On this week’s TribCast, Alexa talks to Ross, Emma and Matthew about the governor’s move to pull back on the enforcement of his executive orders related to the coronavirus pandemic and a GOP congressional hopeful’s misleading messaging on voting by mail.
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TribCast is a weekly political podcast, hosted by Matthew Watkins and Eleanor Klibanoff, and featuring a rotating cast of editors, reporters and other guests. The TribCast is returning as a limited-run series during the 2025 legislative session.
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TribCast: The governor’s quicker-than-expected move to further reopen Texas
On this week’s TribCast, Alexa talks to Matthew, Emma and Ross about the governor’s move to reopen more businesses in Texas more quickly than expected and the implications of those reopenings.
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TribCast: How Texas plans to reopen businesses during the coronavirus pandemic
On this week’s TribCast, Alexa talks to Cassi, Matthew and Ross about the phased reopening of Texas businesses and what that could mean for Texans who must return to work in a pandemic.
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TribCast: Reopening the economy, testing in rural Texas and election woes
On this week’s TribCast, Alexa talks to Evan, Matthew and Emma about the slow efforts to reopen the Texas economy, a testing quandary in rural Texas and election administrators’ woes over the upcoming elections.
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TribCast: Forecasting what’s next with coronavirus and the 2021 legislative session
On this week’s TribCast, Alexa talks to Matthew, Cassi and Ross about what’s coming up in the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, and the group does some forecasting for what the public health emergency could mean for the 2021 legislative session.
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TribCast: Texas health care workers take on the coronavirus
On this week’s TribCast, Alexa talks to Emma and Shannon about how health care workers are preparing for a rush of COVID-19 hospitalizations and why health care workers on the front lines don’t get expanded paid sick leave protections.
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TribCast: The politics of coronavirus in Texas
On this week’s TribCast, Alexa talks to Ross, Emma and Jolie about Gov. Greg Abbott’s response to the coronavirus outbreak, the newest front in the state’s fight against abortion and the state vs. local battle over bail.
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TribCast: How coronavirus is affecting Texas workers, immigrants and the courts
On this week’s TribCast — a different format in the time of the new coronavirus — Alexa talks to Mitchell, Julián and Jolie about rising unemployment in Texas, the outbreak’s effect on immigrants and delayed justice in the court system.
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TribCast: Texas’ growing response to coronavirus amid a growing outbreak
On this week’s TribCast — a different format in the time of the new coronavirus — Alexa talks to Edgar and Aliyya about the state’s response to a growing outbreak, an assessment of hospital capacity and the impact of school district closures.
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TribCast: Coronavirus in Texas, a voting postmortem and Bonnen on his downfall
On this week’s TribCast, Alexa talks to Edgar, Matthew, Evan and Cassi about the status of the new coronavirus outbreak in Texas, Super Tuesday voting blunders and outgoing House Speaker Dennis Bonnen’s comments on his own downfall.