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  • T-Squared: Good Night and Good on Us

    By Evan Smith

    This morning we learned that the Tribune won two national Edward R. Murrow Awards: for best use of video by a local news operation — for Elise Hu's Stump Interrupted series — and for best website. Yes, we're psyched. Full Story 

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  • Data App: Texas Population Estimates

    By Matt Stiles

    Texas now has about 24.8 million residents, an increase of 3.9 million, or almost 20 percent, since 2000, and trails only California in the proportion of its residents who identify themselves as Hispanic. We're also the third-youngest state, with a median age of 33; only Utah and Alabama have younger populations. These and other fun facts can be discovered in a new database application that helps explain and visualize how the makeup of Texas counties has changed since the last U.S. Census. Full Story 

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    Credit: Bob Daemmrich, Jacob Villanueva

  • The New ICE Age

    By Julián Aguilar

    The federal government could begin cracking down on employers who hire undocumented workers, according to a copy of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s new strategic plan obtained by The Texas Tribune. Full Story 

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  • Steve Munisteri: The TT Interview

    By Morgan Smith

    The state GOP’s new chair talked to the Tribune on Tuesday about the party’s fiscal condition, redistricting, fundraising across partisan aisles, how to unify with the Tea Party and the status of his relationship with his dethroned predecessor, Cathie Adams. Full Story 

    Steve Munisteri campaigning for Texas GOP chairman.
    Credit: Bob Daemmrich

  • The Press Conference Crashers

    By Elise Hu

    In our latest HuTube vlog post, we venture to a Team Perry press conference at Bill White's Austin headquarters. White's volunteers must have had some advance notice. They came armed with signs, chants — and a guy in a chicken suit — to shout over the governor's spokesman. Full Story 

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  • No More Valley Carve-Out?

    By Emily Ramshaw

    When Texas expanded its Medicaid managed care program in 2003 to cover more than urban centers, the Rio Grande Valley narrowly avoided being included. But as state leaders stare down a multibillion-dollar budget shortfall, they say it’s unlikely the Valley will make it through another session without being roped in. Full Story 

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    Credit: Caleb Bryant Miller

  • Forced to Fight, Continued

    By Emily Ramshaw, The Texas Tribune, and Terri Langford, Houston Chronicle

    Texas officials have halted the placement of foster care children at Daystar and have assigned the Houston-area residential treatment center a state monitor following revelations of a staff-instigated “fight club” incident two years ago and a new incident that has come to light this past week: a possible sexual assault of a girl living at the facility. Full Story 

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    Credit: Nick de la Torre / The Houston Chronicle

  • Farewell to "Keko"

    By Ivan Pierre Aguirre

    Sounds and photos from the funeral of Sergio Adrían Hernández Güereca, 15, in Ciudad Juárez. Güereca was shot and killed on June 7 by a U.S. Border Patrol agent on the banks of the Rio Grande near downtown El Paso. Full Story 

  • TribBlog: Texas v. the EPA, Round 2

    By Morgan Smith

    In the latest bout of the state's legal contretemps with the Environmental Protection Agency, Attorney General Greg Abbott announced today that Texas will challenge the federal agency's decision to disapprove its qualified facilities program. Full Story 

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    Credit: Bob Daemmrich

  • TribBlog: State Suspends Daystar Placements

    By Emily Ramshaw

    The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services has suspended all new placements of foster children at the Daystar Residential Treatment Center outside of Houston, following a Texas Tribune/Houston Chronicle investigation that revealed workers forced young girls to fight each other in return for snacks. Full Story 

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    Credit: Nick de la Torre / The Houston Chronicle

  • 2010: Carville Protege Joins Team White

    By Elise Hu

    Chad Clanton, a Waco-born Democratic consultant and well-known protege of James Carville, has joined the Bill White gubernatorial campaign to "work on a variety of projects ... on multiple media channels," says White spokeswoman Katy Bacon. Full Story 

    Chad Clanton in 2005.
    Credit: NY Times