On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Patrick, Abby and Jay about the noticeable absence of the “bathroom bill” on the 2018 primary trail, the hottest congressional races, and a particularly timely campaign contribution received by Land Commissioner George P. Bush.
Todd Wiseman
Todd Wiseman was the senior editor for video and multimedia at The Texas Tribune, where he worked from 2010 to 2023. Todd previously worked at the Austin School of Film and Synthetic Pictures and interned for director Richard Linklater. At The Texas Tribune, Todd helped develop the “Stump Interrupted” series, which won a national Edward R. Murrow award. He also co-produced the award-winning documentary “Beyond The Wall.” A Fort Worth native, he graduated from the University of Southern California with a dual degree in film and English and is based in Austin.
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Republicans vs. Republicans and O’Rourke’s fundraising haul (podcast)
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Evan, Ross and Patrick about the Republican infighting this primary season and Beto O’Rourke closing the fundraising gap in his race to unseat U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz.
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George P. Bush and Harvey relief, AFL-CIO’s Beto O’Rourke snub (podcast)
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Evan, Patrick and Edgar about Land Commissioner George P. Bush walking back statements on Hurricane Harvey relief and the Rainy Day Fund, and the Texas AFL-CIO’s decision not to endorse Beto O’Rourke over a convention the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate missed.
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Maternal mortality, Texas’ special ed crisis (podcast)
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Marissa, Aliyya and Patrick about the state’s abysmal maternal mortality rate, its crisis in special education, and Gov. Greg Abbott’s beef with a Houston state legislator.
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Texas Elections 2018
A candidate’s explosive past, a transportation commissioner’s multiple hats and #MeToo at the Texas Capitol (podcast)
On this week’s TribCast, Patrick talks to Alexa, Jay and Ross about a state House candidate’s pipe bomb-making history, a Texas transportation commissioner’s conflict of interest, the ongoing discussion about sexual harassment at the state Capitol and the Democratic gubernatorial primary.
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Castro’s PAC, an early Cruz poll (podcast)
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Evan, Patrick and Ross about Julian Castro’s new PAC and potential presidential ambitions — and a Ted Cruz poll showing him out in front of Beto O’Rourke.
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The top Texas tales of 2017 (podcast)
On the final TribCast of 2017, Emily talks to Alexa, Neena, Jay and Edgar about some of the Trib’s biggest stories of the year: the bathroom bill, Hurricane Harvey, the TABC scandal and our series on child sex trafficking.
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Drama at the Facilities Commission, Farenthold off the GOP ballot, McRaven departing UT System (podcast)
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Evan, Ross, Jay and Patrick about Harvey Hilderbran’s troubled tenure at the Texas Facilities Commission, the Texas GOP’s efforts to keep Blake Farenthold off the 2018 ballot and Chancellor Bill McRaven’s decision to leave the UT System.
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The Taking
How the border fence cut through one Brownsville neighborhood (video)
An investigation by The Texas Tribune and ProPublica revealed that landowners were paid unevenly for similar plots of land when the federal government began taking property to build a border fence in the Rio Grande Valley. Hear the stories of a few of those landowners.
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An Alabama Senate shake-up, a Bush-Patterson faceoff and a border land grab project (podcast)
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Evan, Patrick, Kiah and former (and aspiring) Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson about Roy Moore’s defeat in Alabama, Patterson’s attempt to unseat George P. Bush and a soon-to-land reporting project called “The Taking.”
