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MRT 2/28/25 & 3/1/25 (free) (sponsored Inspire Financial): Outbreak Hits 150 Cases // Senate Bans Lottery Couriers // Trump Admin Removes 5 TX Immigration Judges // Harris County Covers $870k Legal Bill
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| Subject | MRT 2/28/25 & 3/1/25 (free) (sponsored Inspire Financial): Outbreak Hits 150 Cases // Senate Bans Lottery Couriers // Trump Admin Removes 5 TX Immigration Judges // Harris County Covers $870k Legal Bill |
| Date | March 1, 2025 6:03 PM |
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* **TOP NEWS**
“**Texas measles outbreak reaches nearly 150 cases**,” Dallas Morning News'** Jaime Landers **— “[The measles outbreak in Texas]([link removed]) has reached nearly 150 cases, according to a Friday morning update from the state health department.
Health officials said 146 cases have been identified since late January, up from the 124 cases reported earlier this week. Twenty of those patients have been hospitalized, and one school-age, [unvaccinated child has died]([link removed]).
Measles is one of [the most contagious viruses in the world]([link removed]), and spreads mostly among unvaccinated people. Of the 146 cases in Texas, 141 cases were in people who were either unvaccinated or whose vaccination status was unknown, according to the state health department.
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The outbreak started in Gaines County, near the New Mexico border. At 98 cases, it is still home to a vast majority of patients. Terry County is next at 21 cases, and Dawson County follows at eight.
Texas’ count doesn’t include nine measles cases [reported in New Mexico]([link removed]), which officials have said were likely connected to the West Texas outbreak." [DMN]([link removed]) ($)
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* **TOP NEWS**
“**Texas leaders quiet amid the biggest measles outbreak in decades**” [Texas Tribune]([link removed])
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* **#TXLEGE**
“**Texas Senate passes ban on lottery sales through courier services**” [SAEN]([link removed]) ($)
“**Bills introduced a year after state’s largest blaze seek to limit wildfires**” [Texas Tribune]([link removed])
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* **LOCAL GOVERNMENT**
“**Commissioners OK $870K for Hidalgo and ex-aide's Elevate legal fees**” [Houston Chronicle]([link removed]) ($)
“**Bexar County DA asks Texas AG: Are speeding ticket cameras legal?**” [SAEN]([link removed]) ($)
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* **TRUMP ADMINISTRATION**
“**Trump administration removes five immigration judges in Texas, union says**” [Texas Tribune]([link removed])
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* **NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE**
> TX TRIB: "**Trump tariffs set to hit Texas’ biggest trading partners beginning next week**" _[TX TRIB]([link removed])_
> TX TRIB: "**A year after Texas’ largest wildfire, Panhandle residents tugged between hope and anxiety**" _[TX TRIB]([link removed])_
> TX TRIB: "**Trump administration removes five immigration judges in Texas, union says**" _[TX TRIB]([link removed])_
