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
Texas law requiring armed guards fails to make schools safer	Dallas Morning News	Editorial	06/18/24	2 TX bill(s)
Texas Supreme Court sides with state regulators on $16 billion winter storm overcharges	Austin American Statesman	Wagner, B.	06/18/24	1 TX bill 3 doc(s)
Texas Dems: Ignoring Title IX protections for LGBTQ students could cost colleges billions	Dallas Morning News	Rodrigues, M.	06/18/24	6 doc(s)
Trial over Austin's Project Connect financing model halted by appeal from Texas AG	Austin American Statesman	McCarthy, E.	06/18/24	1 TX bill 3 doc(s)
Paul Pressler, conservative Baptist leader later accused of sexual abuse, dead at 94	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Campbell, E.	06/18/24
UT System one of the top institutions for patent approvals, according to new report	San Antonio Express News	Manno, M.	06/18/24	1 doc(s)
Ken Paxton’s effort to shutter Catholic migrant shelter threatens religious freedom, lawyer argues	San Antonio Express News	Wermund, B.	06/18/24	2 doc(s)
Galveston County Sheriff nominee made false or untruthful official statements, state commission says	Galveston Daily News	McLemore, A.	06/14/24
State should rethink removal of nonprofit health systems from Medicaid, CHIP programs	McAllen Monitor	Editorial	06/15/24	3 doc(s)
Texas should put some aid money into oyster industry	Galveston Daily News	Editorial	06/14/24	1 doc(s)
(Founding) fathers of Texas	Longview News-Journal	Cornyn, J.	06/14/24	2 doc(s)
Sid Miller: Wichita Falls plant will catapult Texas to top of industrial hemp production	Wichita Falls Record News	Witherspoon, C.	06/16/24
La Joya ISD laid off 175 employees to trim budget deficit	McAllen Monitor	Zapata, O.	06/15/24	1 doc(s)
US one step closer to withholding Mexico funding over water crisis	McAllen Monitor	Arevalo, D.	06/14/24	4 doc(s)
Wedged between politics and Texas muscle, migrants thread dangerous path across border	El Paso Times	Villagran, L.	06/16/24	1 doc(s)
Texas Democrats gather in El Paso for the Texas Democratic Party Convention	El Paso Times	Powell, A.	06/16/24
Public hearing/formal meeting notice			06/18/24

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