/ The Texas Newsroom is a collaboration between public media stations across the state. They have covered various aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic, pointed out injustices and remembered lives lost. Here is a collection of the best stories from 2020. From KUT in Austin This Austinite Is Still Planting Flags In His Yard For Every Texan Who’s Died From COVID-19 Michael Minasi Shane Reilly has turned his front yard into a memorial for Texans who have lost their lives to COVID-19. Shane Reilly is an artist whose son is immunocompromised. At the start of the pandemic, he was upset to see people not wearing masks and seeming not to take the virus seriously. So he began to plant a flag in his front yard for every person who died of COVID-19, turning it into a stark reminder of the toll the virus has taken and a memorial to those who were lost.