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Written by RA News staff.
Abbott: State COVID-19 Data Problems Have Been Fixed
A mess. Incomplete. Faulty. Not to be trusted. Those are the descriptions of Texas COVID-19 data in recent weeks.
The state’s positivity rate, the percentage...
Texas Parents Opting for At-Home Learning Over the Classroom
Virtual learning has begun for some school districts in Texas, so RA News asked readers in a poll about whether they were sending their...
UT Students, Teachers Want Changes to In-person Classes
In the week leading up to classes resuming at the University of Texas at Austin, students and teachers have been pleading for the University...
Texas Coast Braces for Possible Category 3 Hurricane
More than 70 members with the Texas Army, Air National Guard, and Texas State Guard with the Texas Military Department have been activated and...
Texas All But Missing from GOP National Convention Lineup
U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Houston) is the only Texan listed as a speaker for this week’s GOP National Convention. Rice University Political Science professor...
Only a Few Texas Nursing Homes Allowed to Have Visitors
Out of the more than 1,200 nursing homes in Texas, only 27 have applied for approval to have visitors again. Just 12 of those...
Bonnen Uses Taxpayer Dollars to Hike Staff Salaries as High as $280K
Outgoing Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen (R-Angleton) boosted the taxpayer-funded salaries for his staffers — some as high as $280,000 — and cut the...
Abbott Wants Teacher Fired Over Cartoon Comparing Police to KKK
Gov. Greg Abbott wants a Wylie Independent School District teacher fired over a cartoon that compared police officers to slave owners and Ku Klux...
Salon Owner Who Defied COVID-19 Closure Order to Run for Texas Senate
Shelley Luther, the Dallas salon owner who generated national media attention after reopening her shop in defiance of Gov. Greg Abbott’s closure order, has...
Entire Texas Coast Declared Disaster Area in Advance of Two Storms
With the potential for two hurricanes to impact Texas within days of each other, Gov. Greg Abbott has declared the entire Texas Coast and...
