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Lt. Gov Patrick on Fox: Governor’s Order is a Pause in Reopening

Lt. Gov Patrick on Fox: Governor’s Order is a Pause in Reopening

(WBAP/KLIF) – Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick says Governor Greg Abbott’s action to close bars amid a rise in COVID-19 cases is simply a pause in the reopening process. Patrick on Fox News said state leaders must try to protect lives while also protecting a person’s liberty. “Right now, let’s take a week or ten…MORE

No Police Reform Bill Just Yet…

No Police Reform Bill Just Yet…

HOUSTON (AP) – Without major changes in almost every state, a national police misconduct database like what the White House and Congress have proposed after George Floyd’s death would fail to account for thousands of problem officers. The outlook for a policing bill is newly uncertain after Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked a Republican proposal…MORE

Changes to Confederate Symbols at Baylor University Could Be Coming

Changes to Confederate Symbols at Baylor University Could Be Coming

WACO, Texas (AP) – Baylor University regents are creating a panel to consider whether any statues, buildings or other tangible tributes on the Waco campus reflect a racist past. The regents adopted a resolution Thursday that recognizes that most of the university’s founding fathers were slaveholders, racists and white supremacists when the school was founded…MORE

Hundreds Of Central Texas Teens May Have Been Exposed To Coronavirus

Hundreds Of Central Texas Teens May Have Been Exposed To Coronavirus

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Health officials say about 300 teenagers were exposed to the coronavirus after a massive party in a Central Texas suburb last weekend. Lakeway Mayor Sandy Cox says the party, called Pongfest, was attended by local high school students in the posh lakeside Austin suburb. According to Austin Public Health officials, some…MORE

Appeals court: Trump wrongly diverted $2.5B for border wall

Appeals court: Trump wrongly diverted $2.5B for border wall

San Francisco (AP) – A federal appeals court has ruled against the Trump administration in its transfer of military money to build sections of the U.S. border wall with Mexico. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in two opinions Friday that diverting $2.5 billion from military construction projects to build the wall illegally sidesteps…MORE