	2 doc(s)
Democrats call for recusal of Texas Supreme Court justices who sponsored GOP convention	Houston Chronicle	Scherer, J.	07/11/20	4 doc(s)
Texas reverses course, says it won't collect overpaid unemployment benefits in instances when it was the state's mistake	San Antonio Express News	Garnham, J.	07/11/20	2 doc(s)
Seemingly unfettered, novel coronavirus continues to spread in San Antonio area, with nearly 4,000 new cases this week	San Antonio Express News	Foster-Frau, S.	07/11/20	1 doc(s)
UTSA will have to make more than amends for its devastating cuts to a San Antonio treasure	San Antonio Express News	Ayala, E.	07/11/20
2 Police Officers Are Shot and Killed in McAllen, Texas	New York Times	Waller, A.	07/13/20
America’s Governors Get Tested for a Virus That Is Testing Them	New York Times	Rojas, R.	07/13/20
Georgia. Ohio. Texas. Democrats Tell Biden to Go Big (He’s Being Cautious).	New York Times	Martin, J.	07/12/20
In Texas Beach City, Out-of-Towners Drove In an Outbreak	New York Times	Goodman, J.	07/12/20
How to Reopen Schools: What Science and Other Countries Teach Us	New York Times	Belluck, P.	07/12/20
As Covid-19 Cases Hit Records in U.S., Deaths Begin Trending Higher	Wall Street Journal	Overberg, P.	07/12/20

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