This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses:
- Former Gov. Rick Perry’s exclusive interview with The Texan on school choice
- A House committee hearing testimony on a bill to legalize sports betting and some casinos
- The House passing a bill to eliminate sales taxes on feminine hygiene products
- The divide between House Democrats over a bill to remove “sexually explicit” books from public school libraries
- Former President Trump criticizing his rival Ron DeSantis at his Waco rally
- The movement of bills on transgender athletes in women’s sports and child gender modification
- U.S. Senators from Texas Ted Cruz and John Cornyn working on designating a new interstate highway
- The ongoing case of Army Sgt. Daniel Perry who shot and killed an Austin protester in 2020
- The Austin Police Department’s new departures this month amid its existing attrition
- The Texas DPS sending troopers to alleviate the stress of Austin’s police staffing crisis
- A Texas man facing over a century in prison and a $4 million fine for COVID-19 loan fraud
- Carroll ISD voting to leave the Texas Association of School Boards
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Daniel Friend
Daniel Friend is the Marketing and Media Manager for The Texan. After graduating with a double-major in Political Science and Humanities, he wrote for The Texan as a reporter through June 2022. In his spare time, you're likely to find him working on The Testimony of Calvin Lewis, an Abolition of Man-inspired novel and theatrical podcast.
