Emily Albracht / Todd Wiseman
Welcome to the 85th Legislature (podcast)

On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Evan, Ross and Aman about the start of the 85th Texas Legislature: the Speaker’s race, a smaller-than-usual budget and the lieutenant governor’s priorities.

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Emily Ramshaw was the editor-in-chief of The Texas Tribune from 2016 to 2020. During her tenure, the Tribune — billed “one of the nonprofit news sector’s runaway success stories” — won a Peabody...

Todd Wiseman was the senior editor for video and multimedia at The Texas Tribune, where he worked from 2010 to 2023. Todd previously worked at the Austin School of Film and Synthetic Pictures and interned...