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Hotze is the most high-profile plaintiff in a lawsuit filed in Fort Worth seeking to overturn Obamacare's preventive care mandate: star-telegram.com/news/local/cro… Hotze says ACA-compliant insurance shouldn't cover the cost of PrEP, contraception, STI testing, etc.

I'm tuning in to the Texas House's public health hearing this morning, where there's lots of anti-vax bills on the agenda. Lots of misinformation & disinformation have fueled some of the proposed bills being discussed today. Livestream here: house.texas.gov/video-audio/

If you supported the Fort Worth NewsGuild ☀️ while I was there, I ask that you shift some of that drive to the Florida Times-Union Guild 🦣 for just a second & send a letter to Gannett CEO Mike Reed. It took me just a couple minutes! 👊🏼 Jacksonville journalists need a fair contract now.

I never wanted to write this. But some stories you tell or they tell you. 🙏 The Atlantic for the platform. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Todd Interests has been clear that they consider their development plans for Fairfield Lake State Park to be "confidential." But in January, their CEO texted a marketing packet to a state official. That text is public info. And we have the full packet:star-telegram.com/news/local/art…

BREAKING: U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk has stayed (essentially stopped from being in effect) the FDA’s approval of mifepristone, an abortion-inducing medication that was initially approved in 2000. Ruling goes into effect in seven days to allow appeal to 5th Circuit.

MORE BREAKING: A federal judge in Washington state has ruled in a separate case, blocking the FDA from “altering the status quo...as it relates to the availability of Mifepristone.” Kacsmaryk’s ruling says the opposite. If I was a betting woman, I’d say we’re going to SCOTUS.

There are numerous anti-vax bills being considered during the current legislative session in Texas. The bill that public health advocates consider to be the most worrisome just passed the Senate & will now go to the House for consideration: star-telegram.com/news/local/cro…

Dexter Barry, 54, was arrested after an argument w/his neighbor. He told the Jacksonville Sheriff's officer 7 times that he took daily anti-rejection meds for his heart transplant. Barry told his son he never got his meds while in JSO's jail. He died. jaxtrib.org/2023/05/23/i-c…

A bit over a year ago Mariana Rivas and I talked to stylists, barbers and those who experience microaggressions and discrimination based on their natural hair about the CROWN Act. Over the weekend it was signed into law. star-telegram.com/news/local/cro…