“It is time to open them up,” Abbott said in a Facebook video announcing the move. “If we continue to contain COVID, then these openings, just like other businesses, should be able to expand in the near future.”
Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff
Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff was a reporting fellow at the Tribune in the fall of 2020. A graduate of the Medill School at Northwestern, Dan has worked as a freelance reporter for The Washington Post, an investigative reporter for the Medill Investigative Lab, a senior editor for North by Northwestern Magazine and an engagement intern at the New York Daily News. He speaks Hebrew and Arabic and is a founding member of Reporters Without Borders Northwestern.
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State Government
Who is Nate Paul, the real estate investor linked to abuse-of-office allegations against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton?
Earlier in his career, media reports called the now 33-year-old real estate investor a “wunderkind,” a “rising star” and a “prodigy.” Now he’s fighting more than a dozen bankruptcies and has been linked to criminal allegations against an embattled Texas politician.
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Coronavirus in Texas
Gov. Greg Abbott has closed Texas bars twice since the pandemic began. Now he’s hinting at opening them again.
Abbott shut down bars for a second time in June, when the proportion of coronavirus tests with positive results was more than 18%. That number has dropped to just over 6%. Experts worry that opening bars will contribute to another surge.
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Demographics
The U.S. census will continue through October, paving the way for more Texans to be counted
Experts say the extension could help the historically undercounted state regain lost ground. Texans are already responding to the census at a substantially lower rate than the national average.
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The 2020 Texas Tribune Festival
Journalist Bob Woodward says pandemic, economy will decide 2020 election
At the keynote event of the 2020 Texas Tribune Festival, Woodward discussed the process of reporting out his latest book on the Trump presidency.
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Police brutality in Texas
Gov. Greg Abbott wants to raise the stakes for protesters during a divisive Texas election
Abbott’s campaign event came after a majority of likely Texas voters in a recent poll said that law and order is a bigger issue than the pandemic. Yet they were also more likely to say that racism in the criminal justice system is a larger problem than riots in American cities.
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Police brutality in Texas
Dallas City Council increases police budget overall, but reallocates $7 million from overtime budget
Much of the overtime cuts were reallocated for other purposes in the department, including more than $3.8 million to hire nearly 100 civilian workers. Other new spending will go toward addressing root causes of crime and improving street lighting.
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Politics
U.S. Rep. Ron Wright, who is sick with pneumonia, is released from hospital
The freshman Republican has been undergoing treatment for cancer since 2019.
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Texas 2020 Elections
Texas begins letting people register to vote online when they’re updating their driver’s licenses
The limited move, ordered by a federal judge, marks the first time Texans have been able to register to vote online.
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The 2020 Texas Tribune Festival
U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw calls expanding mail-in voting “playing with fire” despite rarity of voter fraud
Crenshaw, a freshman Republican from Houston, made the comments in an interview during The Texas Tribune Festival that aired Monday. He also discussed immigration and changing voting patterns in Houston.
