Texans remain focused on the coronavirus pandemic and are less optimistic about returning the state to normal quickly, according to polling by the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas. Most Texas registered voters (57%) characterize the coronavirus as “a significant crisis,” while another 29% call it “a serious problem but not a crisis. […]Read More
Gov. Greg Abbott announced his third phase Wednesday of reopening Texas businesses during the coronavirus pandemic, allowing virtually all of them to operate at 50% capacity. That is effective immediately, and there are “very limited exceptions,” Abbott’s office said. Restaurants were already permitted to be open at 50% capacity. Abbott is allowing them to immediately […]Read More
According to Republican leaders of the Senates in Washington and in Austin, the next round of federal coronavirus legislation ought to include blanket liability protection for companies that reopen in the face of the pandemic. The goal is to protect them from whatever might go wrong as the economy comes out of its deep freeze. […]Read More
Congresswoman Veronica Escobar (TX-16) issued the following statement in response to Governor Greg Abbott’s decision not to extend the stay-at-home executive order and allow the reopening of all retail stores, malls, restaurants, movie theaters, libraries and museums: “The primary obligation of every public official is the health, safety, and welfare of the residents we have […]Read More
The actual perils dwarf the political risks. Gov. Greg Abbott announced a three-phase economic thaw on Monday that he hopes will bring the state economy out of its government-induced coma, and in a way that doesn’t endanger public health. Abbott is hearing simultaneous calls to open everything at once before the economy is lost and […]Read More
A call center run by the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School gets a notification every time its nurse triage team calls a patient with the bad news that they’ve tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. That’s the signal for a separate team of a few dozen medical […]Read More
Saturday afternoon, a hundred-plus El Pasoans gathered in Downtown to let leaders and the community know that they want businesses closed due to the COVID-19 Pandemic to re-open in El Paso and across the state. Our very own Ruben R. Ramirez was there – safely social distancing – and we bring you his view of […]Read More
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