Current Event Assignment 2 is due March 10, 2020. Please submit in .doc, .docx, or .pdf format. Before submitting, check the following: 1) Is the article used about the Texas State Government? 2) D

Texas lawmakers ask Gov. Greg Abbott to stop execution of Rodney Reed, whose guilt is widely doubted

https://www.texastribune.org/2019/11/05/rodney-reed-texas-death-row-execution-greg-abbott-plea/

Austin's homeless residents consider Abbott's camp helpful but say his tweets still stigmatize them

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/02/04/texas-gov-greg-abbotts-homeless-camp-helpful-his-tweets-stigmatizing/

Abbott says the homeless need mental health care. Advocates say Medicaid expansion would help.

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/02/27/texas-medicaid-expansion-would-help-homeless-advocates-say/

Conservative activists helped elect Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick. Now some say there’s a disconnect.

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/01/29/dan-patrick-conservative-activists-disconnect/

With GOP supermajority at risk in 2020, Dan Patrick says Texas Senate may lower threshold to bring bills to the floor

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/01/23/dan-patrick-says-he-may-further-lower-threshold-bring-bills-senate-flo/

With a lame-duck speaker, Texas House confronts the work of the interim

https://www.texastribune.org/2019/10/22/bonnen-lame-duck-speaker-interim-charges-redistricting/

Texas state crime labs won’t test suspected marijuana in low-level cases

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/02/26/texas-marijuana-misdemeanor-cases-wont-go-to-dps-crime-labs/

Analysis: Why would a Texas Democrat want a seat in the Republican state Senate?

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/02/24/why-would-texas-democrat-want-seat-republican-state-senate/

State Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr. bets on experience, seniority as he confronts two Democratic primary challengers

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/02/25/eddie-lucio-jr-faces-two-democratic-primary-challengers-texas-senate/

Advocates have long tried to change judicial selection in Texas. Is Dan Patrick their newest obstacle?

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/01/15/judicial-selection-reform-obstacle-dan-patrick/

In Democrats’ low-information judicial primaries, gender and ballot names may drive voters’ decisions

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/02/20/texas-supreme-court-criminal-appeals-democratic-primary-2020/

Texas court halts the execution of Stephen Barbee to consider U.S. Supreme Court precedent

https://www.texastribune.org/2019/09/23/texas-execution-stay-stephen-barbee/