Over Memorial Day weekend, Matthew McConaughey and his wife Camila McConaughey donated over 100,000 facemask to rural Texas based hospitals. Matthew and his wife partnered with Lincoln to help get these mask to these hospitals. With a fun instagram post made over the weekend of them both hitting the road to drop of the masks… Read more »
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Texas Is Open For Business!
Governor Greg Abbott announced the second phase of the State of Texas’ ongoing plan to safely and strategically open Texas while minimizing the spread of COVID-19. Under Phase II, restaurants may increase their occupancy to 50% and additional services and activities that remained closed under Phase I may open with restricted occupancy levels and minimum standard health… Read more »
GOV. GREG ABBOTT ORDERS TERMINATION ON TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS RELATED TO COVID-19
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has officially terminated all air travel restrictions put in place for the safety of all residents during lockdown. As of today that mandated quarantines for air travel arriving from California, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Washington, Atlanta, Georgia, Chicago, Michigan, and Miami may now travel into Texas with no stay at… Read more »
Texas COVID-19 cases rise, governor’s office says more testing being done
Texas has seen a steady rise in novel coronavirus cases and fatalities since reopening just over two weeks ago. There are now 45,198 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. That is an increase of 1,347 cases from Thursday to Friday. The new numbers have not… Read more »
Texas has billions in its rainy day fund. But legislators say they won’t use it until January.
As Texas’ economy reels from a monthlong shutdown of commerce statewide, unprecedented unemployment and falling oil prices, some Texans are calling on officials to tap into the state’s Economic Stabilization Fund that has billions of tax dollars officials have been saving for years. Texas voters created the account, also called the rainy day fund, after the oil bust of the late 1980s, according to the… Read more »
Texas governor eliminates jail as a punishment for violating executive order
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has issued a change to his executive orders related to COVID-19, eliminating confinement as a punishment for violating the orders. The governor mentioned Dallas salon owner Shelley Luther by name when issuing the change. He said it supersedes local orders and should be applied retroactively to April 2. Luther was jailed for seven days… Read more »