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
TxDOT's $7 billion plan to shorten your I-45 commute may displace hundreds of families	Houston Chronicle	Editorial	04/01/21	1 doc(s)
Anxious schools beg for funding	San Antonio Express News	Editorial	04/01/21	2 doc(s)
Texans want winterization of utilities, study finds. Elected officials must act to prevent another disaster.	Houston Chronicle	Watson, K.	04/01/21	1 doc(s)
Career and technical education should not be at the expense of the arts in Texas schools	Houston Chronicle	White, A.	04/01/21	1 TX bill 2 doc(s)
Effort to prevent pedestrian deaths jammed up in Lege	San Antonio Express News	Gonzales, S.	04/01/21	2 TX bill(s)
Why anti-abortion advocates think the Texas 'fetal heartbeat' bill can survive a court challenge	Austin American Statesman	Mekelburg, M.	04/01/21	1 TX bill
Biden's infrastructure plan addresses Texas grid failures, Hurricane Harvey recovery	Houston Chronicle	Wermund, B.	04/01/21	1 doc(s)
Some 250,000 Houston-area students haven't returned to classrooms, will finish school year at home	Houston Chronicle	Webb, S.	04/01/21	1 doc(s)
While the Astrodome sits empty, help is coming to Houston's other 'National Treasure'	Houston Chronicle	Tallet, O.	04/01/21
So you left Houston for your first COVID vaccine dose. Can you get the second shot closer to home?	Houston Chronicle	Wu, G.	04/01/21	3 doc(s)
San Antonio to create sign-up for COVID-19 vaccine appointments - with limits	San Antonio Express News	Fechter, J.	04/01/21	4 doc(s)
A man from Palestine seeks to kill Austin's noise ordinance	Austin American Statesman	Herman, K.	04/01/21	1 TX bill
Vaccines, vigilance key to making herd immunity by summer, Austin-area health chief says	Austin American Statesman	Bradshaw, K.	04/01/21	3 doc(s)
House advances bill making it harder for CPS to remove Texas youth from their families	Dallas Morning News	Garrett, R.	04/01/21	1 TX bill 1 doc(s)
Texas Senate on track to pass bill that would make it harder to vote	Dallas Morning News	Barragan, J.	04/01/21	1 TX bill 3 doc(s)
Dallas Regional Chamber asks Abbott to prioritize bipartisan ‘common-sense’ policing standards	Dallas Morning News	Briseno, A.	04/01/21
Dallas County reports 18 coronavirus deaths, 364 new cases; Tarrant County adds 6 deaths	Dallas Morning News	Keomoungkhoun, N.	04/01/21	3 doc(s)
Why Fox Sports Southwest is now Bally Sports, and where you can (and can’t) watch Texas Rangers games	Dallas Morning News	DiFurio, D.	04/01/21	1 TX bill
Texas criminal court agrees to review Fort Worth woman’s illegal voting conviction	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Ramirez Jr., D.	04/01/21	3 doc(s)
DACA recipients' counsel urges Houston judge to hold off on ruling	Houston Chronicle	Banks, G.	04/01/21	4 doc(s)
One in three Texas adults have received at least one dose of the COVID vaccine as of today	Houston Chronicle	Rubio, J.	04/01/21	3 doc(s)
Houston council OKs nearly $10M in emergency spending to repair freeze-damaged water system	Houston Chronicle	Scherer, J.	04/01/21	1 doc(s)
University Health to buy land near Retama racetrack	San Antonio Express News	Garcia, L.	04/01/21
California could learn from Texas energy efforts	Bryan Eagle	Frankel, G.	03/31/21	1 doc(s)
We will not allow our voting rights to be eroded	Galveston Daily News	Courville, E.	03/31/21
Biden’s Election-Reform Deception	Wall Street Journal	Rove, K.	04/01/21

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