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
The eviction crisis is serious. State, local officials must do more to help.	Houston Chronicle	Editorial	12/28/20	3 doc(s)
30 percent of San Antonio’s COVID-19 cases have been reported in December	San Antonio Express News	Riker, M.	12/24/20	2 doc(s)
COVID-19 hospitalizations just shy of all-time high of 10,893	Austin American Statesman	Macias, R.	12/28/20	2 doc(s)
'We all knew this was coming': Austin restaurants react to Stage 5 coronavirus guidelines	Austin American Statesman	Odam, M.	12/28/20	3 doc(s)
Want your wallet back when you get out of jail? San Antonio wants $25 for holding it	San Antonio Express News	Selcraig, B.	12/28/20
San Antonio surpasses 110,000 COVID-19 cases; 1,000 people hospitalized with the virus	San Antonio Express News	Picon, A.	12/28/20	3 doc(s)
Dallas County reports 3-day total of 6,144 new coronavirus cases, 11 deaths	Dallas Morning News	Marfin, C.	12/28/20	1 doc(s)
Retiring Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen tests positive for COVID-19	Dallas Morning News	Gravois, J.	12/28/20
Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen tests positive for COVID-19 over Christmas weekend	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Hartley, J.	12/28/20
Armando Colombo, CEO of the Menninger Clinic, on the need for mental health help during the pandemic	Houston Chronicle	Wu, G.	12/28/20
Rumors of oil's death have been greatly exaggerated	Houston Chronicle	Perryman, M.	12/28/20
Warner "Lamoine" Holland III	San Antonio Express News	Staff	12/28/20
Texas has real problems. APD isn't one of them.	Austin American Statesman	Editorial	12/27/20	3 doc(s)
DFW apparently doesn’t have enough COVID-19 cases. So sure, bring on college playoff	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Editorial	12/27/20	3 doc(s)
Expand SNAP to alleviate hunger	San Antonio Express News	Editorial	12/27/20	3 doc(s)
Thumbs up, thumbs down	Houston Chronicle	Editorial	12/26/20	3 doc(s)
Mr. President, sign the COVID relief bill. Sign it today.	Houston Chronicle	Editorial	12/24/20	4 doc(s)
Congress delivers more COVID aid, but hold the applause	San Antonio Express News	Editorial	12/24/20	5 doc(s)
Expand health care to keep ER for true emergencies	San Antonio Express News	Editorial	12/23/20	2 doc(s)
Texas isn't on my son's list of safe states. Congress should change that.	Austin American Statesman	Rodriguez, L.	12/27/20	1 doc(s)
Who should get the next round of COVID-19 vaccines?	Dallas Morning News	Gingles, D.	12/27/20	1 doc(s)
Education in a Time of Pandemic: Not Making the Grade	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Burke, L.	12/27/20	4 doc(s)
Trust teachers and skip the STAAR this year	Houston Chronicle	Alter, S.	12/27/20	3 doc(s)
Texas should cancel STAAR testing immediately	San Antonio Express News	DeMatthews, D.	12/27/20	7 doc(s)
God, country, liberty and madness	San Antonio Express News	Parker, K.	12/26/20
UT should take the next step to defend free speech on campus	Austin American Statesman	Lindsay, T.	12/24/20	2 doc(s)
OUR TOP STORY OF THE YEAR: How the coronavirus changed everything	Austin American Statesman	Staff	12/27/20
Unemployment aid for millions expires after Trump refuses to sign relief bill with bipartisan support	Dallas Morning News	Colvin, J.	12/27/20	5 doc(s)
Good riddance, 2020: Worst year ever for jobs in Texas	Dallas Morning News	Schnurman, M.	12/27/20	3 doc(s)
Could Texas students eventually be required to get a COVID-19 vaccine?	Dallas Morning News	Richman, T.	12/27/20	8 doc(s)
Donald Trump’s Dallas-area supporters won’t accept his loss, say populist movement continues	Dallas Morning News	Jeffers Jr., G.	12/27/20	2 doc(s)
Fort Worth schools see spike in student failure rates during COVID-19. How bad is it?	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Allen, S.	12/27/20	6 doc(s)
‘Uncharted territory’ — San Antonio teachers overwhelmed with pandemic challenges	San Antonio Express News	Picon, A.	12/27/20	8 doc(s)
Ken Paxton’s beefed-up 2020 voter fraud unit closed 16 minor cases, all in Harris County	San Antonio Express News	Goldenstein, T.	12/27/20	3 doc(s)
As pandemic grinds on, Texas students increasingly feel alone and scared, and some are thinking about suicide	Austin American Statesman	Taboada, M.	12/26/20	7 doc(s)
