On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks with Evan, Ross and Jim about the ongoing drama over hidden cameras in the Lege, negotiations on a tax cut deal, and the ag commissioner’s effort to return deep fryers and soda machines to public schools.
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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TribCast: Jade Helm 15 and Secret Capitol Videos
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks with Evan, Ross and Patrick about a group secretly recording lawmakers in the Capitol, the flap over Gov. Greg Abbott’s response to a U.S. military exercise and this profile of state Rep. Jonathan Stickland.
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TribCast: Abortion Bills, Tax Cut Drama and Voter ID
On this week’s TribCast, Emily chats with Ross, Aman and Alexa about a resurgence of anti-abortion legislation, the House-Senate fight over tax cuts and the voter ID courtroom battle.
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TribCast: Godless Pre-K, House v. Senate v. Abbott
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks with Evan, Ross and Jay about pre-K reform drama, the House’s resident dissenter, inter-chamber squabbles and Gov. Greg Abbott’s role in all of it.
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TribCast: Open Carry, State Spending and Hillary’s Texas
In this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Evan, Ross and Morgan about the gun battle that wasn’t, the budget negotiations to come, a “non-voucher” school choice pitch and the reasons why Hillary Clinton needs Texas.
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TribCast: In-State Tuition and Bathroom Bills
In this week’s TribCast Emily talks with Evan, Julián and Alexa about the fight over in-state tuition for kids of undocumented immigrants, the San Antonio mayoral race and bills aimed at transgender Texans’ use of public bathrooms.
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TribCast: Budget Bromance, Wallace Hall and Abbott’s “Strike Force”
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks with Evan, Ross and Matthew about the abstinence fight in the House’s overnight budget debate, a grand jury’s opinions on UT Regent Wallace Hall and whether the state’s health commissioner will keep his job.
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TribCast: Cruz’s Big Reveal and Budget Bickering
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks with Evan, Jay and Aman about Ted Cruz’s presidential announcement, the differences between the House and Senate budgets and the Trib’s major collaboration with the Houston Chronicle, “Blood Lessons.”
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T-Squared: Listen Up
We’ve launched a crowdfunding campaign to turn our in-person events into podcasts, and to launch a TribCast spinoff on the 2016 presidential race from a home state perspective.
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TribCast: Gun Bills and Texans Shooting for the White House
In this week’s TribCast, Emily talks with Evan, Ross and Jay about the presidential ambitions of Jeb Bush and Rand Paul, the gun bills moving in the Legislature and the fiscal needs of former lawmakers now at the helm of state agencies.
