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
Trinity Groves highlights one of many challenges facing Dallas’ small businesses	Dallas Morning News	Editorial	08/21/20
Austin made a bad choice with its police, but Gov. Abbott shouldn’t interfere	Dallas Morning News	Editorial	08/21/20	1 doc(s)
Get this sorted. Beyond both sides’ wild claims, Congress must insist USPS be ready for mail-in ballots	Houston Chronicle	Editorial	08/21/20	1 doc(s)
Safeguarding the post box and the ballot box	Austin American Statesman	Doggett, L.	08/21/20	4 doc(s)
Enroll your kids in pre-K even if you don’t send them in person now	Houston Chronicle	Elizondo, A.	08/21/20	1 doc(s)
Guarantee funding for school year	San Antonio Express News	Ju.	08/21/20	2 doc(s)
Texas applies for extra $300-a-week federal jobless benefit	Austin American Statesman	Lindell, C.	08/21/20	6 doc(s)
Texas announces new coronavirus reporting rules for schools	Austin American Statesman	Taboada, M.	08/21/20	2 doc(s)
Texas to apply for extra $300 weekly sum in unemployment benefits from Trump executive order	Dallas Morning News	Barragan, J.	08/21/20	5 doc(s)
Can Texas flip? Beto O’Rourke, Stacey Abrams, Julián Castro, MJ Hegar talk running in South	Dallas Morning News	Jeffers Jr., G.	08/21/20
Fort Worth state rep’s company tried to evict tenant. It may have violated federal law.	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Dent, M.	08/21/20	3 doc(s)
3 keys for Joe Biden if he’s going to win Texas	Houston Chronicle	Wallace, J.	08/21/20
Texas positivity rate, Abbott's key metric in fight against COVID, proven to be unreliable	Houston Chronicle	Blackman, J.	08/21/20	2 doc(s)
Most classes are online, but apartments won’t let UT San Antonio students break leases	San Antonio Express News	Malik, A.	08/21/20
UT employees, students plead for limits on in-person classes	Austin American Statesman	Korte, L.	08/21/20	3 doc(s)
Travis County coronavirus testing reaches nearly 70,000 in July	Austin American Statesman	Price, A.	08/21/20	2 doc(s)
Dallas County reports 308 coronavirus cases, including over 200 from state reporting backlog	Dallas Morning News	Jones, A.	08/21/20	1 doc(s)
Regents urged to cancel in-person classes	Dallas Morning News	Justin, R.	08/21/20	3 doc(s)
Texas to apply for extra $300 per week in benefits for Texans unemployed due to COVID	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Weinberg, T.	08/21/20	7 doc(s)
Texas officials plan to collect, publish data on school-based COVID cases	Houston Chronicle	Carpenter, J.	08/21/20	1 doc(s)
Houston pastor-physician Stella Immanuel tweets that Texas Medical Board is investigating her	Houston Chronicle	Ackerman, T.	08/21/20	1 doc(s)
Teachers union drops suit against Cy-Fair ISD	Houston Chronicle	Webb, S.	08/21/20	3 doc(s)
Evidence grows that children may play a larger role in transmission than previously believed	Houston Chronicle	Cha, A.	08/21/20	4 doc(s)
21 more coronavirus deaths in Bexar County	San Antonio Express News	Chasnoff, B.	08/21/20	2 doc(s)
With a change in San Antonio rules, visits to nursing homes and similar facilities can resume	San Antonio Express News	Stoeltje, M.	08/21/20	2 doc(s)
Judge rules property owners’ lawsuit against GBRA can proceed	San Antonio Express News	O'Hare, P.	08/21/20	5 doc(s)
Texas applies for $300 per week to unemployed, as jobless claims rise for first time in 6 weeks	San Antonio Express News	Douglas, E.	08/21/20	6 doc(s)
State leaders need to quit playing crazy in police reform effort	Waco Tribune Herald	Editorial	08/20/20	1 doc(s)
Special education woes in Texas aren't getting better	Galveston Daily News	Criss, S.	08/20/20	3 TX bill(s) 4 doc(s)
Voting in Texas is different from other places. It’s a hassle.	Victoria Advocate	Ramsey, R.	08/20/20	4 doc(s)
Assault on post office weakens democracy	Longview News-Journal	McNeely, D.	08/20/20	5 doc(s)
Classes resume on Texas A&M campus amid coronavirus concerns, precautions	Bryan Eagle	Rodriguez, M.	08/20/20
Anti-COVID 'catch and kill' air-filtration system deployed by rural Texas school district	Corpus Christi Caller Times	Moritz, J.	08/20/20	2 doc(s)
Rep. Todd Hunter: More laws needed to combat human trafficking	Corpus Christi Caller Times	Moritz, J.	08/20/20	1 TX bill 2 doc(s)
Rep. Canales calls for audit of IDEA	Valley Morning Star	Staff	08/20/20	1 doc(s)
As COVID-19 continues to spread, fewer free tests available in Crossroads	Victoria Advocate	Rosenberg, M.	08/20/20	1 doc(s)
Cornyn touts $78 million in COVID-19 relief for Waco area during Family Health Center tour	Waco Tribune Herald	Witherspoon, T.	08/20/20	1 doc(s)
As more Waco-area districts resume, officials warn some school closures inevitable	Waco Tribune Herald	Crum, B.	08/20/20	1 doc(s)
Public hearing/formal meeting notice			08/20/20

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