Coronavirus threat can mean greater isolation for kids in Austin juvenile detention	Austin American Statesman	Hall, K.	12/26/20	4 doc(s)
Texans who buy personalized license plates have put $100 million into state tax rolls	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Dickson, G.	12/26/20	2 doc(s)
Pandemic forces cities to change in-person inspections for occupied homes, apartments	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Campbell, E.	12/26/20	3 doc(s)
Austin schools could shutter in January as board gives power to superintendent	Austin American Statesman	Price, A.	12/25/20	6 doc(s)
Austin-Travis County moves to Stage 5 of coronavirus threat; tightest restrictions urged	Austin American Statesman	Bradshaw, K.	12/25/20	5 doc(s)
How one company can test up to 50,000 Texans a day for COVID-19 for free, without a nose swab	Dallas Morning News	Jimenez, J.	12/25/20
GOP blocks $2,000 checks as Trump leaves COVID aid in chaos	Dallas Morning News	Taylor, A.	12/25/20	3 doc(s)
Texas COVID-19 hospitalizations approach record high	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Dearman, E.	12/25/20	6 doc(s)
Moderna vaccine brings relief to small, rural hospitals	Houston Chronicle	Dellinger, H.	12/25/20	6 doc(s)
‘Rural hospitals are drowning.’ Half of them were left off that state’s vaccine distribution lists.	San Antonio Express News	Riker, M.	12/25/20	6 doc(s)
Teslas, other electric vehicles could face new fee under Texas proposal	Austin American Statesman	Sechler, B.	12/24/20	2 TX bill(s)
UT study: Politics put Texas construction workers at risk early in outbreak	Austin American Statesman	Jankowski, P.	12/24/20	2 TX bill(s) 1 doc(s)
In FBI probe, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton faces aggressive, ethical prosecutor	Austin American Statesman	Bleiberg, J.	12/24/20	4 doc(s)
Dallas’ new police chief will be Eddie Garcia, the first Latino to lead the department	Dallas Morning News	Scudder, C.	12/24/20
For Dallas-Fort Worth holiday travelers, some things are worth the risk as COVID rages	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Lopez, B.	12/24/20	2 doc(s)
Trump threatens COVID relief bill, testing loyalty of GOP	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Freking, K.	12/24/20	1 doc(s)
San Antonio officials allowed crowded weekend boxing match at Alamodome amid surge in coronavirus	San Antonio Express News	Fechter, J.	12/24/20	5 doc(s)
Abbott-backed proposal would put all Austin policing under state control	Austin American Statesman	Autullo, R.	12/23/20	1 doc(s)
Gov. Greg Abbott receives COVID-19 vaccine in Austin	Austin American Statesman	Price, A.	12/23/20	3 doc(s)
Escott eyes Christmas coronavirus threat, weighs calling for tighter rules if cases worsen	Austin American Statesman	Osbourne, H.	12/23/20	2 doc(s)
Dallas medics will be among the first city workers to get COVID-19 vaccines	Dallas Morning News	Bailey Jr., E.	12/23/20	1 doc(s)
TCU to receive 100 doses of COVID-19 vaccine. Here’s who will get vaccinated first	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Lopez, B.	12/23/20	1 doc(s)
Southlake lost a trusted police officer. His cancer-fighting wife lost her ‘soul mate’	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Campbell, E.	12/23/20
Latest COVID-19 projections suggest Houston could be nation's next hot spot	Houston Chronicle	Ackerman, T.	12/23/20	4 doc(s)
Millions likely to ignore COVID holiday travel warnings	Houston Chronicle	Takahashi, P.	12/23/20	1 doc(s)
Virus cases trigger rollback of restrictions in Galveston, Brazoria, Chambers and Liberty counties	Houston Chronicle	Powell, N.	12/23/20	1 doc(s)
San Antonio hits new daily record of COVID-19 cases as hospitalizations, deaths mount	San Antonio Express News	Fechter, J.	12/23/20	2 doc(s)
‘We’ve had enough’ — Moderate Republicans ditched Donald Trump for Joe Biden in the party’s key Bexar County strongholds. But the defections didn’t he	San Antonio Express News	Fechter, J.	12/23/20
Amazon plans to open three new facilities in San Antonio and create over 1,500 jobs	San Antonio Express News	Iszler, M.	12/23/20
Lake Buchanan infested with zebra mussels, joining dozens of other Texas waterways, officials say	Austin American Statesman	Bradshaw, K.	12/27/20	1 doc(s)
