In the 30 years since Christine Morton was murdered, her husband Michael Morton has been wrongfully convicted of killing her and fought for sweeping changes to state law. Look back at his case and the developments since his release.
Annie Daniel
Annie Daniel was a news apps developer at The Texas Tribune from 2014 to 2018, where she where she developed interactives, analyzed datasets and created graphics. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she studied both multimedia journalism and political science. Before moving to Texas, Annie interned at The Washington Post on their graphics team.
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Salaries Explorer Updates UT-Arlington, UTEP
We’ve updated the Tribune’s Government Salaries Explorer with fresh data for the University of Texas at Arlington, the University of Texas at El Paso and Tarrant County. We’ve also added Bexar County to the Salaries Explorer.
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Health care
Which Texas Schools Have the Highest Rates of Vaccine Exemptions?
The number of Texas students with non-medical exemptions to school immunization laws has soared statewide in the last decade. How does your school district fare? Check out our handy search tool to find out.
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Health care
Sharp Drop in Abortions Followed Restrictions
The number of drug-induced abortions in Texas plummeted in the first full year after the state’s strict 2013 abortion law took effect, according to statistics released Thursday by the Texas Department of State Health Services.
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Health care
Here Are the Texas Abortion Clinics That Have Closed Since 2013
Though the Supreme Court on Monday handed Texas abortion providers a major victory by striking down the state’s most stringent abortion restrictions, House Bill 2 leaves behind a trail of shuttered clinics. Take a look.
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Government Salaries Explorer Updates UT-Austin, Adds Bryan ISD
We’ve updated the Tribune’s Government Salaries Explorer with fresh data for The University of Texas at Austin, and we added a new school district — Bryan ISD.
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Politics
Texas Republicans in Congress Not United Behind Trump
Getting Texas Republicans in Congress to say whether they’re backing Donald Trump is a bit like pulling teeth. Luckily, The Texas Tribune’s got the skills of a dentist.
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MD Anderson, Katy ISD Updated in Government Salaries Explorer
We’ve updated the Tribune’s Government Salaries Explorer with new data for The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Katy ISD and Midwestern State University. College Station ISD and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center are new additions.
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Demographics
Texas Suburbs Among Fastest-Growing Cities
Big Texas cities continue to add the greatest number of people, but the action is in the suburbs when it comes to rates of growth. Led by Georgetown, Texas has four of the nation’s 10 fastest-growing cities.
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Take In a View of the New Texas Space Race
SpaceX recently achieved a milestone when it successfully landed an unmanned rocket on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean. Revisit our interactive project on the plans for commercial space flight in Texas, including SpaceX’s controversial facility in the southernmost part of the state.