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
We Recommend: Ruzicka in GOP race for Texas House District 107	Dallas Morning News	Editorial	05/03/18
HISD school closures can’t wait until August	Houston Chronicle	Editorial	05/03/18	1 TX bill
Worried about HISD? Blame Austin.	Houston Chronicle	Horwitz, N.	05/03/18	3 doc(s)
Paxton’s pre-Obamacare dream would be a nightmare for Texas	Houston Chronicle	Potter, W.	05/03/18	2 doc(s)
O’Rourke support the real thing	San Antonio Express News	Dow, L.	05/03/18	1 doc(s)
Is the NRA convention in Dallas a gift for Democrats?	Houston Chronicle	Ward, M.	05/03/18
Calvert, activists on GOP convention bid: choose values over profits	San Antonio Express News	Scherer, J.	05/03/18
Abbott urges local officials to apply for Harvey funds	Austin American Statesman	Sterling, E.	05/03/18	1 TX bill 5 doc(s)
UT rethinks its masculinity program, as talk radio rails on it	Austin American Statesman	Haurwitz, R.	05/03/18
Students organize Round Rock town hall to address gun reform	Austin American Statesman	Sanders, A.	05/03/18
Farenthold tells Abbott he won’t foot the bill for special election	Dallas Morning News	Wang, J.	05/03/18	4 doc(s)
Dems Valdez, White to debate May 11 in Austin	Dallas Morning News	Jeffers Jr., G.	05/03/18
Andrew White says he’s selling his border security company	Dallas Morning News	Barragan, J.	05/03/18
Texas confuses voters, hurts turnout with dueling elections	Dallas Morning News	Jeffers Jr., G.	05/03/18	2 TX bill(s)
Ruling in suit over ER bill could change industry	Dallas Morning News	Rice, S.	05/03/18	5 doc(s)
Study: Gun injuries fall during NRA conventions	Dallas Morning News	Cardona, C.	05/03/18	1 doc(s)
Democrat raises DACA suit questions	Dallas Morning News	Leslie, K.	05/03/18	3 doc(s)
Texas AG Paxton’s lawsuit challenging DACA is a waste of time and money	Houston Chronicle	Grieder, E.	05/03/18	2 doc(s)
Farenthold tells Texas Gov. Abbott he won't pay for special election	Houston Chronicle	Wallace, J.	05/03/18	2 doc(s)
DA appoints special counsel to review 'actual innocence' of former death row inmate Alfred Brown	Houston Chronicle	Blakinger, K.	05/03/18
Teacher Pay Is So Low in Some U.S. School Districts That They’re Recruiting Overseas	New York Times	Goldstein, D.	05/03/18
Star witness in state Sen. Carlos Uresti’s trial acquitted in her own criminal case	San Antonio Express News	Danner, P.	05/03/18	1 doc(s)
Valdez agrees to debate White in runoff for Democratic nod for governor	San Antonio Express News	Fikac, P.	05/03/18
TAMU-SA campus faces tension over growth, conservation	San Antonio Express News	Huddleston, S.	05/03/18
Texas should keep TEA takeover option	Beaumont Enterprise	Editorial	05/02/18	1 doc(s)
Flawed Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling under-reached in upholding Texas voter ID law	Corpus Christi Caller Times	Editorial	05/02/18	2 doc(s)
Hidalgo, Cameron counties bold to join census lawsuit	McAllen Monitor	Editorial	05/02/18	1 doc(s)
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton files 7-state lawsuit seeking to end DACA	Corpus Christi Caller Times	Mekelburg, M.	05/02/18	4 doc(s)
O’Rourke campaigns in Rio Grande Valley	McAllen Monitor	Ferman, M.	05/02/18
Hidalgo, Cameron counties join 2020 census lawsuit	McAllen Monitor	Lopez-Puente, N.	05/02/18	2 doc(s)
Texas Leads States in Legal Challenge to DACA Program	McAllen Monitor	Ruger, T.	05/02/18	3 doc(s)
Iowa Lawmakers Pass Abortion Bill With Roe v. Wade in Sights	New York Times	Bosman, J.	05/03/18
Now Available in the Oil Patch: Wind and Solar College Degrees	Wall Street Journal	Ailworth, E.	05/03/18
Public hearing/formal meeting notice			05/02/18

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