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...
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 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.
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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...
Food Stamp Recipients Will Soon Be Able to Get Groceries Delivered
Food stamp recipients can get their groceries delivered starting May 18. Walmart and Amazon are the first retailers to join the pilot program for...
Stay-Home Order Ends, but a Lot of Texas Is Still Closed
Gov. Greg Abbott’s stay-home order expired at midnight, at the end of a day in which Texas saw its highest number of deaths related...
63 State Lawmakers Make Urgent Plea for Help for State’s Most Vulnerable
A bipartisan group of state lawmakers led by State Rep. James Talarico (D-Round Rock) is urging Gov. Greg Abbott to devote more resources to...
Texas Universities Tighten Budgets, Plan for Fall Classes
As of right now, Texas universities are planning on being open for the fall semester. However, they will be dealing with budget problems brought...
Texas Reports Record Coronavirus Deaths the Day Before Stores Open. But Gov. Greg Abbott...
The day before Texas began its first wave of business reopenings during the coronavirus pandemic, the latest figures from the state health department brought...
A Prominent Texas Man’s Network of Hotels Got Millions in Taxpayer Loans, Irking Smaller...
Updated May 2, 2020:
Dallas-based hotel group — Ashford Hospitality Trust, Ashford Inc., and Braemar Hotels & Resorts — run by GOP mega donor Monty Bennett...
