{"id":233730,"date":"2026-04-03T17:01:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/233730\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T17:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:01:19","slug":"morning-briefing-texas-april-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/233730\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Briefing Texas April 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning, Texas. Here’s what you need to know today.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Your Weather Planner<\/p>\n

Wet Easter weekend ahead for Texas. It starts with a few scattered storms around North Texas Friday afternoon and evening. Widespread rain and storms will push across the state with a cold front Saturday. Sunday rain chances stay elevated for South Texas. Cooler air will rush in behind the front, just in time for Easter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Get your 7-day forecast:\u00a0Austin<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0San Antonio<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Dallas<\/a><\/p>\n

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Watch the latest news and more local stories from across the country.<\/p>\n

Around Texas\u00a0<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Family describes Texas’ school voucher program as ‘life-changing’ as application window closes<\/a><\/p>\n

More than 274,000 people applied for Texas\u2019 first-ever education savings account program before the March 31 deadline.<\/p>\n

For this first year, the state has about $1 billion to distribute and is expected to select only around 90,000 to 100,000 students.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Inspection finds dozens of violations of detention standards at a major immigration camp in Texas<\/a><\/p>\n

A recent inspection at the nation\u2019s\u00a0largest immigration detention facility<\/a>\u00a0found dozens of violations of national standards that potentially exposed detainees to excessive force, disease and other unsafe conditions.<\/p>\n

Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u2019s Office of Detention Oversight performed a congressionally mandated inspection over three days in February at Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas, according to a\u00a0report posted online<\/a>\u00a0by ICE this week.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Austin approves new regulations promoting front yard businesses<\/a><\/p>\n

The Austin City Council has passed a\u00a0resolution<\/a>\u00a0making it easier for residents to run businesses out of their homes.<\/p>\n

The resolution will allow business to be conducted from exterior portions of property, like front porches, front yards and dedicated stands. The resolution also adjusts standards to better support front-yard businesses in their use of structural alterations and signs.<\/p>\n

Around The Nation<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Trump says Pam Bondi, loyalist who oversaw Justice Department upheaval, out as attorney general<\/a><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Iran fires on Israel and Gulf neighbors as Trump claims threat from Tehran nearly eliminated<\/a><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0National Capital Planning Commission approves Trump ballroom plan after judge halts construction<\/a><\/p>\n

Deep in the Heart of Texas
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Interstate 35 under construction in San Antonio. (Spectrum News)<\/p>\n

San Antonio managing traffic well compared to other Texas metros, expert says<\/a><\/p>\n

The region including Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio, Greater Houston and Austin, a mega-region known as the Texas Triangle, is the epicenter of growth in the country, evident by the amount of people moving in and the $3 billion investment into the I-35 Northeast extension.<\/p>\n

\u201cCompared to Austin, compared to Houston, compared to Dallas, San Antonio is doing better from a congestion standpoint,\u201d said Brendon Wheeler, executive director of the Alamo Area Metropolitan Planning Organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning, Texas. Here’s what you need to know today.\u00a0 Your Weather Planner Wet Easter weekend ahead for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2160,30432,82,84,83,27,835],"class_list":{"0":"post-233730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-app-top-stories","9":"tag-hannah-maguire","10":"tag-san-antonio","11":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","12":"tag-san-antonio-news","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}