BG READS - August 18, 2026
✅ Today's BG Reads include:
🟪 Austin creates new office to oversee 911 calls, despite reservations from public safety officials (KUT)
🟪 Austin ISD delays first phase boundary recommendations to September (Community Impact)
🟪 Feds pausing Big Bend border construction while CBP commissioner visits the park (Texas Tribune)
🟪 Texas has now surpassed Virginia for data center construction (Austin Business Journal)
🟪 The real estate kernel of Texas Republicans’ mounting legislative attack on Muslims (The Real Deal)
🟪 Texas AG Paxton claims widespread noncitizen voting. Three people have been charged. (NBC News)
🟪 Democrats face a potential Tea Party moment (New York Times)