By Karen Brooks Harper, The Texas Tribune Sept. 16, 2020 “Balancing higher health risks and spotty internet, reopening college in the Rio Grande Valley is a challenge” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public…

By Ian MacDougall, ProPublica ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. House Democrats are set to issue a subpoena Tuesday to compel the National Labor Relations Board to hand over documents as part of…

By Ross Ramsey, The Texas Tribune Sept. 16, 2020 “Analysis: It’s hard to make good pandemic policy if the Texas data is fuzzy” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2020 Sadly, one additional Maverick County citizen died due to COVID-19 and 27 new confirmed positive COVID-19 cases were reported on Tuesday, September 15, 2020 by Maverick County Judge David R. Saucedo at the joint City of Eagle Pass and…

By Shannon Najmabadi and Edgar Walters, The Texas Tribune Sept. 15, 2020 “Texas officials walk back $15 million proposed cuts to women’s and children’s health services” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy,…

By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, photography by Meridith Kohut ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. August besieged California with a heat unseen in generations. A surge in air conditioning broke the state’s electrical grid,…

By Edgar Walters and Shannon Najmabadi, The Texas Tribune Sept. 14, 2020 “Texas officials change how the state reports positivity rate after testing backlogs skewed coronavirus data” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public…

By: Mike Spies, Jake Pearson and Jessica Huseman, ProPublica ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Starting in early spring, as the coronavirus took hold, a conservative lawyer at the forefront of raising alarms…

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2020 Three more Maverick County citizens died from COVID-19 and 24 new confirmed positive COVID-19 cases were reported on Monday, September 14, 2020, announced Eagle Pass Mayor Luis E. Sifuentes at the joint City of Eagle Pass and Maverick County…

(Press Release) ALPINE, TEXAS— “Over the last few days, Sul Ross State University has received inquiries regarding discussions on campus about the name of our university. I’m not aware of any organized effort or “movement” to change our university’s name.  “While I appreciate the fact that Sul Ross means different…