MONDAY TOP NEWS LINKS:
Hurricane season launched at the beginning of the month, but lawmakers in Austin have been in session since January. While a House panel plans to address the Texas Windstorm Insurance Assocation again this week, a fear of what doing nothing means to the Texas Gulf Coast residents until after the next storm, is very scary.
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LOCAL AREA HEADLINES:
- HPD-HFD ‘Guns and Hoses’ hockey game raises money for firefighters, families (KIAH 39 Newsfix)
- Lifeguard drowns at community pool in Cinco Ranch (KPRC 2 News)
- Galveston shelters see animals so weird some don’t even belong there (Chron.com)
- UTMB developing backpack emergency room (Houston Chronicle)
- City announces list of neighborhoods to get bigger recycling bins (Chron.com)
- After a slow rise, solar starts to shine (Houston Chronicle)
- Parts of Galveston Could Be Under Water in 20 Years Due to Erosion (Houston Press)
- Good Samaritan removes bees from Houston woman’s home (KPRC 2 News)
- Protest Aims to Close Detention Facility Outside Houston (KUT-Austin)
STATE HEADLINES:
- Abortion Bills Debate in Texas Senate Slated for Next Week (KUT-Austin)
- House panel to discuss insurance group’s finances (Austin Statesman)
- Federal audit confirms cheating at El Paso schools (Austin Statesman)
NATION & WORLD
- Lenders seek court actions against homeowners years after foreclosure (Washington Post)
- Above the law: America’s worst charities (CNN)
- Bullying by siblings just as damaging, research finds (USA Today)
- Republicans trying to use health-care law to derail Obama’s immigration reform efforts (Washington Post)
- The Gulf of Mexico, 3 Years after BP (Scientific American)