On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Evan, Ross and Patrick about the fallout from a graphic nude picture of Congressman Joe Barton, the fired A&M football coach’s $10 million payout and the latest in campaign news.
Emily Ramshaw
Emily Ramshaw was the editor-in-chief of The Texas Tribune from 2016 to 2020. During her tenure, the Tribune — billed “one of the nonprofit news sector’s runaway success stories” — won a Peabody Award, several national Murrow Awards and top honors from the Online News Association.
Before joining the Tribune in 2010 as one of its founding reporters, Ramshaw spent six years at The Dallas Morning News, where she broke national stories about sexual abuse inside Texas’ youth lock-ups, reported from inside a West Texas polygamist compound and uncovered “fight clubs” inside state institutions for the disabled. The Texas APME named Ramshaw its 2008 star reporter of the year. In 2016, she was named to the board of the Pulitzer Prizes.
A native of Washington, D.C., and the product of two journalist parents, Ramshaw graduated from Northwestern University in 2003 with dual degrees in journalism and American history.
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Sexual harassment at the Capitol, Abbott takes on an incumbent (podcast)
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Alexa, Morgan and Ross about pervasive sexual harassment at the Texas Capitol and Gov. Abbott’s decision to endorse incumbent Rep. Sarah Davis’ opponent.
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A mass shooting in Texas, Dawnna Dukes’ Tribune interview, congressional retirements (podcast)
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Evan, Patrick and Jolie about the Sutherland Springs church shooting, state Rep. Dawnna Dukes’ live Texas Tribune interview and the series of Republican congressional retirements that are shaking up the field.
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Dawnna Dukes’ dropped charges, Enterprise Fund drama, a rent-to-own investigation (podcast)
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Ross, Jim and Shannon about the Travis County DA’s decision to drop charges against state Rep. Dawnna Dukes, Gov. Greg Abbott’s Enterprise Fund connection to a trouble drug company and the Trib’s investigation into the rent-to-own industry in Texas.
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Speaker Straus won’t run for re-election (podcast)
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Evan, Ross and Aman about House Speaker Joe Straus’ bombshell decision not to run for re-election, and what it means for the Texas Legislature.
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O’Rourke v. Cruz, Abbott’s Latino outreach, Confederate monuments (podcast)
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Evan, Ross and Patrick about the Beto O’Rourke-Ted Cruz matchup, Gov. Greg Abbott’s efforts to make inroads with Latino voters and what to do about Confederate monuments at the Capitol.
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In Harvey's Wake
T-Squared: Hurricane Harvey, in book form
Starting today, you can preorder “Harvey: Devastation, Courage and Recovery in the Eye of the Storm,” a chronological account of the hurricane — from early warnings that Houston was at serious risk to the heartbreaking aftermath.
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Gun politics, Rex Tillerson and the state’s health commission (podcast)
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Evan, Ross and Edgar about gun politics in Texas, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s Trump press conference and our investigation into unrest at the state’s health commission.
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TribFest recap, tapping the Rainy Day Fund (podcast)
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Evan, Ross and Patrick about the highlights from the Texas Tribune Festival (Speaker Straus! Cruz and Cornyn!) and the governor’s plans for Harvey relief and the Rainy Day Fund.
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The live Texas Tribune Festival TribCast
On this special live recording of the TribCast, Emily and Ross talk national politics and local control with New Yorker staff writer Larry Wright, Washington Post correspondent Karen Tumulty, San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg and Dallas Sen. Don Huffines.
