It took years of bipartisan efforts for the Women’s Health Program to even begin. Today, it is the subject of a bitter political divide. No one should be surprised.
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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State Government
Updated: Mentally Ill Man Faces Arson Charge in Attack on Davis’ Office
A mentally unstable man has been charged with throwing a bag filled with six Molotov cocktails at the door of the Fort Worth office of state Sen. Wendy Davis.
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Campaign Chatter: Sizing Up Who’s Looking Good
Now that the filing deadline has passed, the congressional and legislative candidates are scouting their field. Some are shoo-ins, others have a primary crowd and a few are seeking another chance at the Lege. Here’s who’s who.
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TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
Ramshaw on how much the state pays workers for unused vacation, Aguilar with the latest on voter ID, Tan and Dehn take a multimedia approach to the Women’s Health Program controversy, Hamilton on an outcomes-based higher ed funding model, Murphy’s new and improved election brackets, Root on how state money is being spent to attract sports events, Grissom with an update on Michael Morton’s wrongful conviction and Aaronson’s latest on Texas’ growing economy: The best of our best content from March 12 to March 16, 2012.
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Criminal Justice
Abbott Sues Feds Over Women’s Health Program
Attorney General Greg Abbott has filed yet another lawsuit against the federal government, this one, no surprise, over the Women’s Health Program.
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Health care
A States’ Rights Strategy
Gone are the deer-in-the-headlights “oops” moments, the campaign blooper reels. They’ve been replaced with the familiar Texas governor beating his drum against the federal government, this time on women’s health and voter fraud.
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Health care
Feds to Halt Funding for Women’s Health Program
Federal health officials announced Thursday what state leaders have predicted for weeks: that they are halting funding for Texas’ Women’s Health Program.
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Economy
State Spends Big to Pay Outgoing Workers for Unused Vacation Time
State agencies have paid fired or resigning state employees more than $500 million in unused vacation time over the last decade.
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Health care
Feds Won’t Renew Women’s Health Program
The federal government will not renew the Women’s Health Program, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in Houston on Friday.
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Updated: Super PAC Targeting Incumbents Gets First Win
A Super PAC aimed at knocking unpopular incumbents out of office — and funded largely by Texas donors — won its first race this week, upsetting a Republican primary in Ohio.
