💵 Houston City Council members approved spending $1.7 million to defend the city and former Police Chief Art Acevedo in a lawsuit over 2019's botched Harding Street raid. (Houston Chronicle)
🗣 Jill Biden invited Kate Cox, a Texas mother forced to seek an emergency abortion outside the state, to the State of the Union. (Axios)
🤝 The staff of the Texas Tribune is unionizing. (Poynter)