Posted By Sanford Nowlin on Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 1:23 PM Instagram / governorabbott
, a column of opinion and analysis. The Office of the Texas Governor has been a recent flurry of press releases. Among other things, Gov. Greg Abbott has promised to send Department of Public Safety troopers to Houston to combat road-rage shootings, and he’s trumpeted tech company Oracle’s relocation to the state. But with the exception of logistical announcements about the arrival of new vaccines and the reveal for a rapid testing pilot program only available in a handful of cities El Paso being the largest his office has been suspiciously silent about this winter’s terrible resurgence in COVID-19 cases.