Texas Tribune Brief

Reps. Briscoe Cain and Steve Toth said there's no reason to continue banning businesses from operating as long as they follow CDC guidelines. Such restrictions, they said, are hurting the Texas economy.

Some of the nation's biggest COVID-19 outbreaks have been in prisons and jails, and they can quickly spread to surrounding communities. Are Texas prisons doing enough to protect inmates, staff and the public?

Potter County has roughly four times the infection rate of Harris and Dallas counties.

Listen to Karen Jones' story in this limited weekend edition of the Brief podcast.

The schools are gearing up to resume in-person classes, and hope to be football ready.

Restaurant, retail and movie theater workers may be called back to work as soon as Friday. But licensed child care remains open only for children of "essential" workers.

f a business reopens and an employee chooses not to return to work, they become ineligible for unemployment, according to the Texas Workforce Commission.

"Just as we united as one state to slow COVID-19, we must also come together to begin rebuilding the lives and the livelihoods of our fellow Texans,” - Gov. Greg Abbott

Abbott said he is seeking approval from medical advisers on the business reopenings and that they will reopen under new standards to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

With most Texans staying at home and not driving, the demand for gas has fallen off. But refineries would stop producing before giving gas away for free.