Emily Albracht / Todd Wiseman
New Yorker on Texas, TABC troubles, “perverted little tarts” (podcast)

On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Patrick, Jay and Jim about Speaker Joe Straus’ “bathroom bill” comments in the New Yorker, the TABC’s war with Spec’s and a top lobbyist’s eight-year-old comments on young women drinking at Baylor.

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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...