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Texas Folklife Announces the 15th Annual Big Squeeze Accordion Competition

About the ProgramThis is the 15th year for The Big Squeeze Accordion Contest and we are so excited to showcase young...
Texas Opens COVID-19 Vaccination to All Adults on March 29

Texas DHSH – All adults will be eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine in Texas beginning Monday, March 29. The Texas...

Trying to forget 2020? Study reveals best technique

By ROZ BROWNTexas News Service AUSTIN, Texas – People use a variety of methods to stop thinking...
COVID-19: Texas families urged to discuss end-of-life planning over holidays

By ROZ BROWNTexas News Service AUSTIN, Texas — COVID-19 has forced many families to make end-of-life decisions...
Survey: Fewer than half of Texans “very likely” to get COVID-19 vaccine

By ROZ BROWNTexas News Service AUSTIN, Texas — Texans need the right messaging from trusted advisers if...
No relief from Feds for threatened monarch butterfly

By ROZ BROWNTexas News Service AUSTIN, Texas – The monarch butterfly is threatened with extinction, but will...
Texas families struggle to keep ahead of pandemic hardships

By ROZ BROWNTexas News Service AUSTIN, Texas — Congress has passed a new stimulus package that will...
Texans get preview of potential high court changes to Roe v. Wade

By ROZ BROWNTexas News Service AUSTIN, Texas — New Mexico and Colorado are likely to become major...
Texas lawmakers consider bill to streamline SNAP

By ROZ BROWNTexas News Service AUSTIN, Texas — Food insecurity doubled at the start of the pandemic,...
Pandemic: “Biggest disruption to college since World War II”

By ROZ BROWNTexas News Service AUSTIN, Texas – A new initiative to turn around the college enrollment...