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
Gov. Abbott, don’t let squabbling over masks distract you from local leaders’ shutdown pleas	Houston Chronicle	Editorial	07/20/20	6 doc(s)
Putting an end to Texas’ $4.3 billion electricity tax	Dallas Morning News	Peacock, B.	07/20/20	2 doc(s)
Glitches, turmoil dog Texas GOP’s virtual convention	Austin American Statesman	Tilove, J.	07/20/20
Texas child advocates warn of hidden signs of abuse amid quarantine	Austin American Statesman	Asch, S.	07/20/20	2 doc(s)
Suburban women voters key to Democratic revival in Texas	Dallas Morning News	Jeffers Jr., G.	07/20/20	1 doc(s)
Fort Worth’s Trinity River concert series in legal limbo after Saturday’s show scrapped	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Clarridge, E.	07/20/20	3 doc(s)
Houston’s surge of COVID-19 cases overwhelms contact tracing efforts	Houston Chronicle	Ackerman, T.	07/20/20	2 doc(s)
As Texas sees a record 174 coronavirus deaths in a day, Gov. Greg Abbott pleads for use of masks	Dallas Morning News	Garrett, R.	07/18/20	5 doc(s)
Texas university leaders among highest paid in nation	Austin American Statesman	Korte, L.	07/20/20
Fact-check: Why did Texas remove 3,000 cases from its coronavirus count?	Austin American Statesman	Cobler, N.	07/20/20	3 doc(s)
Dallas County reports 1,044 new coronavirus cases, 2 deaths	Dallas Morning News	Keomoungkhoun, N.	07/20/20	3 doc(s)
Former Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne cites FEC rule to collect salary from her congressional campaign	Dallas Morning News	Cobler, P.	07/20/20	1 doc(s)
‘COVID-19 isn’t going away’ — 6 more deaths, 2,202 new coronavirus cases in Bexar County	Houston Chronicle	Zavala, E.	07/20/20	4 doc(s)
Wanted: Poll workers willing to turn out on Election Day amid coronavirus crisis	Houston Chronicle	Izaguirre, A.	07/20/20	1 doc(s)
Over 500 at lockup have virus	Houston Chronicle	O'Hare, P.	07/20/20	2 doc(s)
New distillery offers lifeline to Houston’s out-of-work bartenders	Houston Chronicle	Drane, A.	07/20/20
Pleas from Harlandale educators for state to support local districts	San Antonio Express News	Torralva, K.	07/20/20	4 doc(s)
Texas needs to set COVID metrics for school reopenings	Austin American Statesman	Editorial	07/19/20	4 doc(s)
As COVID-19 infections rise, parents need more information from schools	Dallas Morning News	Editorial	07/19/20	3 doc(s)
Start online if necessary, but for children’s sake, Texas schools must reopen ASAP	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Editorial	07/19/20	2 doc(s)
Dr. Ronny Jackson’s mask message is the wrong signal to Texas and the nation	Dallas Morning News	Editorial	07/18/20	1 doc(s)
Thumbs up, thumbs down	Houston Chronicle	Editorial	07/18/20	1 doc(s)
Changes in Bexar politics good news to both parties	San Antonio Express News	Editorial	07/18/20
Reproductive autonomy shouldn’t depend on your employer’s beliefs	Austin American Statesman	White, K.	07/19/20	4 doc(s)
Schools must connect with Black students instead of suspending them	Austin American Statesman	Salahud-din, L.	07/19/20	3 doc(s)
Reopening Texas schools involves tough choices, and Trump’s rhetoric doesn’t help	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Powell, B.	07/19/20	4 doc(s)
A cruel choice between voting and personal safety	Austin American Statesman	Vanglish, R.	07/18/20	3 doc(s)
Cisneros: S.A., Austin linked by a common future	San Antonio Express News	Cisneros, H.	07/18/20	1 doc(s)
Youth vote was surprise factor in Travis County runoffs	Austin American Statesman	Jankowski, P.	07/19/20
‘Superspreading’ events, triggered by people who may not even know they are infected, propel coronavirus pandemic	Dallas Morning News	Cha, A.	07/19/20	1 doc(s)
Democrats hold sizable cash-on-hand edge over Republicans in Texas’ battleground U.S. House races	Dallas Morning News	Benning, T.	07/19/20
A third of Fort Worth is prone to flooding, but some don’t want the areas publicized	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Ranker, L.	07/19/20	1 doc(s)
As COVID infections soar, Gov. Greg Abbott eludes media scrutiny	Houston Chronicle	Blackman, J.	07/19/20	2 doc(s)
Essential workers, missed messages: COVID is raging through Houston’s Hispanic communities	Houston Chronicle	Morris, M.	07/19/20	2 doc(s)
