📰 NEWS AROUND TEXAS 📰
TEA transition • Legislature speaker bid • Loop 567 tonight 👇
📅 November 6th, 2026AD
⭐ TEXAS’ DAILY FRONT PAGE — THE STORIES MOVING THE LONE STAR STATE ⭐
📋 TODAY’S TOP 5
1. 🏫 Team seeks new TEA chief
2. 🏛️ Texas Legislature race
3. 🚧 Loop 567 closes tonight
4. 🏁 Grand Prix starts Saturday
5. ⚖️ Immigration changes face limits
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🏫 TEAM SEEKS NEW TEA COMMISSIONER
Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa said Thursday her team is actively interviewing candidates to replace Texas Education Agency Commissioner Mike Morath, according to The Texas Tribune.
Her transition team includes executive director Joe Madden and members Ernest Bailes, a Republican, and Ryan Pollock. Hinojosa pledged a bipartisan administration, the Tribune reported.
KSAT reports she also wants to review the school voucher program, which serves more than 110,000 Texas students, and end state school takeovers.
Hinojosa is set to take office in January 2027. Republicans still control the state Senate.
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🏛️ THOMPSON LEADS HOUSE SPEAKER RACE
Rep. Senfronia Thompson of Houston held a Capitol news conference Friday afternoon on her bid for Texas Legislature speaker, according to KVUE and CW39.
Rep. Eddie Morales Jr. of Eagle Pass dropped his candidacy Friday morning and endorsed Thompson, CW39 reported, leaving her the only Democrat publicly seeking the gavel.
Winning the speakership takes 76 votes. The Texas Tribune puts the possible Democratic majority at 83–67 or 84–66.
Texas has never had a woman serve as House speaker, according to the Tribune.
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🚧 LOOP 567 CLOSES TONIGHT NEAR AIRPORT
Loop 567 between FM 4 and Highway 377 near Granbury Regional Airport will close in both directions from 6 p.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Saturday for film production, the City of Granbury says.
Friday’s single-lane closures run from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Another round of single-lane closures is scheduled Saturday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Granbury Police Department officers will assist with traffic control. The city also warns that nearby residents may hear loud production noises.
Check your route before heading toward the airport segment tonight.
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🏁 FREE GRAND PRIX STARTS SATURDAY
The Granbury Grand Prix runs Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 7–8, on a temporary race circuit around the Historic Granbury Square. Admission is free, according to Visit Granbury.
The event lists karts, off-road bikes, scooters, mountain bikes and unicycles, along with a Vendor Village and Expo Zone and a Pit Stop Food Zone.
Plan around street closures: The City of Granbury says Crockett Street and Bridge Street on the Historic Square are closed from 12:01 a.m. Friday through 10 p.m. Sunday for events.
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⚖️ IMMIGRATION CHANGES FACE LEGAL LIMITS
Gina Hinojosa and Nathan Johnson criticized Gov. Greg Abbott’s immigration policies, but changing course could take time, The Texas Tribune reports. They will be the next governor and attorney general.
Abbott’s approach included billions in spending on National Guard deployments, migrant arrests and border barriers.
State laws, federal partnerships and court rulings could limit the incoming officials’ changes.
The Texas Immigration Law Council told the Tribune a governor cannot rewrite federal immigration law, though Texas can make different choices about state resources.
Neither Hinojosa nor Johnson committed during the campaign to fully dismantling the enforcement system, the Tribune reports.
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🌤️ HOOD COUNTY WEATHER WATCH
🌡️ CURRENT: Observed 2:15 p.m., Granbury airport (KGDJ): scattered clouds, 72°
☀️ Forecast (NWS Fort Worth): Partly sunny this afternoon, high near 69°.
🌙 Tonight: Mostly cloudy, low around 51°.
📅 3-DAY OUTLOOK
Saturday: partly sunny, 67°/50°
Sunday: partly sunny, 68°/52°
Monday: partly sunny, 71°/54°
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