On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks with Evan, Jay and Aman about Ted Cruz’s presidential announcement, the differences between the House and Senate budgets and the Trib’s major collaboration with the Houston Chronicle, “Blood Lessons.”
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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Video: One-on-One Interview With Ted Cruz
Check out Texas Tribune political reporter Jay Root’s one-on-one interview in New York City with U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas’ junior senator and the nation’s first declared 2016 presidential candidate.
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Audio: Fiscal Hawk Sid Miller on His Need for Cash
Sid Miller voted for deep budget cuts as a member of the Texas House. But now he’s Texas agriculture commissioner, and he wants the Legislature to dramatically increase funding to his cash-strapped agency.
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TribCast: Gun Bills and Texans Shooting for the White House
In this week’s TribCast, Emily talks with Evan, Ross and Jay about the presidential ambitions of Jeb Bush and Rand Paul, the gun bills moving in the Legislature and the fiscal needs of former lawmakers now at the helm of state agencies.
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Economy
Budgetline: A TribCast Series on the Texas Budget
In the first episode of Budgetline, an occasional TribCast series on the Texas budget, Ross and Aman start where state officials started — with the revenue estimate. It sounds simple, but it’s a complicated stew of economics, politics and risky forecasting.
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TribCast: Former Fetuses, Presidential Perry, Undrinkable Water
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks with Ross, Neena and Patrick about Rep. Jonathan Stickland’s “Former Fetus” sign, Gov. Rick Perry’s presidential ambitions and the Trib’s Undrinkable water quality project.
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TribCast: Polling, Border Security and Tax Cuts
On this week’s TribCast — the first sans Reeve! — Emily talks with Ross, Julian and Jim about the UT/TT Poll, the border security battle in the Legislature and tax cut proposals facing state lawmakers.
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Demographics
Video: State Leaders Address Immigration Ruling
Here’s a video of Wednesday’s news conference with U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, Gov. Greg Abbott, Attorney General Ken Paxton and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who discussed a judge’s decision to halt President Obama’s immigration order.
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TribCast: State of the State and University Admissions
On Reeve’s final TribCast, he talks with Evan, Emily and Ross about the most recent election results, Gov. Greg Abbott’s first State of the State address, and a report on political influence on admissions at the University of Texas at Austin.
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TribCast: Expensive Chairs, New Badges and Vaccines
Reeve, Terri, Emily and Evan dive into the ongoing scandals at the state’s Health and Human Services Commission, including the purchase of $2,800 executive chairs and roughly 300 high-dollar badges. And they also discuss the politics of vaccines.