Options for starting school year range from bad to awful for San Antonio parents, educators	San Antonio Express News	Torralva, K.	07/19/20	2 doc(s)
Austin jobless rate falls to 7.5%, but outbreak threatens rebound	Austin American Statesman	Sechler, B.	07/18/20	2 doc(s)
Texas gives school districts more leeway in reopening schools amid pandemic	Austin American Statesman	Taboada, M.	07/18/20	3 doc(s)
Texas requests more mortuary trucks as coronavirus deaths hit triple digits for third day in a row	Austin American Statesman	Cobler, N.	07/18/20	1 doc(s)
Schools can now offer online-only instruction until November, according to new state guidelines	Dallas Morning News	Smith, C.	07/18/20	6 doc(s)
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says private religious schools ‘need not comply’ with local orders delaying in-person instruction	Dallas Morning News	Tarrant, D.	07/18/20	3 doc(s)
Texas officials can delay start of school, switch to online for first four weeks, TEA says	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Tinsley, A.	07/18/20	7 doc(s)
Gov. Abbott again urges mask use as Texas tops 100 COVID-19 deaths per day	Houston Chronicle	Wermund, B.	07/18/20	1 doc(s)
Texas GOP to use George R. Brown as backup after federal judge rules convention can proceed	Houston Chronicle	Scherer, J.	07/18/20	4 doc(s)
TEA releases new guidance for Texas schools on online-only classes, start of year	Houston Chronicle	Carpenter, J.	07/18/20	3 doc(s)
Metro Health orders San Antonio schools to stay closed until Labor Day	San Antonio Express News	Torralva, K.	07/18/20	2 doc(s)
After ban expired, COVID surged at nursing homes	San Antonio Express News	Chasnoff, B.	07/18/20	3 doc(s)
Round Rock postpones city races until 2021, lowers maximum mask fine	Austin American Statesman	Asch, S.	07/19/20
Texas GOP works toward telling government to back off pandemic response	Austin American Statesman	Herman, K.	07/19/20
Virtual GOP convention reveals party at odds with its governor	Austin American Statesman	Tilove, J.	07/19/20
In convention speech, Abbott grabs his party by the scruff of its neck	Austin American Statesman	Tilove, J.	07/19/20
Research refutes claim that sex ed leads to sex	Austin American Statesman	Mekelburg, M.	07/19/20	5 doc(s)
Dallas County tops 40,000 coronavirus cases, ends week with 7-day record 74 deaths	Dallas Morning News	Scudder, C.	07/19/20	1 doc(s)
Reality shows shortfalls of Trump’s claim to ‘best testing’	Dallas Morning News	Superville, D.	07/19/20
A deck park is rising in southern Dallas. Can it heal a highway’s deep gash through Oak Cliff?	Dallas Morning News	Grigsby, S.	07/19/20	1 doc(s)
85 babies under 1 year old in Nueces County have tested positive for COVID-19, according to report	Dallas Morning News	Samuels, A.	07/19/20	1 doc(s)
How risky is going to the mall or traveling by plane? 14 Texas experts rank daily activities	Dallas Morning News	Jimenez, J.	07/19/20	1 doc(s)
Spurred by Gov. Greg Abbott's coronavirus handling, Democratic strategists launch PAC to defeat him in 2022	Dallas Morning News	Svitek, P.	07/19/20	1 doc(s)
MJ Hegar on GOP Senate rival: ‘Cornyn is not Ted Cruz’	Dallas Morning News	Jeffers Jr., G.	07/19/20
After COVID-19 closure, some Texans may wait months to renew driver’s licenses	Dallas Morning News	Barragan, J.	07/19/20	1 doc(s)
Texas university leaders among highest paid in nation	Dallas Morning News	Korte, L.	07/19/20	1 doc(s)
Being the only ‘fan’ at a NASCAR race at Texas Motor Speedway is cool and surreal	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Engel, M.	07/19/20
Tarrant County reports 288 more coronavirus cases, 5 deaths on Saturday	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Howland, J.	07/19/20	1 doc(s)
Dallas-Fort Worth news-talk radio ratings are down 25%. ‘People are just overwhelmed’	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Kennedy, B.	07/19/20	1 doc(s)
Texas GOP’s virtual convention reveals a party at sea	Houston Chronicle	Grieder, E.	07/19/20	5 doc(s)
Panel talks Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ ties	Houston Chronicle	Stuckey, A.	07/19/20	1 doc(s)
Texas to fall short of 2030 higher-education goals, report predicts	Houston Chronicle	Britto, B.	07/19/20	5 doc(s)
Ted Cruz’s 2020 warning to Texas Republicans: ‘This is a real race’	Houston Chronicle	Wallace, J.	07/19/20	5 doc(s)
