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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is allowing his Stay at Home order issued in March to expire on Thursday and is filing a new one that will allow some businesses to reopen on Friday, May 1 as part of Phase 1 of his Open Texas plan.
Texas Gov. Abbott says Biden border crisis now bipartisan issue
WASHINGTON, D.C. – MARCH 24: Texas Governor Greg Abbott participated in a news briefing outside the West Wing on March 24, 2017 at the White House in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Texas) told sources on Sunday that Republicans are not alone anymore when it comes to pushing back against the Biden administration’s handling of the southern border.
Last week, Abbott called on the federal government to shut down the Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio, after multiple allegations surfaced of sexual abuse, understaffing and lack of food for the children. Allegedly, COVID-19 positive children were not being isolated from the others.
After close 2018 race, Mike Collier seeking rematch against Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick.
The Houston-area accountant says the lieutenant governor needs to be held accountable for grid failure.
Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor Mike Collier spoke at a town hall meeting hosted by the Funky East Dallas Democrats at 2018 Kidwell Street on July 2. (Ashley Landis / Staff Photographer)
After losing a 2018 race to Patrick by five percentage points, Collier told
The Dallas Morning News that he’s again running for lieutenant governor, hoping that he’ll mobilize enough voters to give Democrats its first statewide victory since 1994.
“The campaign is all about holding Dan Patrick accountable for the many failures, the last being the power grid and the water situation,” Collier told
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At some point, you hit a place where the rapidity at which you re vaccinating starts to tail off, said Zerwas, a former Republican state legislator and executive vice chancellor for health affairs at the University of Texas System, adding that the state is expecting a certain percentage of people in each eligible group will decline to be vaccinated.
But vaccination waitlists remain long in many parts of the state. Texas ranks near the bottom in percentage of people given one shot and percentage of people fully vaccinated, at slightly more than 8%. Doses are allocated by the federal government proportionate to the population of each state.