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)

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