> TX TRIB: "**Bills introduced a year after state’s largest blaze seek to limit wildfires**" _[TX TRIB]([link removed])_
> AP: "**Measles is one of the world’s most contagious viruses. Here’s what to know and how to avoid it**" _[AP]([link removed])_
> HOU CHRON: "**Abbott steps up online attacks as support builds for school vouchers**" _[HOU CHRON]([link removed])_
> TX MONTHLY: "**Sunday’s Moon Landing Could Fulfill a Texas Tech Professor’s Dream—or End in a Nightmare**" _[TX MONTHLY]([link removed])_
> HOU CHRON: "**Wynn Resorts share repurchase boosts Fertitta to become largest stakeholder**" _[HOU CHRON]([link removed])_
> COMMUNITY IMPACT: "**Texas Senate passes bill that would give experienced teachers up to $10K raises**" _[COMMUNITY IMPACT]([link removed])_
> HOU CHRON: "**This longtime Houston refinery is laying off 86% of its workforce by April**" _[HOU CHRON]([link removed])_
> COMMUNITY IMPACT: "**A Texas-UK partnership, school library councils: 5 legislative updates from DFW-area lawmakers**" _[COMMUNITY IMPACT]([link removed])_
> COMMUNITY IMPACT: "**188-acre Marketplace shopping center coming soon to Valley Ranch**" _[COMMUNITY IMPACT]([link removed])_
> COMMUNITY IMPACT: "**Keller ISD addresses $9.4M shortfall, budget cuts for fiscal year 2025-26**" _[COMMUNITY IMPACT]([link removed])_
> COMMUNITY IMPACT: "**Houston ISD to consider potential campus closures as 2025-26 budget talks begin**" _[COMMUNITY IMPACT]([link removed])_
> COMMUNITY IMPACT: "**Houston First Corporation sees record-setting year with 54M visitors in 2024**" _[COMMUNITY IMPACT]([link removed])_
> AP: "**Texas lottery drawings that paid out big jackpots are the focus of widening investigatons**" _[AP]([link removed])_
> TX TRIB: "**A shortage of criminal defense attorneys threatens indigent right to counsel in rural Texas**" _[TX TRIB]([link removed])_
> TX TRIB: "**Who are the Mennonites in a Texas community where measles is spreading?**" _[TX TRIB]([link removed])_
> AP: "**Texas says this doctor illegally treated trans youth. He says he followed the law**" _[AP]([link removed])_
> HOU CHRON: "**BP shifts focus to oil and gas production in latest strategy**" _[HOU CHRON]([link removed])_
> TX MONTHLY: "**Un Pasaje a la Muerte**" _[TX MONTHLY]([link removed])_
> AP: "**Private company rockets toward the moon in the latest rush of lunar landing attempts**" _[AP]([link removed])_
> TX MONTHLY: "**Bighorn Sheep Once Roamed West Texas by the Thousands. Can They Do It Again?**" _[TX MONTHLY]([link removed])_
> TX MONTHLY: "**As Trump Clamps Down On Immigration, an El Paso Cafe for Migrants Continues Its Services—but Quietly**" _[TX MONTHLY]([link removed])_
> TX MONTHLY: "**A Deadly Passage**" _[TX MONTHLY]([link removed])_
> AP: "**As measles cases mount in the US, what’s the situation worldwide?**" _[AP]([link removed])_
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* **EXTRA POINTS**
Recent Texas sports scores:
Thurs
> NCAAM: **North Texas **71, Florida Atlantic 61
> NCAAM: **Tarleton State** 67, **Abilene Christian** 52
> NBA: **Dallas** 103, Charlotte 96
> NCAAM: Grand Canyon 85, **UT-Arlington** 71
> NCAAM: Western Kentucky 80, **UTEP** 73
Fri
> NHL: **Dallas** 6, LA 2
