What started as an effort by struggling small-business owners known as â51-percentersâ to safely reopen under government-ordered coronavirus shutdowns has grown into a unified movement to take on the state agency that regulates the alcoholic beverage industry in...
As Texasâ small-business owners remain frustrated by Gov. Greg Abbottâs coronavirus closures and suffer under his arbitrary rules for reopening, a hard-hit group of businesses known as â51-percentersâ say the governorâs unilateral shutdown orders are killing them....