In rural counties, recruiting doctors is the single biggest health care challenge. Twenty-seven counties have no primary care physicians.
No Country For Health Care, Part 4: Rural Recruitment
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Tom Barry interview
The Texas Tribune talks with Tom Barry, senior policy analyst at the Center for International Policy, about immigration detention centers on the border.
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Health care
The Prescription: A Small-Town Doc’s Take on Health Care Reform
As Congress wrestles with the fine print of massive health care legislation, doctors in Texas say both their practices and their patients will be affected. Nathan Bernier reports for KUT News from Athens, about three hours northeast of Austin, where a doctor reveals the unique challenges of providing care in a small town.
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Criminal Justice
Big Border Business
For the last year and a half, Tom Barry visited immigrant detention centers in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. Here’s what he found.
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Twitter Trouble
Visit any campaign web site and you’ll find social and new media tools being used to get the message out. Journalists are using some of those same tools, but the candidates they cover aren’t happy about it. Ben Philpott filed this report for KUT News and the Tribune.
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Health care
Rural Doctors in Their Own Words
Rural health care providers in West Texas talk about the unique challenges they face in treating their patients.
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Transportation
The Weekly TribCast: Episode 10
It’s the first TribCast of the new year. Evan, Ross, Elise and Ben discuss the finalized ballots for statewide races, whether the transportation issue will drive voters and the possibility of making this red state’s blue dot less blue.
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Transportation
HuTube: The KBH “Roads” Ad Check
An analysis of the claims in Team Kay’s latest television ad includes a true claim and a distortion, according to Dallas television station WFAA-TV.
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State Government
Ads Infinitum: Hutchison Releases “Hook’Em” Ad
A burnt-orange view of “Roads.”