> NCAAM: **Texas State** 102, James Madison 93
This weekend's Texas sports schedule:
Sat
> 1pm: NCAAM: #10 **Texas Tech** at Kansas** **(ESPN)
> 2pm: NCAAM: **Abilene Christian** at **UT-Arlington **(ESPN+)
> 2:15pm: NCAAM:** Incarnate Word** at **East Texas A&M** (ESPN+)
> 3pm: NCAAM: **Prairie View A&M** at Alcorn State** **(ESPN+)
> 3pm: NCAAM: **Texas Southern** at Jackson State** **(ESPN+)
> 3pm: NCAAM: UCF at **TCU **(ESPN+)
> 3pm: NCAAM: Middle Tennessee State at **UTEP **(ESPN+)
> 3:30pm: NCAAM: Cincinnati at #4 **Houston **(CBS)
> 3:30pm: NCAAM: **Houston Christian** at Northwestern State** **(ESPN+)
> 2pm: NCAAM: **Abilene Christian** at **UT-Arlington **(ESPN+)
> 4pm: NCAAM: **SMU** at Stanford** **(ACC Network)
> 4:30pm: NCAAM: Louisiana Tech at **Sam Houston State **(ESPN+)
> 4:30pm: NCAAM: New Orleans at **UT-RGV **(ESPN+)
> 4:30pm: NCAAM: SE Louisiana at **Texas A&M-Corpus Christi **(ESPN+)
> 5pm: NCAAM: Nicholls at **Stephen F. Austin **(ESPN+)
> 6pm: NCAAM: McNeese at **Lamar **(ESPN+)
> 7pm: NBA: Sacramento at **Houston**
> 7pm: NBA: **San Antonio **at Memphis
> 7pm: NBA: Milwaukee at **Dallas**
> 7pm: NCAAM: Oklahoma State at **Baylor** **Abilene Christian** at **UT-Arlington **(ESPN+)
> 7pm: NCAAM: Georgia at **Texas **(ESPN2)
> 7:30pm: NCAAM: #12 **Texas A&M** at #3 Florida** **(SEC Network)
> 8:30pm: MLS: Colorado at **Dallas**
> 9:30pm: MLS: **Austin** at Portland
Sun
> 5pm: NCAAM: **Rice **at **UTSA **(ESPN+)
> 6pm: NBA: Oklahoma City at **San Antonio** (ESPN)
> 6pm: MLS: Miami at **Houston**
**DALLAS COWBOYS**: "Cowboys' Schottenheimer hits the ground running at NFL combine" [DMN]([link removed]) ($)
**TEXAS FOOTBALL**: "Jahdae Barron scouting profile: NFL draft projections, combine results" [AAS]([link removed]) ($)
**TEXAS A&M FOOTBALL**: "Texas A&M's Shemar Stewart draws comparisons to Aggie legend after scouting combine effort" [AAS]([link removed]) ($)
**TEXAS RANGERS**: "3 Rangers observations: Sebastian Walcott shows elite potential" [DMN]([link removed]) ($)
**NASCAR**: "NASCAR, hot off recent Daytona 500, brings its annual stop to Austin's COTA this week" [AAS]([link removed]) ($)
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* **TOP NEWS**
“**Texas measles outbreak reaches nearly 150 cases**,” Dallas Morning News'** Jaime Landers **— “[The measles outbreak in Texas]([link removed]) has reached nearly 150 cases, according to a Friday morning update from the state health department.
Health officials said 146 cases have been identified since late January, up from the 124 cases reported earlier this week. Twenty of those patients have been hospitalized, and one school-age, [unvaccinated child has died]([link removed]).
Measles is one of [the most contagious viruses in the world]([link removed]), and spreads mostly among unvaccinated people. Of the 146 cases in Texas, 141 cases were in people who were either unvaccinated or whose vaccination status was unknown, according to the state health department.
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The outbreak started in Gaines County, near the New Mexico border. At 98 cases, it is still home to a vast majority of patients. Terry County is next at 21 cases, and Dawson County follows at eight.
