At The Texas Tribune Festival, Health and Human Services Commissioner Kyle Janek made a startling suggestion: that the Census Bureau’s projection that a quarter of Texans are uninsured is inflated.
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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Liveblog: Speaker Straus at the Texas Tribune Festival
We’re liveblogging this weekend from The Texas Tribune Festival, and from this special morning session with Texas House Speaker Joe Straus.
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Health Care Debate is Front and Center in SD-10
For a race that encapsulates Texas’ raging health care debate, look no further than Senate District 10 in Fort Worth — the matchup between incumbent Democrat Wendy Davis and her challenger, Republican state Rep. Mark Shelton.
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Castro Roasts Himself — “El Presidente” — in Comedy Sketch
On the heels of Julián Castro’s Democratic National Convention keynote comes this comedy sketch the San Antonio mayor starred in for the city’s 2012 Gridiron show. Look for cameos from Siri and Eva Longoria.
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Higher Education
A&M, UT Courting South Texas for Medical School
After years of working to bring a medical school to South Texas, some of the region’s leaders are relishing in their current scenario: being courted by two university systems.
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In Pitch to Young Voters, Longoria Recalls Texas Upbringing
Two Latina Texans — actress Eva Longoria and College Democrats President Alejandra Salinas — graced the Democratic National Convention stage on Thursday night with messages that seemed targeted at young voters.
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Jimmy Fallon Spoofs Look-alike Julián Castro’s DNC Keynote
It didn’t take long for the Twitter-sphere to decide that Julián Castro, the keynote at Tuesday night’s Democratic National Convention, had a look-alike other than his identical twin: comedian Jimmy Fallon. Fallon was more than happy to play along.
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Joaquin Castro Charges Up Texas Delegates at DNC
A day and a half after San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro’s rousing keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention, his congressional hopeful brother, Joaquin Castro, made an unscheduled appearance before the Texas delegation.
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For Texas Democrats, a Fundraising Tug-of-War
Should Texas Democrats try to turn the state blue from the inside out or the outside in? That’s the strategic question behind the money tug-of-war between the state party and the national candidates who count on Texas to fill their campaign coffers.
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Texas DREAM Activist is DNC’s First Undocumented Speaker
Benita Veliz, a San Antonio 27-year-old whose parents brought her into the country on a short-term tourist visa nearly two decades years ago, became the first undocumented person to address a national convention on Wednesday night.
