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Filing ends next Friday, Feb. 12, in the May 1 city council, and hospital and school board elections. There are eight open seats up for grabs this year. Incumbents have already begun announcing their intentions, but no new candidates have filed, to date.

Seventy Texas CVS pharmacies will roll out COVID-19 vaccinations starting Feb. 11, including locations in Amarillo and Lubbock. Other participating communities include Abilene, Beaumont, Brownsville, El Paso, Houston, Laredo, Midland, Plano, San Antonio, and Waco according to a news release from CVS Health, Tuesday.

AUSTIN—The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) last month approved the 2021 Regional Water Plans, which will form the basis of the 2022 State Water Plan. The regional water plans were developed by the state’s 16 regional water-planning groups to identify strategies and projects to meet the state’s future water needs during a repeat of drought of record conditions in the next 50 years.

The rate of COVID-19 vaccine administration is slowly increasing in Texas as we enter the second full month of shots going into arms. The Texas Department of State Health Services last weekend reported that about 1.6 million Texans—overwhelmingly frontline health workers, people over 65, or those with chronic health conditions—have received the first dose. Just over 400,000 are fully-vaccinated. The state has received 3.16 million doses so far; nearly half remain to be administered. Texas ranks near the bottom in percapita doses administered when compared to other states, according to the Centers for Disease Control.