Texas’ count doesn’t include nine measles cases [reported in New Mexico]([link removed]), which officials have said were likely connected to the West Texas outbreak." [DMN]([link removed]) ($)
———————————————————————————
**FREE SUBSCRIPTIONS HAVE ENDED**_: As of July 11, 2022, we have moved to a paywall for free subscribers. Free subscribers will only receive the top story in their morning email. Free subscribers will need to become paid subscribers to receive full story summaries._
———————————————————————————
* **TOP NEWS**
“**Texas leaders quiet amid the biggest measles outbreak in decades**” [Texas Tribune]([link removed])
———————————————————————————
* **#TXLEGE**
“**Texas Senate passes ban on lottery sales through courier services**” [SAEN]([link removed]) ($)
“**Bills introduced a year after state’s largest blaze seek to limit wildfires**” [Texas Tribune]([link removed])
———————————————————————————
* **LOCAL GOVERNMENT**
“**Commissioners OK $870K for Hidalgo and ex-aide's Elevate legal fees**” [Houston Chronicle]([link removed]) ($)
“**Bexar County DA asks Texas AG: Are speeding ticket cameras legal?**” [SAEN]([link removed]) ($)
———————————————————————————
* **TRUMP ADMINISTRATION**
“**Trump administration removes five immigration judges in Texas, union says**” [Texas Tribune]([link removed])
———————————————————————————
* **NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE**
> TX TRIB: "**Trump tariffs set to hit Texas’ biggest trading partners beginning next week**" _[TX TRIB]([link removed])_
> TX TRIB: "**A year after Texas’ largest wildfire, Panhandle residents tugged between hope and anxiety**" _[TX TRIB]([link removed])_
> TX TRIB: "**Trump administration removes five immigration judges in Texas, union says**" _[TX TRIB]([link removed])_
> TX TRIB: "**Bills introduced a year after state’s largest blaze seek to limit wildfires**" _[TX TRIB]([link removed])_
> AP: "**Measles is one of the world’s most contagious viruses. Here’s what to know and how to avoid it**" _[AP]([link removed])_
> HOU CHRON: "**Abbott steps up online attacks as support builds for school vouchers**" _[HOU CHRON]([link removed])_
> TX MONTHLY: "**Sunday’s Moon Landing Could Fulfill a Texas Tech Professor’s Dream—or End in a Nightmare**" _[TX MONTHLY]([link removed])_
> HOU CHRON: "**Wynn Resorts share repurchase boosts Fertitta to become largest stakeholder**" _[HOU CHRON]([link removed])_
> COMMUNITY IMPACT: "**Texas Senate passes bill that would give experienced teachers up to $10K raises**" _[COMMUNITY IMPACT]([link removed])_
> HOU CHRON: "**This longtime Houston refinery is laying off 86% of its workforce by April**" _[HOU CHRON]([link removed])_
> COMMUNITY IMPACT: "**A Texas-UK partnership, school library councils: 5 legislative updates from DFW-area lawmakers**" _[COMMUNITY IMPACT]([link removed])_
> COMMUNITY IMPACT: "**188-acre Marketplace shopping center coming soon to Valley Ranch**" _[COMMUNITY IMPACT]([link removed])_
> COMMUNITY IMPACT: "**Keller ISD addresses $9.4M shortfall, budget cuts for fiscal year 2025-26**" _[COMMUNITY IMPACT]([link removed])_
> COMMUNITY IMPACT: "**Houston ISD to consider potential campus closures as 2025-26 budget talks begin**" _[COMMUNITY IMPACT]([link removed])_
> COMMUNITY IMPACT: "**Houston First Corporation sees record-setting year with 54M visitors in 2024**" _[COMMUNITY IMPACT]([link removed])_
> AP: "**Texas lottery drawings that paid out big jackpots are the focus of widening investigatons**" _[AP]([link removed])_
> TX TRIB: "**A shortage of criminal defense attorneys threatens indigent right to counsel in rural Texas**" _[TX TRIB]([link removed])_
