Some recent media reports have raised concerns that the state’s new voter ID law could disenfranchise people who have legally changed their names. But election officials say protocols are in place for cases in which the name on a person’s ID is not identical to his or her legal name.
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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Health care
MD Anderson Enlists IBM Supercomputer to Fight Cancer
Representatives from the MD Anderson Cancer Center and IBM on Friday announced their collaboration on a project that uses a supercomputer to cull big data to help physicians recommend treatments for cancer patients.
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Politics
Tommy Merritt to Run for Ag Commissioner as a Republican
At the end of a week of shakeups in the race for agriculture commissioner, former state Rep. Tommy Merritt announced he will join the race for the Republican nomination.
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Public Education
Trying to Keep Religion Out of Charter Classrooms
Eleanor Kolitz Hebrew Language Academy is the first Texas charter to offer Hebrew and one of two new charters to open in a Jewish center.
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Energy
Proposed Protections for Cuckoo Cause Concern
Some state officials and farmers and ranchers in West Texas worry that efforts to provide federal protection for the yellow-billed cuckoo will hurt their industry.
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Patterson Accuses Patrick of Lying in New Ad
The lieutenant governor’s race heated up Monday when Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson accused state Sen. Dan Patrick of lying about Patterson’s stance on in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants.
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Economy
Texas Incentives Lure Video Game Companies
Texas is ranked second in the nation in video game employment. And Texas’ unusually generous incentive arrangements for video gaming companies are at least part of the reason.
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Energy
Zebra Mussels Threaten Central Texas Reservoirs
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has confirmed the presence of invasive zebra mussels in Belton Lake, and experts worry the species could jeopardize the water supply in Central Texas towns.
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Energy
Head of LCRA Announces Resignation
Becky Motal, general manager of the Lower Colorado River Authority, announced Wednesday that she will retire at the end of this year.
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AG’s Office Unlikely to Sue Over San Antonio Ordinance
A spokesman for the Texas attorney general’s office, citing a wording change in San Antonio’s recently passed nondiscrimination ordinance, said the state is unlikely to file suit over the ordinance.