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
What happens to Texas when water is more valuable than oil?	Houston Chronicle	Editorial	04/11/18	3 doc(s)
Rethink how voters elect the HISD board	Houston Chronicle	Editorial	04/11/18	1 TX bill 1 doc(s)
Texas should be learning about Mexican-American culture	Austin American Statesman	Orozco, C.	04/11/18	2 doc(s)
Why this summer might be a stress test for the Texas electric grid	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Rhodes, J.	04/11/18	1 doc(s)
Sheryl Cole, veteran Austin office-holder, tested in Texas House race	Austin American Statesman	Price, A.	04/11/18
Cruz vs. Zuckerberg	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Leslie, K.	04/11/18	2 doc(s)
Texas 4th-graders ranked 45th nationally in reading last year. It's not as bad as it sounds	Houston Chronicle	Carpenter, J.	04/11/18	2 doc(s)
In first State of the City address, Nirenberg unveils creation of transit nonprofit	San Antonio Express News	Baugh, J.	04/11/18
Several Central Texas school districts affected by STAAR glitch	Austin American Statesman	Chang, J.	04/11/18	1 doc(s)
Texas General Land Office releases plan for $5 billion in disaster relief	Austin American Statesman	Cardenas, C.	04/11/18	2 doc(s)
Cryptocurrency investment fraud running rampant in Texas, state say	Austin American Statesman	Sechler, B.	04/11/18	3 doc(s)
Pflugerville City Council calls for resumption of Texas 130 project	Austin American Statesman	Garcia, A.	04/11/18	2 doc(s)
Don’t fire Mueller, lawmakers warn	Dallas Morning News	Gillman, T.	04/11/18
Judge blocks poll ordinance	Dallas Morning News	Light, N.	04/11/18	3 doc(s)
Dozens of massage parlors near schools, group finds	Dallas Morning News	Ayala, E.	04/11/18	2 TX bill(s) 2 doc(s)
LGBT workers granted protection	Dallas Morning News	McGaughy, L.	04/11/18	2 doc(s)
Maternal death rate	Dallas Morning News	Wang, J.	04/11/18	2 TX bill(s) 6 doc(s)
STAAR test runs into ‘minor’ software glitch	Dallas Morning News	Ayala, E.	04/11/18
Lawsuit seeks to put a stop to red-light cameras	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Tinsley, A.	04/11/18	2 doc(s)
For Texas college students, a new employment push: Soft skills	Houston Chronicle	Ellis, L.	04/11/18	3 doc(s)
TEA details how it will calculate A-F letter grades	Houston Chronicle	Webb, S.	04/11/18	1 TX bill 1 doc(s)
Texas isn’t the ‘worst,’ but moms are still dying	Houston Chronicle	Falkenberg, L.	04/11/18	4 doc(s)
Are pipeline land takings in the public interest if oil, gas headed overseas?	Houston Chronicle	Sixel, L.	04/11/18	5 doc(s)
HUD sending another $5B to Texas for Harvey recovery	San Antonio Express News	Elliott, R.	04/11/18	2 doc(s)
National Guardsmen arrive on the southern border to assist immigration authorities	San Antonio Express News	Nelsen, A.	04/11/18	4 doc(s)
The latest in the Congressman Blake Farenthold saga	Corpus Christi Caller Times	Moritz, J.	04/10/18	1 doc(s)
Texas House Speaker Joe Straus said trust along border needed more than walls	El Paso Times	Perez, E.	04/10/18	3 doc(s)
ACLU: County legal system discriminates against poor	Galveston Daily News	Barnett, M.	04/10/18	4 doc(s)
With few takers, state to end Harvey repair program	Galveston Daily News	Wells, V.	04/10/18
Hidalgo county to oppose Census citizenship question	McAllen Monitor	Lopez-Puente, N.	04/10/18	3 doc(s)
Escapes, Riots and Beatings. But States Can’t Seem to Ditch Private Prisons.	New York Times	Oppel Jr., R.	04/11/18
Trump Signs Executive Order for Revamp of Federal Aid Programs	Wall Street Journal	Radnofsky, L.	04/11/18
Public hearing/formal meeting notice			04/10/18

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