Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:

A partial shutdown of the federal government, ever more likely as of this weekend, will immediately impact Texans, in ways we may not have considered: https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09/27/government-shutdown-texas/

...Farmers in Texas will be impacted as well: https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09/27/farm-bill-texas-agriculture/

Many in the crowds of migrants overwhelming El Paso have no destination in mind, and no means to get there: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/27/us/texas-migrants-border-el-paso.html

...While a Palestine man accused in the deaths of dozens of migrants in a trafficking operation gone awry has pled guilty to an array of federal charges: https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/28/us/texas-migrant-smuggling-deaths-christian-martinez/index.html

Governor Abbott, while claiming credit for packing buses of migrants into New York City, pays the Big Apple a visit: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/after-sending-busloads-of-migrants-to-nyc-texas-governor-visits-city-to-fault-biden-for-crisis/4718565/

Abbott is also dead set on school vouchers - do Texas families feel as strongly? https://komonews.com/renderer/komonews/amp/news/nation-world/texas-may-give-school-choice-the-green-light-do-families-want-it-greg-abbott-voucher-funding-public-private-charter-crisis-in-the-classroom

Phoenix House, a treatment organization for low-income teens struggling with addiction, is folding due to reduced state funding: https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09/27/texas-teens-drug-treatment/

Texas lawmakers in D.C. are asking a federal agency to stop Texas from disenrolling Medicaid beneficiaries via its broken enrollment system: https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09/28/texas-hhsc-medicaid/

Cochran County becomes the first Texas county on a state line to consider a so-called "abortion trafficking" ordinance: https://news4sanantonio.com/renderer/news4sanantonio/amp/news/local/a-texas-county-that-borders-new-mexico-is-the-latest-to-consider-an-abortion-travel-ban-tribune-people-politics-state-community-babies-medical

Laredo, Corpus Christi, Brownsville and Lubbock all fare poorly on a ranking of U.S. cities by quality of life for women: https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/safe-texas-cities-for-women-18392201.php

The Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex ranks third in the world for transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions: https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/dallas-pollution-emissions-texas-18389243.php

Are robot cars the answer to all that pollution? Not so far in Houston: https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/transportation/article/houston-cruise-self-driving-cars-18390306.php

...Nor in Austin: https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/west-austin-neighbors-petition-against-self-driving-cars/#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16958955627571&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kxan.com%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Faustin%2Fwest-austin-neighbors-petition-against-self-driving-cars%2F

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