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
Why aren’t parents for gun reform heard like those for book bans?	Houston Chronicle	Editorial	09/26/22	2 doc(s)
O’Rourke admits AR-15s a nonstarter	Austin American Statesman	Moritz, J.	09/26/22
String band trio hopes to encourage women to vote in Texas governor’s race with old-school music	Houston Chronicle	Dansby, A.	09/26/22
Electricity prices could rise even higher in Houston thanks to natural gas prices, CenterPoint rate hike	Houston Chronicle	Webb, S.	09/26/22
After candidate death, local GOP picked new nominee for State Board of Education District 5	San Antonio Express News	McKinley, E.	09/26/22	1 doc(s)
Liz Cheney warns against voting for election deniers at TribFest	San Antonio Express News	Harris, C.	09/26/22	3 doc(s)
Fatal I-35W crash: Did TxDot ignore previous federal safety recommendations?	Dallas Morning News	Editorial	09/25/22	2 doc(s)
Look beyond the Abbott, DeSantis stunts: The border crisis is real, and it’s good for no one	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Editorial	09/25/22	4 doc(s)
DeSantis plays a cruel political game	San Antonio Express News	Editorial	09/25/22	2 doc(s)
Thumbs: Cult of H-E-B indoctrinates thousands in Frisco	Houston Chronicle	Editorial	09/24/22	1 doc(s)
Texas must implement carbon capture	Dallas Morning News	Combs, S.	09/25/22
Remembering Ann Richards	Dallas Morning News	Rogers, M.	09/25/22	1 doc(s)
Residents hammered by inflation and property taxes need a big-ger break in Fort Worth budget	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Byrd, B.	09/25/22
These 6 commonsense gun laws are popular, even in Texas	Houston Chronicle	Jones, M.	09/25/22	1 doc(s)
Shifting stories on Uvalde shooting prove the need for strong Texas public information laws	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Shannon, K.	09/24/22	2 doc(s)
End of Roe shifts election landscape in Texas	San Antonio Express News	Taylor, J.	09/24/22
1 in 5 new Texas teachers were hired without certification last year	Dallas Morning News	Richman, T.	09/25/22	3 doc(s)
How Beto O’Rourke has evolved since saying ‘Hell, yes,’ he’d take your AR-15	Dallas Morning News	Jeffers Jr., G.	09/25/22
Abbott and O’Rourke both promise to cut property taxes, and have opposite plans for doing it	Houston Chronicle	Wallace, J.	09/25/22	3 TX bill(s) 1 doc(s)
Texas pays attendants for disabled people $8.11 per hour, among the worst in the U.S.	Houston Chronicle	Stuckey, A.	09/25/22	4 doc(s)
Uvalde committee splinters over question of raising the age to buy assault weapon	Austin American Statesman	Griswold, N.	09/24/22	1 doc(s)
‘There’s nothing to hide.’ For first time ever, Tarrant County conducts mock election	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Church, A.	09/24/22
Cancer-causing dioxin found in 42 soil samples around Union Pacific Fifth Ward rail yard	Houston Chronicle	Foxhall, E.	09/24/22	1 doc(s)
Abuse, neglect and death: How Texas fails thousands of disabled residents	Austin American Statesman	Foy, N.	09/25/22	2 doc(s)
Austin Energy shouldn't raise rates on those who conserve	Austin American Statesman	Grumet, B.	09/25/22	1 doc(s)
The PUC, one of Texas’ most maligned agencies, creates a new Office of Public Engagement	Dallas Morning News	Lieber, D.	09/25/22
Democrat Rochelle Garza banks on anti-Paxton sentiment in Texas attorney general’s race	Dallas Morning News	Morris, A.	09/25/22
Where is Beto O’Rourke’s best chance to beat Greg Abbott in Texas? Not here	Dallas Morning News	Garrett, R.	09/25/22	1 doc(s)
California governor urges overhaul of Democrats’ strategy	Dallas Morning News	Beam, A.	09/25/22
Grapevine-Colleyville superintendent of schools announces plans to retire in January	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Windes, I.	09/25/22
How Fort Worth area schools caused 911 calls for asthma at-tacks to plummet	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	McCarthy, C.	09/25/22	2 TX bill(s)
They protested Gainesville’s Confederate marker. A jury sen-tenced them to a week in jail	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Kennedy, B.	09/25/22	1 doc(s)
Hood County constable faces complaint over records related to library books investigation	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Campbell, E.	09/25/22	1 doc(s)
The top California donors in the Texas governor's race	Houston Chronicle	Wallace, J.	09/25/22
Dark-money group targets Trish DeBerry with $259,000 in TV ad buys	San Antonio Express News	Garcia, G.	09/25/22
Texas, Battling Teen Pregnancy, Recasts Sex Education Standards	San Antonio Express News	Huetteman, E.	09/25/22	1 TX bill 3 doc(s)
San Antonio led way in Texas on junior high schools	San Antonio Express News	Allen, P.	09/25/22
Cruel or harmless? Pastors mixed on GOP migrant transports	San Antonio Express News	Smith, P.	09/25/22	1 doc(s)
Dade Phelan breaks from Dan Patrick on ending tenure for new Texas professors	Austin American Statesman	Menchaca, M.	09/24/22
Grapevine-Colleyville schools superintendent retiring	Dallas Morning News	Richman, T.	09/24/22
Dallas County judge rules payment requirement in rental eviction appeals unconstitutional	Dallas Morning News	Waters, L.	09/24/22	2 doc(s)
Students call for transparency after University of North Texas police arrest on video	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Johnson, K.	09/24/22
UNT settles educator’s lawsuit for $165K; he wasn’t retained after microaggression message	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Clarridge, E.	09/24/22	2 doc(s)
UH Law Center celebrates new $93 million campus at legal conference	Houston Chronicle	Ketterer, S.	09/24/22
Voting gets underway in Texas with military ballots sent out	Houston Chronicle	Wallace, J.	09/24/22	1 doc(s)
House Speaker Dade Phelan opposes Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick's call to ban tenure at Texas universities	Houston Chronicle	Scherer, J.	09/24/22
Texas reduces National Guard members deployed to Operation Lone Star border mission	San Antonio Express News	Barragan, J.	09/24/22	1 doc(s)
More Trans Teens Are Choosing ‘Top Surgery’	New York Times	Ghorayshi, A.	09/26/22
The Megastate G.O.P. Rivalry Between Abbott and DeSantis	New York Times	Bender, M.	09/26/22
Beto O’Rourke on Abbott’s Dehumanizing Stunts and Why He Hopes an Upset Looms in Texas	New York Times	Blow, C.	09/26/22
Big Tech Has No Constitutional Right to Censor	Wall Street Journal	Finley, A.	09/26/22
Texas Prosecutor Loses Attempt to Spare a Murderer From Execution	New York Times	Graham, R.	09/24/22
As Migrant Buses Take Thousands, Some Embrace the Ride North	Wall Street Journal	Caldwell, A.	09/24/22

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