Beto O'Rourke to teach on democracy and campaigning at University of Texas this spring	Austin American Statesman	Price, A.	12/27/20
Fact-check: Is the Texas oil and gas industry 35% of the state economy?	Austin American Statesman	Mulder, B.	12/27/20	2 doc(s)
Despite smooth election, GOP leaders seek vote restrictions	Dallas Morning News	Cassidy, C.	12/27/20
Dallas County adds 10 COVID-19 deaths, sees total confirmed and probable cases climb past 180,000	Dallas Morning News	Jimenez, J.	12/27/20	3 doc(s)
Can COVID-19 vaccines get us to herd immunity? ‘The jury is definitely still out’	Dallas Morning News	Baumgaertner, E.	12/27/20	3 doc(s)
Why does the ‘COVID slide’ look worse in math? Texas schools struggle to get students back on track	Dallas Morning News	Richman, T.	12/27/20	1 doc(s)
From a near riot to the biggest hack of Texans’ information, 2020 was filled with wins and losses	Dallas Morning News	Lieber, D.	12/27/20	1 doc(s)
He claimed election fraud. He wouldn’t leave office. It was 147 years ago — in Texas	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Kennedy, B.	12/27/20
Pandemic. Recession. Oil bust. How Houston weathered economic collapse under COVID-19	Houston Chronicle	Osborne, J.	12/27/20	3 doc(s)
Newspapers and the rise of Texas barbecue	Houston Chronicle	Reid, J.	12/27/20
UTSA, Port San Antonio unite on research, workforce initiative	San Antonio Express News	Lingle, B.	12/27/20
Bexar County leader 'encourages' Spurs to 'hold off' on fans	San Antonio Express News	Orsborn, T.	12/27/20	1 doc(s)
Former Travis County employee sues Ken Paxton, challenging anti-Israel boycott law	Austin American Statesman	Hall, K.	12/26/20	3 doc(s)
COVID, legislation, lawsuits signal change in college sports	Austin American Statesman	Pells, E.	12/26/20	3 doc(s)
Collin County’s data woes concern residents amid coronavirus spike	Dallas Morning News	Lopez, B.	12/26/20	2 doc(s)
Texas reports 4,096 new coronavirus cases, 200 deaths	Dallas Morning News	Keomoungkhoun, N.	12/26/20	3 doc(s)
UT collects electronic time capsules to document 2020	Houston Chronicle	Britto, B.	12/26/20	1 doc(s)
Texas receives smaller portion of federal stimulus	Houston Chronicle	Carballo, R.	12/26/20	1 doc(s)
Following statewide trend, Northside, North East ISDs restrain Black and special ed children at disproportionate rates, report finds	San Antonio Express News	Torralva, K.	12/26/20	1 doc(s)
Texas is a hub of hyper-partisanship as American politics grow ever more divisive	San Antonio Express News	Wermund, B.	12/26/20
Texas hasn’t said when or how inmates will receive the coronavirus vaccine	San Antonio Express News	McCullough, J.	12/26/20	2 doc(s)
Evolving Texas grid marks beginning of the end for fossil fuel electricity	San Antonio Express News	Tomlinson, C.	12/26/20	3 doc(s)
30 years on, Texas colonia residents billed for service they never received	San Antonio Express News	Dexheimer, E.	12/26/20	3 doc(s)
North Austin retirement community among first to receive access to COVID-19 vaccine	Austin American Statesman	Moreno-Lozano, L.	12/25/20	1 doc(s)
Virus rules not enforced. Grieving Texas family asks: Why?	Austin American Statesman	Weber, P.	12/25/20	2 doc(s)
College grants to help North Texans learn workforce skills	Dallas Morning News	Ravikumar, V.	12/25/20
Texas reports 16,392 new coronavirus cases, 308 deaths	Dallas Morning News	Keomoungkhoun, N.	12/25/20	2 doc(s)
Texas hospital offers vaccine to pharmacists, school nurses	Houston Chronicle	A.P. Wire	12/25/20	2 doc(s)
San Antonio area school leaders, facing loss of millions in state funding, plead for continued grace period	San Antonio Express News	Torralva, K.	12/25/20	2 doc(s)
Gov. Greg Abbott allows only limited COVID-19 restrictions for Texas' worst hot spots. Local leaders say it's not enough.	San Antonio Express News	Mulcahy, S.	12/25/20	6 doc(s)
Dark days: Experts fear the holidays will fuel the US crisis	San Antonio Express News	Lush, T.	12/25/20	1 doc(s)
Austin-area leaders call for virtual religious gatherings for holidays amid coronavirus threat	Austin American Statesman	Moreno-Lozano, L.	12/24/20	4 doc(s)
Rio Grande Hospital Workers Turned Down the Vaccine. A Senator and a Sheriff’s Deputy Lined Up Instead.	Austin American Statesman	Davila, V.	12/24/20	4 doc(s)