Eleven more Bexar County residents die with novel coronavirus; more than 1,000 new cases reported	San Antonio Express News	Mendoza-Moyers, D.	07/19/20	3 doc(s)
UT-Austin prepared a list of scenarios that could lead to a shutdown this fall. One trigger: a student dying of COVID-19.	San Antonio Express News	Justin, R.	07/19/20	3 doc(s)
Breathtaking virus numbers show normal life still far away	San Antonio Express News	Anna, C.	07/19/20	2 doc(s)
Cost, hassle of stamps questioned as voting by mail surges	San Antonio Express News	Carr-Smyth, J.	07/19/20	1 doc(s)
In a coronavirus-induced recession, should highway spending keep its protected status?	San Antonio Express News	Taylor, M.	07/19/20	3 doc(s)
TAPPS reveals plans for fall sports	Austin American Statesman	Jones, T.	07/18/20	2 doc(s)
Texas GOP will try to restart virtual convention on Saturday	Austin American Statesman	Tilove, J.	07/18/20	3 doc(s)
Updated count shows Eckhardt-Rodriguez runoff in Senate special election	Austin American Statesman	Lindell, C.	07/18/20
Deadline looms for group seeking to revive Austin’s camping ban	Austin American Statesman	Jankowski, P.	07/18/20	2 doc(s)
Paxton: Religious private schools ‘protected’ from local reopening orders	Austin American Statesman	Choi, H.	07/18/20	4 doc(s)
Texas Supreme Court rejects challenge to Abbott’s pandemic powers	Austin American Statesman	Lindell, C.	07/18/20	3 doc(s)
Texas unemployment fell to 8.6% in June before COVID-19 resurged	Dallas Morning News	DiFurio, D.	07/18/20	4 doc(s)
Setback in GOP bid for U.S. House as Rep. Chip Roy gets ‘toss up’ rating in skirmish with Wendy Davis	Dallas Morning News	Gillman, T.	07/18/20	1 doc(s)
Will valet survive in Dallas? The necessity and sustainability of the industry feels uncertain	Dallas Morning News	Krishna, P.	07/18/20	1 doc(s)
TAPPS delaying start of all fall sports, will play shortened seasons; workouts can’t begin until Sept. 8	Dallas Morning News	Riddle, G.	07/18/20	4 doc(s)
It’s not only coronavirus cases that are rising. Now covid deaths are, too.	Dallas Morning News	Witte, G.	07/18/20	1 doc(s)
Don’t buy Texas’ good job numbers: ‘More ugly times ahead,’ economist says	Dallas Morning News	Schnurman, M.	07/18/20	8 doc(s)
‘They’re the ones working to save us:’ Dallas respiratory therapist dies of COVID-19	Dallas Morning News	Jimenez, J.	07/18/20	1 doc(s)
Dallas County reports a record number of COVID-19 deaths this week — and there’s still one day to go	Dallas Morning News	Jones, A.	07/18/20	1 doc(s)
Texas GOP will stick with virtual convention, even though federal judge ruled in-person Houston event is an option	Dallas Morning News	Svitek, P.	07/18/20	6 doc(s)
Private religious schools in Texas can open when they want, despite COVID-19, AG says	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Tinsley, A.	07/18/20	6 doc(s)
TAPPS, SPC delay fall athletic season, TAPPS looks to start football games in October	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Gosset, B.	07/18/20	3 doc(s)
Texas employment kept recovering in June, experts warn it won’t last with COVID-19 spikes	Houston Chronicle	Douglas, E.	07/18/20	3 doc(s)
Texas AG to private religious schools: Local health orders can’t restrict reopenings	Houston Chronicle	Goldenstein, T.	07/18/20	3 doc(s)
Small businesses shorted in COVID-19 rescue plans	San Antonio Express News	Tomlinson, C.	07/18/20	3 doc(s)
TAPPS delays start of fall sports season to late September	San Antonio Express News	Hinojosa, D.	07/18/20	1 doc(s)
Novel coronavirus death count in San Antonio continues to trend high; slightly fewer people in hospitals	San Antonio Express News	Huddleston, S.	07/18/20	1 doc(s)
Are Texas A&M vs. Arkansas headed back to campus sooner than expected?	San Antonio Express News	Zwerneman, B.	07/18/20
Vulnerable Border Community Battles Virus on ‘A Straight Up Trajectory’	New York Times	Dickerson, C.	07/20/20
As Trump Ignores Virus Crisis, Republicans Start to Break Ranks	New York Times	Martin, J.	07/20/20
Inside Trump’s Failure: The Rush to Abandon Leadership Role on the Virus	New York Times	Sanger, D.	07/19/20
U.S. Coronavirus Cases Hit Another Daily Record as State GOP Officials Target Mask Orders	Wall Street Journal	Ansari, T.	07/18/20

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