When he began exhibiting signs of schizophrenia, Keith Clayton’s family agonized over sending him to a state-run psychiatric hospital. Days after his arrival, the 55-year-old was dead — the victim of a restraint gone wrong.
Edgar Walters
Edgar Walters worked at the Tribune from 2013 to 2020, most recently covering health and human services. Before that, he had a political reporting fellowship with the Berliner Zeitung, a daily newspaper in Berlin. He is a graduate of the Plan II Honors Program at the University of Texas at Austin, where he worked as an editor for The Daily Texan. When not in the newsroom or at the Capitol, he could be found on the volleyball court, standing 6 feet, 7 inches tall.
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Florida Cases Won’t Change Texas Zika Prevention Strategy
News that four people in South Florida likely caught the Zika virus from mosquito bites presented a new milestone but in Texas, health officials aren’t sounding new alarms.
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Texas Supreme Court Halts Children’s Therapy Cuts
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday delivered a temporary, last-minute victory to the families of children with disabilities who want to stop sweeping budget cuts to a state-funded children’s therapy program.
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Appeals Court Tells Texas Foster Care Reforms Must Continue
Texas must continue drafting court-ordered plans to fix its broken foster care system, according to a new order from the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Pay Caseworkers and Fosters More, Chief Says
In a wide-ranging interview, Hank Whitman, the new commissioner overseeing Child Protective Services, explains how he thinks he can turn around a child welfare agency crippled by low morale, high turnover and a spate of high-profile child deaths.
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More Lawmakers Call on Texas to Postpone Therapy Cuts
With two weeks to go before Texas is set to slash a program’s funding that pays for therapy services for children with disabilities, therapy providers are announcing new support from state lawmakers to postpone the cuts.
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Under Scrutiny, Abbott Appointee Resigns from Acupuncture Board
After questions about his own medical practice came to public attention, a member of one of Texas’ medical licensing boards has resigned from the position Gov. Greg Abbott appointed him to last month.
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After Supreme Court Ruling, What’s Next for Abortion in Texas?
After the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that found a Texas anti-abortion law unconstitutional, state lawmakers here are already plotting a course for new rules that could limit the practice of abortion.
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Beto O’Rourke Rides to Prominence Via a Livestream
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Texas Democrats Ask Feds to Intervene on Therapy Cuts
Three weeks before Texas officials plan to slash funding for a program that pays for speech, physical and occupational therapy for children with disabilities, Democrats in the Texas House are asking the Obama administration to intervene.
