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AUSTIN – Texas Health and Human Services is encouraging Texans to submit benefit applications and other paperwork online at YourTexasBenefits.com or via the Your Texas Benefits mobile app to reduce foot traffic in the state’s more than 250 eligibility offices.
Read moreWe plan for the future though we aren’t promised tomorrow. We set appointments, dates, and fill our calendars with events for the future. These schedules, timelines, and calendars, are all designed to prepare for future events. But when some thing unexpected comes up, we panic. We worry that our lives will be ruined and that our plan won’t work out. But never in my life has panic helped fix my problems, so I’ve done my best to avoid losing my mind if something goes wrong when I didn’t even have control in the first place.
Read moreAUSTIN — Texas is more invested every day in promoting increased and thorough hand washing, disinfecting surfaces and social distancing to reduce cases of the rapidly spreading novel coronavirus, COVID-19.
Read more(March 10, 2020) -- AEP Texas has learned that scam attempts are continuing to occur throughout its service territory. Unfortunately, some of these attempts have been successful. The latest attempts have occurred in the Alice, Falfurrias and parts of the Rio Grande Valley.
Read moreThe March 4th edition of the Citizen contained an Op-Ed entitled “Socialist planks take front page of Citizen” authored by Chris Christensen. After reading the opinion I felt compelled to dig through the recycling and reread the article that had the writer so animated. While it appears that the overall platform of the Democratic propositions was offensive to the author, of particular ire was Proposition 4 which I shall quote in full as it was not included as part of his article:
Read moreAUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott on March 13 declared a state of disaster in all Texas counties and listed actions agencies are taking to contain and minimize the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus, a contagious flu-like respiratory disease. Abbott said agency actions would include:
Read moreAUSTIN - Governor Greg Abbott and Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) Commissioner John Hellerstedt, MD, today urged Texans to continue taking preventative measures against Coronavirus (CO- VID-19) to contain the spread of the disease. The Governor and Commissioner urged Texans to heed the direction of health providers and public health entities, and asked that Texans take common sense, everyday action to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses.
Read moreAUSTIN – Last week, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) began issuing the newly designed Texas driver licenses (DL), identification (ID) cards and license to carry (LTC) cards to all Texans. Most notably, all of the cards will feature a new look with an updated design and enhanced security features. The DL/ID cards will also feature visible and discrete identifiers on the front. It’s important to note that previously issued DLs are still valid until the expiration date listed on the card.
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