Allison Castle, the governor’s communications director, is leaving for a job at the Texas Department of Insurance.
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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Criminal Justice
DPS Expands Surcharge Relief for the Poor
A new incentive program will allow some low-income drivers to pay reduced surcharges under the Driver Responsibility Program. Thousands of Texans’ licenses have been suspended as a result of the controversial program.
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Health care
Rural Hospitals Wary of Proposed Medicare Cuts
Small-town hospitals are worried that a federal recommendation to cut costs by re-evaluating which rural hospitals receive higher Medicare reimbursements could threaten their financial security — and even prompt them to shut their doors.
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Politics
Democratic Lawmakers Ask Texas Military Forces to Process Same-Sex Benefits
UPDATED: Sixteen Democratic state lawmakers have called on the Texas Military Forces to process veteran benefits claims for same-sex spouses while it awaits an opinion from Attorney General Greg Abbott.