> TX TRIB: "**Who are the Mennonites in a Texas community where measles is spreading?**" _[TX TRIB]([link removed])_
> AP: "**Texas says this doctor illegally treated trans youth. He says he followed the law**" _[AP]([link removed])_
> HOU CHRON: "**BP shifts focus to oil and gas production in latest strategy**" _[HOU CHRON]([link removed])_
> TX MONTHLY: "**Un Pasaje a la Muerte**" _[TX MONTHLY]([link removed])_
> AP: "**Private company rockets toward the moon in the latest rush of lunar landing attempts**" _[AP]([link removed])_
> TX MONTHLY: "**Bighorn Sheep Once Roamed West Texas by the Thousands. Can They Do It Again?**" _[TX MONTHLY]([link removed])_
> TX MONTHLY: "**As Trump Clamps Down On Immigration, an El Paso Cafe for Migrants Continues Its Services—but Quietly**" _[TX MONTHLY]([link removed])_
> TX MONTHLY: "**A Deadly Passage**" _[TX MONTHLY]([link removed])_
> AP: "**As measles cases mount in the US, what’s the situation worldwide?**" _[AP]([link removed])_
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* **EXTRA POINTS**
Recent Texas sports scores:
Thurs
> NCAAM: **North Texas **71, Florida Atlantic 61
> NCAAM: **Tarleton State** 67, **Abilene Christian** 52
> NBA: **Dallas** 103, Charlotte 96
> NCAAM: Grand Canyon 85, **UT-Arlington** 71
> NCAAM: Western Kentucky 80, **UTEP** 73
Fri
> NHL: **Dallas** 6, LA 2
> NCAAM: **Texas State** 102, James Madison 93
This weekend's Texas sports schedule:
Sat
> 1pm: NCAAM: #10 **Texas Tech** at Kansas** **(ESPN)
> 2pm: NCAAM: **Abilene Christian** at **UT-Arlington **(ESPN+)
> 2:15pm: NCAAM:** Incarnate Word** at **East Texas A&M** (ESPN+)
> 3pm: NCAAM: **Prairie View A&M** at Alcorn State** **(ESPN+)
> 3pm: NCAAM: **Texas Southern** at Jackson State** **(ESPN+)
> 3pm: NCAAM: UCF at **TCU **(ESPN+)
> 3pm: NCAAM: Middle Tennessee State at **UTEP **(ESPN+)
> 3:30pm: NCAAM: Cincinnati at #4 **Houston **(CBS)
> 3:30pm: NCAAM: **Houston Christian** at Northwestern State** **(ESPN+)
> 2pm: NCAAM: **Abilene Christian** at **UT-Arlington **(ESPN+)
> 4pm: NCAAM: **SMU** at Stanford** **(ACC Network)
> 4:30pm: NCAAM: Louisiana Tech at **Sam Houston State **(ESPN+)
> 4:30pm: NCAAM: New Orleans at **UT-RGV **(ESPN+)
> 4:30pm: NCAAM: SE Louisiana at **Texas A&M-Corpus Christi **(ESPN+)
> 5pm: NCAAM: Nicholls at **Stephen F. Austin **(ESPN+)
> 6pm: NCAAM: McNeese at **Lamar **(ESPN+)
> 7pm: NBA: Sacramento at **Houston**
> 7pm: NBA: **San Antonio **at Memphis
> 7pm: NBA: Milwaukee at **Dallas**
> 7pm: NCAAM: Oklahoma State at **Baylor** **Abilene Christian** at **UT-Arlington **(ESPN+)
> 7pm: NCAAM: Georgia at **Texas **(ESPN2)
> 7:30pm: NCAAM: #12 **Texas A&M** at #3 Florida** **(SEC Network)
> 8:30pm: MLS: Colorado at **Dallas**
> 9:30pm: MLS: **Austin** at Portland
Sun
> 5pm: NCAAM: **Rice **at **UTSA **(ESPN+)
> 6pm: NBA: Oklahoma City at **San Antonio** (ESPN)
> 6pm: MLS: Miami at **Houston**
**DALLAS COWBOYS**: "Cowboys' Schottenheimer hits the ground running at NFL combine" [DMN]([link removed]) ($)
**TEXAS FOOTBALL**: "Jahdae Barron scouting profile: NFL draft projections, combine results" [AAS]([link removed]) ($)
**TEXAS A&M FOOTBALL**: "Texas A&M's Shemar Stewart draws comparisons to Aggie legend after scouting combine effort" [AAS]([link removed]) ($)
**TEXAS RANGERS**: "3 Rangers observations: Sebastian Walcott shows elite potential" [DMN]([link removed]) ($)
**NASCAR**: "NASCAR, hot off recent Daytona 500, brings its annual stop to Austin's COTA this week" [AAS]([link removed]) ($)
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