The Legislative Reference Library produces a Daily Newspaper Clipping Service for members of the Legislative community. Each morning, Library staff members select and compile articles of interest to the legislature from over 30 national and regional newspapers.

Headline	Newspaper	Columnist	Date	Related Links
25 duties	Houston Chronicle	Editorial	11/20/17	3 doc(s)
Bush’s Alamo plan deserves support	San Antonio Express News	Reyna, Y.	11/20/17	1 doc(s)
Why plans for Texas bullet trains are still mostly a dream	Austin American Statesman	Wear, B.	11/20/17	1 TX bill
Protesters voice anger at Texans' owner, side with player concerns	Houston Chronicle	Rumbaugh, A.	11/20/17
UC to bid on Los Alamos contract, teeing up potential California-Texas contest over nuclear facility	Houston Chronicle	Ellis, L.	11/20/17
Filibuster still making waves, this time with movie script	San Antonio Express News	Fikac, P.	11/20/17	1 TX bill
How Texas should start assessing dam safety across state	Austin American Statesman	Editorial	11/19/17	1 doc(s)
Science has taught us juries rely on flawed evidence for convictions; that's why the death penalty must go	Dallas Morning News	Editorial	11/19/17	2 doc(s)
A&M-San Antonio innovative in defining role as public university	San Antonio Express News	Editorial	11/19/17
Thumbs up, thumbs down	Houston Chronicle	Editorial	11/18/17	3 doc(s)
How common sense can transcend ideology about guns	Austin American Statesman	Castillo, J.	11/19/17
Focus on domestic violence can stop mass shootings	Fort Worth Star-Telegram	Rector, T.	11/19/17	2 doc(s)
Barbara Jordan remains unique to Texas Senate	Houston Chronicle	Pandit, E.	11/19/17
Separate abusers from guns to curb mass tragedies	Houston Chronicle	Corrales, S.	11/19/17	2 doc(s)
‘I never thought it would happen here.	San Antonio Express News	Brauer, A.	11/19/17
Paxton’s acceptance of shootings is unacceptable	San Antonio Express News	Brodesky, J.	11/19/17	1 doc(s)
After $269M in reforms, a glint of hope at Texas homes for disabled	Austin American Statesman	Ball, A.	11/19/17	2 TX bill(s) 3 doc(s)
Steve Bannon steps aside, but Ted Cruz picks up 2 primary rivals	Austin American Statesman	Tilove, J.	11/19/17
Blindsided	Houston Chronicle	Deam, J.	11/19/17	1 TX bill 4 doc(s)
Texas Republicans fret over possible anti-Trump 'blue wave' in '18	Houston Chronicle	Zelinski, A.	11/19/17
Pipeline rupture shatters couple’s dreams	San Antonio Express News	Gibbons, B.	11/19/17
Texas leaders unhappy with White House hurricane spending plan	Austin American Statesman	Chang, J.	11/18/17	3 doc(s)
Austin-area manufacturers battle tight job market	Austin American Statesman	Zehr, D.	11/18/17	1 doc(s)
Texans blast Trump's $44B storm relief package as 'inadequate' as White House goes on defense	Dallas Morning News	Leslie, K.	11/18/17	3 doc(s)
Trump sends new $44 billion request for hurricane relief	Houston Chronicle	Diaz, K.	11/18/17	3 doc(s)
Cancelling STAAR tests in Harvey's wake could wipe out federal funding, TEA leader says	Houston Chronicle	Carpenter, J.	11/18/17	4 doc(s)
Democrats debate how best to seize anti-Trump election opportunity shown in other states	San Antonio Express News	Fikac, P.	11/18/17
A few months after Harvey, Houston’s long recovery quietly heads inside	Austin American Statesman	Wilson, S.	11/19/17
As Austin nursing shortage grows, traveling nurses help fill gap	Austin American Statesman	Zehr, D.	11/19/17
PolitiFact: Texas doesn’t have gun checks, but feds do	Austin American Statesman	Valverde, M.	11/19/17
Pastor reveals ‘dirty little secret’ to Texas educators, teaches them how to vote out ‘stupid’	Dallas Morning News	Lieber, D.	11/19/17
Politicians work for us, not themselves	Houston Chronicle	Grieder, E.	11/19/17
3 wastewater treatment plants offline with $1M in damages caused by Harvey	Houston Chronicle	Stuckey, A.	11/19/17
Texas conservative challenges Cruz, but says they 'agree on a lot of things'	Houston Chronicle	Drusch, A.	11/19/17
The late John W. Wiesner remembered at Mickey Gilley concert	Houston Chronicle	Ellsworth, M.	11/19/17
GOP chair launches congressional bid, with help from Parscale	San Antonio Express News	Garcia, G.	11/19/17
Candidate filing period kicks off 2018 election cycle	San Antonio Express News	Scherer, J.	11/19/17
Governor’s tweet: Inaccurate or a breach of confidentiality?	Austin American Statesman	Zehr, D.	11/18/17	2 doc(s)
State alcohol regulators investigating death of Texas State student	Austin American Statesman	Wilson, M.	11/18/17
Gov. Greg Abbott calls for Roy Moore to drop out of Alabama Senate race if allegations true	Dallas Morning News	Wang, J.	11/18/17
Garland crime lab analyst's misleading testimony leads to statewide changes	Dallas Morning News	Wigglesworth, V.	11/18/17
Abbott: $5 billion in housing recovery aid heading to Texas	Houston Chronicle	Matos, A.	11/18/17	1 doc(s)
Houston case highlights how juveniles fare in criminal justice system	Houston Chronicle	Downen, R.	11/18/17	1 doc(s)
Gov. Abbott calls Moore sex-abuse allegations ‘disgusting,’ says he shouldn’t be in race if they are true	San Antonio Express News	Fikac, P.	11/18/17
TABC joins investigation into death of Texas State student after fraternity event	San Antonio Express News	Downs, C.	11/18/17
When Unpaid Student Loan Bills Mean You Can No Longer Work	New York Times	Silver-Greenberg, J.	11/19/17
Steve Mostyn, Texas Democratic Fund-Raiser, Dies at 46	New York Times	Montgomery, D.	11/19/17
White House Requests More Disaster Aid but Also Seeks Cuts as Deficits Rise	New York Times	Kaplan, T.	11/18/17
Lawmakers Say Latest $44 Billion Storm Aid Package Needs to Be Bigger	Wall Street Journal	Peterson, K.	11/18/17

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