SEC's 'thorough and deliberate approach' about football was the right call against COVID in the end	Austin American Statesman	Guilbeau, G.	12/24/20
Study: Graduation gap widens between white, Black athletes	Austin American Statesman	Iacobelli, P.	12/24/20	2 doc(s)
Pfizer to supply US with additional 100M doses of vaccine	Dallas Morning News	Alonso-Zaldivar, R.	12/24/20	4 doc(s)
Some Texans in Congress ready to return to Washington as Trump throws huge COVID relief bill into doubt	Dallas Morning News	Thompson, E.	12/24/20	2 doc(s)
Gov. Greg Abbott pardons seven Texans ahead of Christmas	Dallas Morning News	Barragan, J.	12/24/20	1 doc(s)
Down to 17 ICU beds, Dallas County posts record 2,512 coronavirus cases and — yet again — 30 deaths	Dallas Morning News	Jimenez, J.	12/24/20	2 doc(s)
3 takeaways from Drew Springer’s win over Shelley Luther for a North Texas Senate seat	Dallas Morning News	Morris, A.	12/24/20	2 TX bill(s)
‘Worst we’ve seen’ in Dallas County as ICU nears capacity; COVID cases, deaths surging	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Stevenson, S.	12/24/20	1 doc(s)
Tarrant COVID hospitalizations spiking; 11 deaths include 2 in Mansfield in their 40s	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Stevenson, S.	12/24/20	1 doc(s)
How Arlington officials are preparing for first rounds of COVID vaccine distribution	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Broussard, K.	12/24/20	1 doc(s)
Hidalgo says no Harris County curfew to curb spread of COVID-19 — for now	Houston Chronicle	Despart, Z.	12/24/20	2 doc(s)
Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Fetterman relentlessly trolls Dan Patrick seeking $1M voter fraud bounty	Houston Chronicle	Wermund, B.	12/24/20	1 doc(s)
One wanted normalcy and one went remote: How two West Texas universities operated in COVID-19 hot spots this fall	San Antonio Express News	McGee, K.	12/24/20
State officials organization to review complaint from LBJ, NAACP regarding semifinal loss	Austin American Statesman	Cantu, R.	12/23/20
US deaths in 2020 top 3 million, by far most ever counted	Dallas Morning News	Stobbe, M.	12/23/20	3 doc(s)
Dallas County adds 30 COVID-19 deaths, 2,366 new cases; the county’s death toll is now over 1,500	Dallas Morning News	Keomoungkhoun, N.	12/23/20	2 doc(s)
‘It’s that easy’: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott receives his COVID-19 vaccination	Dallas Morning News	Morris, A.	12/23/20	7 doc(s)
Texas AG Pushed to Rescind Houston Virus Relief Funding	Dallas Morning News	Coronado, A.	12/23/20	6 doc(s)
Consumer relief: COVID bill to end ‘surprise’ medical bills	Dallas Morning News	Alonso-Zaldivar, R.	12/23/20	1 doc(s)
Tarrant County COVID-19 hospitalizations rise again, adult ICU beds at 96% capacity	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Stevenson, S.	12/23/20	1 doc(s)
‘Didn’t feel a thing,’ Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says after getting COVID-19 vaccine	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Dearman, E.	12/23/20	2 doc(s)
Man in Tarrant County custody dies from COVID-19, becomes 3rd inmate to die this month	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Johnson, K.	12/23/20	1 doc(s)
Surprise billing deal means time is ripe for health care reform	Houston Chronicle	Tomlinson, C.	12/23/20	1 doc(s)
Texas Fracking Billionaires Drew Covid-19 Aid While Investing in Rivals	Wall Street Journal	Mullins, B.	12/28/20
How Much Herd Immunity Is Enough?	New York Times	McNeil Jr., D.	12/27/20
Early Vaccine Doubters Now Show a Willingness to Roll Up Their Sleeves	New York Times	Hoffman, J.	12/27/20
Vaccine Rollout Presenting States With Questions Over Race and Access	Wall Street Journal	Vielkind, J.	12/26/20
Answering Trump, Democrats Try and Fail to Jam $2,000 Payments Through House	New York Times	Cochrane, E.	12/25/20
Pfizer Seals Deal With U.S. for 100 Million More Vaccine Doses	New York Times	LaFraniere, S.	12/25/20
Trump’s Attack on Coronavirus Relief Divides G.O.P. and Threatens Recovery	New York Times	Haberman, M.	12/24/20
States Square Off Over Taxing Remote Workers’ Income	Wall Street Journal	Vielkind, J.	12/24/20

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