For an at-large seat of the Austin Independent School District Board of Trustees, Fernando Lucas de Urioste is the victor, defeating Lindsey Stringer.

The only other race in Travis County was for mayor of Manor. Christopher Harvey bested Tricia Campbell in that contest.

20,456 voters took part in the runoff, 3.6% of the county's 568,338 registered voters... 🟪 (LINK TO FULL STORY)

➡️ Bastrop Commissioners request Foreign Trade Zone tax exemptions for SpaceX (Community Impact)

Bastrop County’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp, or SpaceX, is on its way to qualifying for tax exemptions.

Following approval from the commissioner's court at a Dec. 9 meeting, Bastrop County Judge Gregory Klaus sent a letter of support to the Foreign Trade Zones of Central Texas to encourage officials to grant SpaceX an FTZ designation.

Ken Paxton sues New York doctor accused of prescribing abortion pills to Texas woman (Texas Tribune)

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit accusing a New York doctor of prescribing abortion drugs to a Texas resident in violation of state law.

This lawsuit is the first attempt to test what happens when state abortion laws are at odds with each other. New York has a shield law that protects providers from out-of-state investigations and prosecutions, which has served as implicit permission for a network of doctors to mail abortion pills into states that have banned the procedure.

Texas has vowed to pursue these cases regardless of those laws, and legal experts are divided on where the courts may land on this issue, which involves extraterritoriality, interstate commerce and other thorny legal questions last meaningfully addressed before the Civil War.

“Regardless of what the courts in Texas do, the real question is whether the courts in New York recognize it," said Greer Donley, University of Pittsburgh professor who studies these kinds of laws… 🟪 (LINK TO FULL STORY)

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