Texas Requests Federal Funding to Cover Coronavirus Testing for the Uninsured
Texas health officials announced Thursday they have requested federal funds to expand coverage for coronavirus testing for the uninsured.
Congress voted last month to make temporary funding...
Texas Senate Unites to Clear up Confusion about Medical Operations
Citing confusion created by his executive order halting all non-emergency procedures, every member of the Texas Senate has signed a letter to Gov. Greg...
Will COVID-19 Affect Texas’ Urbanization Trend?
Before the coronavirus outbreak, before social distancing, the population in Texas was growing. In fact, for the past 10 years, Texas has grown tremendously.
Texas...
COVID-19 Lays Bare Texas’ Health Care Disparities
As the country reels and responds to the life-threatening COVID-19, the national emergency has woefully exposed the disparity in America’s market-driven health care system,...
Coronavirus by the Numbers in Texas
In Texas, over 360 people have died, over 150,000 tests for coronavirus have been administered and just under 15,500 people have been tested positive...
Texas Unemployment Claims Top 1 Million
More than a million Texans have filed for unemployment in the last four weeks. Nationwide, jobless claims total approximately 22 million, surpassing the record...
Texas Dems Win First Round in Case to Expand Voting by Mail
Texas State District Court Judge Tim Sulak on Wednesday said he would grant a temporary injunction allowing for the expansion of voting by mail...
Texas Startup Offers At-Home COVID-19 Testing
Imaware, based in Houston, is among the first companies to receive federal approval to distribute COVID-19 test kits to people at home.
Although imaware’s tests...
Texas Railroad Commission Hearing Ends Without Decision on Oil Production Cuts
The Texas Railroad Commission, the agency charged with regulating the state’s oil and gas industry, has punted on any decision to cut oil production...
Joe Straus: What Texas Needs to Do Differently to Move Past Pandemic
The old Texas way isn’t the path Joe Straus is envisioning as the road to the new world that will follow the coronavirus pandemic....
