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Texas Rural Hospitals’ Dire Straits Could Have Been Prevented
The health and economic consequences of rural hospital closures within the state of Texas have direct ties to resistance to Medicaid expansion.
Low rates of...
Paxton Says Fear of COVID-19 Not Enough to Be Eligible for a Mail-In Ballot
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton wants to clear up any confusion about mail-in ballots, and he is doubling down on restrictions on requesting mail...
Private Practice Doctors Are In Trouble Amidst Coronavirus Lockdowns
Medical professionals are warning healthy individuals to stay home and out of emergency rooms if they can. But an unexpected effect of that advice...
How Will COVID-19 Affect My Property Taxes?
As homeowners across Texas receive their 2020 property appraisal notices, Reform Austin has launched an online resource to help everyone understand how the property...
Stay in or Go Out? What Texans Did Over the Weekend
As Texas restaurants and stores were allowed to reopen at 25% capacity starting Friday, this past weekend RA News asked our Facebook readers whether...
Harris County Judge Extends Stay-Home Order
In a press conference on May 1, just two days after the state wide order expired on April 30, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo...
Texas Cities Still Have Stay-Home Orders
Texas is partly reopen for business after Gov. Greg Abbott’s statewide stay-home order expired Thursday, but residents of the state’s urban areas are under...
Texas Railroad Commission Poised to Finally Decide on Oil Production Cuts
And then there was one. It seems the decision on whether Texas oil and gas regulators will order production cuts will come down to...
Texas Beaches Reopen, but Some Officials Are Worried
Texas beaches reopened Friday. The Lone Star State’s beaches aren’t all exactly a tropical paradise, yet Texans have a lot of love for them.
A...
Texas Suffers Steepest Decline in Sales Tax Revenue in a Decade
Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar today reported state sales tax revenues for the month of April totaled $2.58 billion, which is 9.3% less than the...
