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  • AG Paxton secures $1.167 billion for Texas in global opioid agreement 

    By Staff reports |
    MCKINNEY – Attorney General Paxton successfully secured $1.167 billion for Texas out of the $26 billion opioid agreement with the nation’s three major pharmaceutical distributors – Cardinal, McKesson, and AmerisourceBergen, a press release states.

  • Do Parents Have Rights?

    By Mark Pulliam |
    Loudoun County, Virginia, an affluent suburb of Washington, D.C., represents the contentious zeitgeist bedeviling the body politic. As I reported elsewhere last year, the Loudoun County school board has become ground zero in an escalating culture war in which concerned parents oppose leftist indoctrination posing as curriculum.

  • Texas AG Pax­ton announces glob­al opi­oid settlement

    By David Yates |
    AUSTIN - Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a historic $26 billion agreement that will bring desperately needed relief to Texans who are struggling with opioid addiction. The agreement includes Cardinal, McKesson, and AmerisourceBergen – the nation’s three major pharmaceutical distributors – and Johnson & Johnson, which manufactured and marketed opioids. The agreement also requires significant industry changes that will help prevent this type of crisis from ever happening again.

  • A Brief Legislative Report by Dick Trabulsi, TLR Chairman

    By Dick Trabulsi |
    Each legislative session is alike – and unique in its own way. This session is more unique than most. A slow, eerie start because of the pandemic and extra security due to the January breach at the U.S. Capitol produced a Texas Capitol that was empty and quiet rather than crowded and bustling, as is usual during session. And there is only one operational entrance rather than four, with heavily armed national guardsmen and DPS officers everywhere. Things are getting somewhat back to normal now, but only somewhat.

  • Texas GOP blasts COVID liability protections bill as vote nears

    By David Yates |
    AUSTIN – Guarding businesses and the medical community against frivolous lawsuits alleging COVID-19 exposure is apparently not a priority for the Texas GOP, as the party leader is voicing opposition to bills offering virus liability protections.

  • Keep Texas Trucking along by protecting against excessive lawsuits

    By Institute for Legal Reform |
    A pair of bills making their way through the Texas Legislature will bring much-needed and sensible reforms to a litigation system run amuck. House Bill 19 and its companion in the Senate aim to rein in excessive lawsuits that deliver big paydays for lawyers while threatening jobs for one of the state’s most important industries, and driving up insurance rates for everyone else.

  • Working moms are independent workers too, and we need flexibility and benefits

    By Crystal Smith-Pack |
    I am proud to say that I’m a working mom who has earned three college degrees and owned multiple businesses. I’ve worked hard all my life, and I recently found the perfect way to earn an income while taking care of my daughter -- independent, app-based work. I started driving for Uber Eats about a month ago, and I haven’t looked back.