In a nonbinding opinion, Ken Paxton said the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council doesn’t have the authority to punish social workers who refuse service to clients based on their sexual orientation, gender identity or disability status.
Isabella Zou
Isabella Zou is a summer reporting fellow at The Texas Tribune. She is a rising junior at Yale University, where she studies Ethnicity, Race and Migration and is a Yale Journalism Scholar. Isabella has worked as an inequity and disparity reporting intern for the CT Mirror and an intern for the Austin American-Statesman’s Westlake Picayune. She serves as editor-in-chief of the Yale Daily News Magazine, a monthly publication for narrative journalism, fiction, poetry and the arts. An Austin native, she enjoys dancing, singing and eating all tacos. Isabella is fluent in Mandarin.
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A Year of COVID-19
Fear of coronavirus will no longer be acceptable reason for Texans on unemployment to turn down job offers
The state’s unemployment agency is ending that exemption June 26, when out-of-work Texans will also stop receiving an extra $300 in federal jobless benefits.
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Texas Legislature 2021
Texas power generation companies will have to better prepare for extreme weather under bills Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law
Senate Bills 2 and 3 are aimed at overhauling the state’s power grid after the devastating winter storm in February and the widespread power outages that followed.
