BG READS - August 12, 2026
✅ Today's BG Reads include:
🟪 Agenda + Livestream for 10AM Austin City Council Budget Adoption Reading
🟪 City Council faces final budget decisions on social service changes, funding priorities (Community Impact)
🟪 Austin fire chief retires abruptly; city to launch nationwide search (KUT)
🟪 UT Dell Medical Center expected to cost $5B, construction could start next month (Austin Business Journal)
🟪 Gov. Greg Abbott touts tech company cooperation, following Trump criticism of data center policy (Houston Public Media)
🟪 While data centers boom in Texas, their plans stay shrouded in secrecy (Texas Tribune)
🟪 Trial lawyers, once a force for Democrats, reclaim political clout in Texas GOP’s MAGA wing (Texas Tribune)
🟪 Texas cuts child care subsidy program. Here’s what that means. (Texas Tribune)