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AUSTIN - Governor Abbott’s office today approved a request by the Office of the Attorney General to temporarily suspend a limited number of open meeting laws in response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) disaster. This action will allow governmental bodies to conduct meetings by telephone or video conference to advance the public health goal of limiting faceto-face meetings (also called “social distancing”) to slow the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19).

Editor’s note: We were so happy to announce in the Wednesday Mexia News that the Limestone County Fair Association had figured out a way to have the fair. Headline: THE SHOW MUST GO ON! Now, they have canceled the event. We know they tried hard to keep it going. We at the Mexia News will make every effort to acquire exhibitor/project photos and publish them in a section.

AUSTIN — Incumbent President Donald J. Trump, who received 94% of the vote in the Lone Star State’s Republican primary election, and former Vice President Joe Biden, who received 34.5 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary, were their parties’ top vote-getters on March 3, Super Tuesday.