Ahead of his Thursday speech before the Conservative Political Action Conference, Gov. Rick Perry has sent a letter to members of Texas’ congressional delegation asking them to fight for flexibility for the state’s Medicaid program.
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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Riddle’s Facebook Post Angers Breast-Feeding Moms
A Facebook update state Rep. Debbie Riddle, R-Tomball, posted on Tuesday suggesting that mothers should be “modest” while breast-feeding their babies in public has nearly 1,000 comments — most of them outraged.
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Beyoncé Music Removed From Bush Video
The video released Wednesday announcing George P. Bush’s run for Texas land commissioner originally featured music from Beyoncé, a prominent supporter of President Obama’s. As of Thursday morning, that music was gone.
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Health care
Blue Cross Launches Statewide Campaign for Insurance Exchange
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, the state’s largest health insurance provider, is launching a campaign aimed at getting Texans enrolled in health plans through an online marketplace created by federal health reform.
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Twin in the Background Takes Center Stage
In the two months since Joaquin Castro was sworn into Congress, he has been getting even more attention than his identical twin, Julián Castro, the San Antonio mayor who gave the keynote at the Democratic National Convention.
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Health care
Lawmakers Seeing Possibilities on Medicaid Expansion
News that the federal government has negotiated with Arkansas to allow that state to use billions of dollars in Medicaid funds to buy private health insurance for the state’s poorest residents has some Texas Republicans intrigued.
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Perry’s Chief of Staff Returning to Old Job
Ann Bishop, Gov. Rick Perry’s newly hired chief of staff, is returning to her former job heading the state’s Employees Retirement System, the governor’s office confirmed on Wednesday.
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Ted Cruz: The TT Interview
Ted Cruz has only been Texas’ junior U.S. senator for two months, but he has wasted no time propelling himself into national headlines. On Tuesday, the Tribune sat down with Cruz in Washington to talk about the early days of his new gig.
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For Cornyn, Right Turn Could Be Defensive Play
Political observers say U.S. Sen. John Cornyn has shifted perceptibly right since Tea Party darling Ted Cruz joined him in the Senate. If he’s doing it because he’s worried about being “Dewhursted,” they suggest he has little to worry about.
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Perry Stands Firm on Rejecting Medicaid Expansion
If the pressure to expand Medicaid is getting to Gov. Rick Perry — now seven Republican governors, including his friend Rick Scott in Florida, support accepting federal dollars to cover poor adults — he’s not letting on.
