Texas Tribune Brief

The Department of State Health Services is looking into outbreaks at JBS Beef in Moore County and Tyson Foods in Shelby County.

Patrick went on Fox News on Monday evening to defend comments he made last month that he would rather die from the new coronavirus than see the economy destroyed for his children and grandchildren.

It's the lowest price for a barrel of crude since at least the 1980s.

Texas officials closed down campuses in early March and are losing millions of dollars as they pay students back for housing, parking and other unused services.

Texas unemployment claims continue to rise as Texans struggle to file them. The Texas Workforce Commission is expanding its call centers, servers and staff, but many still face delays.

The Railroad Commission, which oversees the state's oil and gas industry, took more than 10 hours of testimony about whether the agency should lower production as the coronavirus lowers demand.

Relatives of Texas prisoners approved for parole question why their loved ones have to stay in disease-prone facilities while completing programs they say could be done virtually and from home.

He says he'll outline his plans this week, but it won't be a "rush-the-gates, everybody-is-able-to-suddenly-reopen-all-at-once" situation.

The Government Accountability Office found that the government spent $66 million in taxpayer money over five months to hold an average of 28 people per day at the tent encampment near El Paso.

The numbers are early — but incomplete — indicators of how dramatically and suddenly the state's economy has collapsed under social distancing orders officials issued to curb the still growing public health crisis spurred by the novel coronavirus.