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The Latest Breaking News from Texas

Number of special elections so far in the 118th Congress below the number at this point in the 117th Congress

Welcome to the Thursday, June 1, Brew.

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Texas lawmakers allocated more than $2 billion to increase the state’s water supply and reduce flooding

Texans across the state are affected by declining water supplies, water infrastructure disruptions and flooding in their communities.

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Cars registered in Texas after 2025 will no longer need to pass a safety inspection, but owners will still pay the fee

Cars in some of Texas’ larger counties will still be required to have their emission output checked.

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Brickbat: No-Show Job

Victor Vandergriff resigned as a member of the Texas Department of Transportation Commission in February 2018. But he continued to receive a paycheck and state benefits for the part-time job for the next five years. The money stopped coming earlier this year only after the Austin American-Statesman asked why he…

Reason

Get set to photograph 2024's Great North American Solar Eclipse next week

A 4-minute total solar eclipse will be seen from in a 120-mile-wide path through Mexico, the US & Canada on Monday

Digital Camera World

Tension over property taxes produces rare public clash between Dan Patrick, Greg Abbott

Always happy to castigate the Texas House, Patrick breaks form to criticize the governor as misinformed and unsympathetic toward homeowners.

The Texas Tribune

Texas girl's killer faces new murder charges, with more possible, police say

A man run out of multiple cities and towns across Texas after he served prison time for the slaying of an 8-year-old girl in the 1980s has been arrested in connection with two other murders

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Meet the New Boss: Major League Baseball Officially Launches Into the RSN Biz With 'MLB San Diego Padres'

Baseball sets up a new pay TV home for the Padres, as Twins, Guardians, Diamondbacks and Rangers petition in Texas bankruptcy court to cut them loose from Bally Sports, too

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Texas governor appoints John Scott as interim attorney general after Paxton impeached

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has named John Scott to temporarily serve as the state’s attorney general

The Independent UK

Abbott taps John Scott, former Texas secretary of state, as interim attorney general

Scott, a former deputy attorney general, will run the agency because Ken Paxton has been suspended from office until his impeachment trial before the Texas Senate.

The Texas Tribune

Senate stalled on latest ‘Dreamers’ proposal ahead of court hearing - Roll Call

Congress appears no closer to passing a bill to protect hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children.

Roll Call

Spurred by Uvalde, Texas Legislature Passes Bill To Finally Close 'Dead Suspect Loophole'

Texas' public record law let police hide records of suspects who died in custody from grieving families, reporters, and lawyers.

Reason

Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin sends 100 National Guard soldiers to US-Mexican border

Virginia’s Glenn Youngkin is joining the list of Republican governors sending soldiers or other state law enforcement officers to the U.S. border with Mexico

The Independent UK

‘Prone to hallucinations and bias’: A Texas judge puts A.I. in its place

Judge Brantley Starr strikes back against generative A.I. hype.

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Mystery of missing dad who walked into pitch-black woods and never came back as search continues

Colby Richards, 31, reportedly walked out of his home in Spring, Texas, into the dark woods behind - his wife told police she knew something was 'off' due to is abnormal behaviour

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Houston Open officially returns to PGA Tour’s spring schedule, signs new sponsor in Texas Children’s

Just months after the Austin event was axed, a fellow Texas tournament has slid back into the spring schedule.

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Update on this year’s and next year’s ballot measure certifications

As of May 30, 2023, 24 statewide measures have been certified for the ballot in eight states for elections in 2023. That’s nine more measures than the average number (15) certified at this point in other odd-numbered years from 2011 to 2021.

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SI:AM | MLB Takes Over Padres Broadcasts With New Model

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Across Texas, a slow and sputtered rollout of foster care privatization

Lawmakers were assured that outsourcing management of foster care services would fix the state’s troubled child welfare agency. But the rollout of the new model, set to be completed by 2029, has been complicated by setbacks.

The Texas Tribune

This class president is the model of a successful Texas teen. After a ban on trans health care, she can’t wait to leave the state.

For one Round Rock teen, getting accepted to Harvard was her ticket out of a state that she says is hostile to trans youth. Now Texas will ensure young people like her no longer have access to gender-affirming care.

Ballotpedia

An early look at the 2024 primary election calendar

Welcome to the Wednesday, May 31, Brew.

Roll Call

Dobbs decision now a factor in med school residency picks - Roll Call

Data shows abortion ruling may play a role in medical school residency decisions, could drive some away from becoming OB-GYNs.

The Independent UK

Elizabeth Holmes prison: Everything we know about disgraced Theranos founder going to jail

Inmates at the Texas prison where Holmes is expected to report to on Tuesday are placed into work programmes where some earn as little as 12 cents an hour

The Independent UK

Elizabeth Holmes news: Theranos founder surrenders to Texas prison to begin 11-year sentence

Disgraced tech entrepreneur reported to prison in Texas minutes before a court-imposed deadline on Tuesday

France 24

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes starts prison sentence for blood-testing hoax

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes entered a Texas prison Tuesday where she could spend the next 11 years for overseeing a blood-testing hoax that became a parable about greed and hubris in Silicon Valley.

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