The 88th Texas Legislature has set a record for the number of bills filed in a single session — 9,114 by the March 10 deadline. Of those, 1,086 were filed on the last day. Needless to say, your Texas Press Association legislative team is swamped as we sift through the pile and identify bills that would affect public notices in newspapers.

2023 Texas Press Association Convention & Trade Show events kick off with the Robert Burns Memorial Golf Classic at 9 a.m. Thursday, June 1, at the Forest Creek Golf Club in Round Rock.

The convention continues through Saturday, June 3, at Kalahari Resort and Conventions in Round Rock.

AUSTIN — When Ben Barnes became speaker of the Texas House early in his political career, one of his challenges was to make accommodations for accredited members of the Capitol press corps to cover the Legislature. It was not a small task.

Guest opinion by JOHN C. MORITZ, Corpus Christi Caller-Times, USA Today Network - Texas

KERRVILLE – Former Kerrville Daily Times Advertising Director Jennifer McCullough has returned to the newspaper as publisher.

She succeeded Carlina Villalpando Daugherty, who left to relocate to Abilene with her husband, Dr. Stephen Daugherty.

New hires, promotions and other staff changes at Texas newspapers as reported in the March edition of the Texas Press Messenger

JOHN R. MOSES, Corpus Christi Caller-Times

Obituaries published in the March 2023 edition the Texas Press Messenger.

Teresa Lavonne Hair Phillips