Writer Ellen Sweets says Austin’s “black problem” — the fact that it’s the only fast-growing large city in the U.S. that’s losing African-American residents — is rooted not in race but in the dissipation of a working class.
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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New in TribTalk: Susan Griffin on Challenges to AP U.S. History
Susan Griffin, executive director of the National Council for the Social Studies, says Texas-based critics arguing that changes to AP U.S. history amount to historical revisionism are off the mark.
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T-Squared: Goodbyes, Promotions and New Hires
We’ll soon have a new managing editor, a new news editor, a new demographics reporter and a new night editor — maybe you?
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Battleground Texas Drops Web Ad for Motley in HD-105
Battleground Texas on Thursday released a web video on behalf of Democrat Susan Motley, a lawyer and mother who is up against Rodney Anderson in Grand Prairie’s House District 105.
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Series: Falling Behind
Check out Falling Behind, our 10-part series on the flip side of state leaders’ aggressive pursuit of the “Texas Miracle” — from water woes and backed up traffic to missed opportunities in public education and climate change.
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In Web Ad, Abbott Says Davis Will Try to Raise Taxes
In a new web ad, Republican gubernatorial hopeful Greg Abbott attacks his Democratic opponent Wendy Davis over what his campaign alleges is her “willingness to raise taxes.”
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Politics
Annie’s List Executive Director Killed in Car Crash
Grace Garcia, the executive director of the Democratic women-in-politics group Annie’s List, was killed in a car accident in Waxahachie on Monday, the organization said early Tuesday morning.
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T-Squared: Trib, Oyez to Launch Online Courts Archive
We’re preparing to roll out an online archive for Texas’ two highest courts in partnership with Oyez — a free law project at the IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law — and the Knight Foundation.
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Abbott Parodies Davis in Star Wars-Themed Ad
Republican gubernatorial hopeful Greg Abbott has released a new Star Wars-themed ad attacking his Democratic opponent, state Sen. Wendy Davis, over her fundraising efforts in Hollywood.
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Family Says Political Adviser’s Condition Improving
Jay Kimbrough, a longtime adviser to Gov. Rick Perry and the point man for state agency crises through two Republican administrations, remains in serious condition following a Friday motorcycle accident.
