.@rossramsey writes: While the rest of us are still in election recovery mode, potential 2022 candidates are making early moves and starting to play for the attention of donors and activists.
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New — @GovAbbott announces his pick for chair of the Public Utility Commission: Peter Lake, who currently chairs the Texas Water Development Board. Lake has to be confirmed by the Senate. #txlege
State Rep. @NicoleCollier95 says police officers in Texas need to be able to collaborate more with health and social workers: "We are expecting our law enforcement officers to do too much.”
Watch the full conversation on police reform efforts: https://t.co/laFqWlZWq9#TXlegehttps://t.co/kFMLZqNRUt
Update: 9,319 vaccine doses have been given to TX's 118k state prisoners.
About 3k are J&J single dose.
Priorities go: first 65+, then 50+ w/ medical conditions, then any age w/ medical conditions, then all. https://t.co/b0d6k1GR84
Update: 3,455 doses have now gone to TX's 118K state prisoners.
About 20K doses have gone to prison staff, nearly 8k of those being fully vaccinated. https://t.co/BnN7OISyRy
Advocates back Gov. Greg Abbott's call for greater oversight at migrant shelters. But they question his timing and motivations. https://t.co/6jNRWUKoif
Electric Reliability Council of Texas will argue that it has governmental immunity that protects it from the at least 35 lawsuits that have been filed against the operator after February's winter storm.
Dozens of people in Texas died during the storm. https://t.co/XzgkoTAybA
Texas’ COVID-19 vaccination effort has been plagued by geographical, demographic and data challenges, including a higher-than-average number of people who are too young to get vaccinated and a sluggish data collection system. https://t.co/BCjL4tD9QU
.@rossramsey writes: Texas voters might still have a hangover from the 2020 elections, but the prospective candidates don’t — they’re already maneuvering for 2022.
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Texas lawmakers' proposed voting restrictions echo a broader Republican push across the country to rework voting rules after voters of color helped flip key states to Democratic control. https://t.co/0rZVTaOaIT
Trying to make sense of how Texas ranks on coronavirus vaccinations compared with other states? Here’s a look behind the numbers. https://t.co/bL57SnwHrA
A bill advancing in the Texas House seeks to stop a plan to build a site in West Texas to store the riskiest type of nuclear waste.
But the bill would also give that same company a big break on state fees. #TXlegehttps://t.co/iXNdVIDms6
Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush said if he ran against Attorney General Ken Paxton in 2022, his challenge would not be centered on "conservative credentials" but how Paxton has run his office. #TX2022https://t.co/iES52SWuGS