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  Need Unemployment Benefits in Texas? Talk to Larry. Maybe He’ll Help.

  April 2 at 4 a.m.

  As thousands and thousands of Texans continue to lose their jobs as the state and the rest of the world suffer through the COVID-19 pandemic, the Texas Workforce Commission has been overwhelmed. The commission's phone lines have been overwhelmed, and its website huffs, puffs and stalls during high-traffic hours. The...

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  Abortion Rights Groups Sue Texas Over Coronavirus Abortion Ban

  March 26 at 11:11 a.m.

  If you're looking for some normalcy during the novel coronavirus pandemic, here it is: Texas, now as has been for the last decade, is getting sued over an abortion restriction. This time, no big surprise, it's Gov. Greg Abbott's ban on all abortions that don't save the would-be mother's life,...

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  Dan Patrick’s Coronavirus Solution? Kill Granny.

  March 24 at 11:58 a.m.

  Coronavirus isn't the real threat to the American economy. At least, not according to Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick. The real threat to the American economy is Granny. Your granny, our grannies, everybody's granny. If they'd just stop being so sensitive, we could all go back outside, according to the...

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  Texas Gov. Abbott Banned Abortion Last Week and Didn’t Think to Mention It

  March 24 at 4 a.m.

  Gov. Greg Abbott didn't say anything about it last week, when he announced his ban on elective medical procedures, but Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton made it clear Monday afternoon — abortion is banned in Texas until, at the earliest, April 3. Before the novel coronavirus pandemic, anyone seeking an...

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  Texas Unemployment Picture Is as Stark as Stark Gets

  March 20 at 4 a.m.

  As the novel coronavirus slowly turns all of our lives into a dreary hellscape, one of the few bits of good news for workers in Texas has been Gov. Greg Abbott's decision to make the state's byzantine unemployment insurance system a little easier to navigate. It's about the least he...

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  The Worst Candidates To Survive the Texas Primary

  March 9 at 4 a.m.

  Many, many good candidates won their primaries last week in Texas. This story is not about those candidates. No, this story is about all the bad candidates — some with bad ideas, some with questionable moral compasses and some who are just washed up — who managed to survive Tuesday,...