Texas Tribune Brief

Sara Sullivan wishes every Texan who wanted a mail-in ballot could get one, especially now during the pandemic.

Starting Friday, most Texas counties will be able to host in-person crowds for outdoor professional sporting events. But capacity will be limited to 25%.

The Texas Panhandle, where a workforce of Hispanics and immigrants powers several meatpacking plants, is home to the highest rates of infection in the state.

Gov. Greg Abbott issued a proclamation Tuesday adding a few types of businesses to the list.

Texas is locked in a legal battle over whether it must expand voting by mail.

Latonya Stott is excited to return to work full time, but she wants to wait a couple of weeks before sending her two youngest children to day care again. She explains why in the weekend edition of The Brief podcast.

The congressman from Heath will oversee 17 intelligence agencies. His appointment creates a vacancy in one of Texas' most conservative districts.

Most of the money is expected to go directly to local districts to help vulnerable students during the coronavirus pandemic.

A child care subsidy program for essential workers will stop taking applications after Wednesday, and on June 1, low-income parents will stop getting an extra subsidy they have been receiving to help during the pandemic.

Child care opens immediately, bars can open Friday and sports will be allowed to return at the end of the month, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Monday.