Texas schools have amassed more than 50,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in students in just a couple of weeks. The state is a leader in child deaths from COVID-19 with 59 as of Sept. 3. | via @TPRNews
- #BREAKING: Harris County is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to step in after they say thousands of mail-in ballots were rejected due to Texas' strict new voting law.
- HIDALGO RE-ELECTED: Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo has narrowly won a second term after a tough challenge from Alexandra Mealer. bit.ly/3Up0sb3
- After raising more than $3 million for Texas winter storm relief, U.S. Rep. @AOC came to Houston this weekend to volunteer at @HoustonFoodBank.
- Beto O’Rourke condemned Texas' "trigger law" on abortion -- which took effect Thursday -- during a visit to a Houston clinic that previously offered abortions.
- BREAKING: The Supreme Court of Texas has denied a petition challenging drive-thru voting, allowing the practice to legally continue in Harris County.
- Breaking: Fort Bend County Health & Human Services confirms first presumptive positive case of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus
- Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O'Rourke touched on a wide range of topics during an hourlong interview Wednesday on Town Square with Ernie Manouse.
- BREAKING: Federal judge rules Texas Republicans do not have standing, will not toss 127,000 Harris County votes.
- Hervis Rogers captured national attention in March 2020 when he waited for hours to vote on Super Tuesday. Now, Rogers is being prosecuted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office for allegedly voting illegally.
- At a Senate hearing Wednesday, four elite American gymnasts testified about the abuse they had suffered by former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, and their feelings of betrayal by investigators, including from the FBI. | via @NPR
- As the University of Houston prepares to close its LGBTQ Resource Center this week, another Houston school that is not bound by the constraints of Senate Bill 17 is offering to help fill the void.
- After Mayor Whitmire accused pro-Palestinian organizers of ‘being paid by Iran,’ City of Houston says it has no documentation to back up his claim
- Replying to @HoustonPubMediaA federal judge has temporarily blocked an executive order from Gov. Greg Abbott that effectively banned abortion in Texas amid the coronavirus pandemic.
