BG READS - August 5, 2026
✅ Today's BG Reads include:
🟪 Austin City Council signs off on $295 million bond proposal (Austin Current)
🟪 University of Texas poised to quietly make sweeping bike, scooter restrictions (Austin American-Statesman)
🟪 Federal relief for Kerrville's second round of flooding slowed (Texas Public Radio)
🟪 Why Texas is betting 'Y'all Street' can take on Wall Street (NPR)
🟪 More than 85,000 students using school vouchers in Texas' first year (Texas Tribune)
🟪 Texas’ anti-NIMBY housing law is getting results (Dallas Morning News)
🟪 25 states sue over Trump’s new tariffs, calling them ‘pretext’ to replace his old ones (Associated Press)
🟪 How Democratic Socialists are wrestling with their next moves (New York Times)