This Week in Texas: Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Posted February 17, 2016 in The Mignon Memo

El Papa en El Paso.

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Today, tens of thousands of El Pasoans and visitors will flock to the Sun Bowl Stadium to celebrate Mass with Pope Francis. The mass will be televised live as it is held 2 miles away in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. At least 200,000 are expected to cross the four bridges from El Paso to Ciudad Juarez for a chance to see the Pope. To read more…

Early Voting for the March 1st Primary has begun!

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Early Voting for the March 1st Texas Primary started yesterday and goes through Friday, February 26. It’s your civic duty. (And the best way to have the block walkers and phone bankers check you off of their lists!) To read more…

Saying goodbye to Justice Antonin Scalia.

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 Over the weekend, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died of a heart attack in Marfa, Texas. As the justice in charge of emergency motions coming from Texas, Justice Scalia impacted Texas greatly. He was given the first chance to stop or allow state officials from enforcing hot legal issues such as abortion restrictions, voter ID, redistricting maps, and last minute halts of death sentences. To read more…

Only in Austin…

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Football season may be over, but feelings remain strong in Austin regarding the TX-OU rivalry. A traffic sign located at Rio Grande and 24th Street was recently hacked with a phrase that has been on the lips of many a Longhorn. This could be the most popular traffic sign in Austin history.  To read more…