MANZIEL PONDERS HIS FUTURE TROUBLED FORMER A&M HEISMAN WINNER
WEDNESDAYAUGUST 9, 2017
FREE
WANTS TO REMAIN IN SPORTS, A7
DELIVERED EVERY SATURDAY
TO 4,000 HOMES
A HEARST PUBLICATION
ON THE WEB: THEZAPATATIMES.COM
AUSTIN, TEXAS
Mark White to lie at state Capitol Funeral for ex-Democratic governor open to members of the public By Chuck Lindell COX N EWSPAPE RS
AUSTIN, Texas — Former Gov. Mark White, who died Saturday in Houston, will lie in state Thursday afternoon in the Capitol Rotunda so members of the public can pay their respects to one of the last Demo-
TEXAS’ SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE SESSION
‘Bathroom bill’ in jeopardy of sinking
crats to lead Texas. Announcing the arrangements on behalf of White’s family, Gov. Greg Abbott White said his predecessor’s funeral will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at
Second Baptist Church in Houston. Afterward, White’s body will be brought to Austin and will lie in state in the Rotunda — where his portrait has been draped in black — from noon until 3 p.m. Thursday. White will be buried in the Texas State Cemetery in East Austin
during a ceremony for members of his family, Abbott said. Texas and U.S. flags will remain at half-staff until sunset Thursday. White, one of the last leaders of the Democratic Party’s conservative wing, served as attorney general for four years beginning in 1979, when he
clashed frequently and publicly with Republican Gov. Bill Clements, setting up a rivalry that defined Texas politics through the 1980s. White took on Clements in the 1982 elections, defeating the Republican despite being vastly outspent. His time in the GovWhite continues on A12
CLIMATE CHANGE
SCIENTISTS CONTRADICT TRUMP’S CLIMATE CLAIMS
Activists, companies continue protesting By David Montgomery N EW YORK T I ME S NEWS SERVICE
AUSTIN, Texas — With little more than a week left in Texas’ 30-day special legislative session, a barrage of corporate advertising and activism is threatening to sink legislation restricting transgender bathroom use that has been a flash point in the state’s culture wars. Social conservatives and the state’s powerful lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick, have backed the effort. Gay rights groups, business groups and the House speaker, Joe Straus, one of the few powerful moderate voices in the Texas Legislature, have opposed it. But after the state Senate, where Patrick presides, passed a bill, a narrower one is showing few signs of life in the 150-member House. The effort is now focused on the House version, but state Rep. Jonathan Stickland, one of the bill’s 46 co-authors and a member of the Tea Partybacked Freedom Caucus, said he was pessimistic about its chances of being allowed to advance to a vote. “I think the Straus team has already decided that they are not going to let it out,” said Stickland, who, like other members of the staunchly conservative caucus, persistently defies the speaker’s leadership. “This is clearly part of a national Bill continues on A12
Noah Berger / AP
In this 2016 file photo, vintage cars line a property after the Loma fire burned through Loma Chiquita Road near Morgan Hill, California. As President Donald Trump touts new oil pipelines and pledges to revive the nations struggling coal mines, federal scientists are warning that burning fossil fuels is already driving a steep increase in the United States of heat waves, droughts and floods.
President declares change in weather is a ‘hoax’ By Michael Biesecker and Seth Borenstein ASSOCIATED PRE SS
WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump touts new oil pipelines and pledges to revive the nation’s struggling coal mines, federal scientists are warning that burning fossil fuels is already driving a steep increase in the United States of heat waves, droughts and floods. It is the latest example of collisions between Trump’s environmental policies and the facts presented by his government’s experts. Contradicting Trump’s claims that climate change is a
“hoax,” the draft report representing the consensus of 13 federal agencies concludes that the evidence global warming is being driven by human activities is “unambiguous.” That directly undercuts statements by Trump and his Cabinet casting doubt on whether the warming observed around the globe is being primarily driven by man-made carbon pollution. “There are no alternative explanations, and no natural cycles are found in the observational record that can explain the observed changes in climate,” says the report, citing thousands of peer-reviewed Climate continues on A5
Ross D. Franklin / AP
In this June 20 file photo, a local temperature sign reads 120-degrees as temperatures climb to near-record highs in Phoenix.