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‘F—k Greg Abbott,’ I-35 Construction: The top 10 headlines in San Antonio this week
People either like seeing profanity or don’t care much for Texas’ Republican governor. Take your pick.
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Texas Supreme Court rules that investigations into families with transgender kids can continue
Even so, the court said Texas’ child welfare agency is “not compelled by law” to follow orders from Gov. Greg Abbott.
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Treasury Department opens investigation into Gov. Greg Abbott’s use of federal funds for border mission
Texas has been using coronavirus relief money to help pay for the multibillion-dollar deployment.
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Texas Dems ask White House to probe Gov. Greg Abbott’s use of COVID funds for border crackdown
The urging comes days after a Washington Post investigation reported that Abbott rerouted $1 million in federal pandemic funds into Operation Lone Star.
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Man in ‘F—k Greg Abbott’ T-shirt makes it into MSNBC report on abortion rights
That slogan about Texas’ Republican governor has proliferated not just on shirts but also on yard signs, stickers and as a Twitter hashtag.
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Housing Costs, Border Slowdown Payback: The top 10 headlines in San Antonio this week
Readers apparently are concerned about home prices, border trade and cheap concert tickets.
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Gov. Greg Abbott blasted for ‘cruel’ claim he wants to deny public education to undocumented kids
‘The governor is showing us that the cruelty in his heart knows no depths,’ said an American Federation of Teachers official.
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The Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade action will energize Democratic voters. What’s that mean in Texas?
If considerable funding rolls into the state, it could help narrow margins for Democrats, experts say, but that’s a big “if.”
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Medical, legal experts say Texas AG Ken Paxton ‘warped’ facts in opinion on transgender kids
Following the release of Paxton’s opinion, Gov. Greg Abbott ordered Texas child welfare officials to investigate families of transgender children.
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Mexico says major rail project will bypass Texas as payback for Abbott slowing border trade
Mexico’s economy minister says her country won’t “be hostages to someone who wants to use trade as a political tool.”
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott slashes $500 million from state budgets to flow money into border crackdown
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission will take the biggest cut, losing $211 million.
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$250K Shed, Isis Romero: The top 10 headlines in San Antonio this week
Apparently, people had a hard time believing a three-room shed east of downtown could be listed for $250,000.
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Gov. Greg Abbott asks for donations to bus migrants as he gets flak for using taxpayer funds
The governor’s office wouldn’t say how much it’s raised or whether the trips will be funded solely by donations going forward.
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Report shows Texas leaders’ repeated attempts to mislead the public about Operation Lone Star
Gov. Greg Abbott says his immigration crackdown has nabbed 887 pounds of fentanyl, for example, but that number is statewide, not from the border.
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Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke tests positive for COVID-19
“In addition to being fully vaccinated and boosted, I regularly test for COVID-19 while traveling the state for town hall meetings,” he said in a statement.
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Some Texas Republicans push for Gov. Greg Abbott to use state personnel to deport migrants
Declaring an “invasion” under the U.S. Constitution is an incendiary idea that would spark immediate court challenges given that immigration law enforcement is a federal responsibility.
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Gubernatorial hopeful Beto O’Rourke hits unifying themes at Friday stop in San Antonio
During the town hall, the former El Paso congressman accused the governor of being “fixated on transgender kids.”
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In San Antonio, Gov. Greg Abbott says his much-touted buses to D.C. carried as few as nine migrants
Abbott has made national headlines by saying he’s shipping migrants to Washington D.C. because the Biden White House isn’t tough enough on immigration.
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What did Greg Abbott’s border inspections turn up? Oil leaks, flat tires and zero drugs
The governor ordered troopers to thoroughly inspect every commercial truck coming from Mexico in what he described as an effort to stop illegal drugs and migrants from being smuggled into Texas.
