On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Evan, Patrick and Emma about Texas’ mold-infested state health services building, whether the feds will meet a court-ordered deadline for migrant family reunifications and why some Republican statewide officials have no incentive to debate their Democratic opponents.
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TribCast is a weekly political podcast, hosted by Matthew Watkins and Eleanor Klibanoff, and featuring a rotating list of guests that includes politicians, policy experts and Texas Tribune journalists.
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TribCast: More fundraising headlines, Texas GOP reaction to Trump and Russia, SD-19 special election
On this week’s TribCast, Patrick talks to Ross, Aman and Evan about the latest campaign finance reports, how Texas Republicans reacted to President Donald Trump’s summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin and the July 31 special election for Senate District 19.
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TribCast: Democrats make it rain in some key races
On this week’s TribCast, Patrick talks to Evan, Ross and Neena about Democrats’ impressive fundraising in the U.S. Senate race and some congressional contests, as well as about the latest developments in the family separation crisis at the Texas-Mexico border. Senate hopeful Beto O’Rourke also joins the show to discuss his second-quarter fundraising numbers.
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TribCast: The latest on the shifting immigration crisis
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Evan, Patrick, Marissa and Emma about the politics at play in the ongoing border crisis and how countries with striking similarities to Texas have brought down their maternal mortality rates.
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Crisis on the border, 5-year anniversary of the Wendy Davis filibuster and the latest UT/Texas Tribune poll
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Jay, Neena, Edgar and Ross about inconsistent efforts to reunify immigrant parents and kids on the border, how Texas voters feel about separating families in the name of immigration enforcement, and the legacy of the Wendy Davis filibuster.
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Family separations, political horse races, guns, weed and the NFL, from the UT/TT pollsters
In this special edition of the TribCast, Texas Tribune Executive Editor Ross Ramsey sits down with University of Texas at Austin pollsters Daron Shaw, Jim Henson and Josh Blank to talk about the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
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Immigrant family separations, Pain and Profit in Medicaid managed care
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Ross, Emma and The Dallas Morning News’ Dave McSwane about the separation of immigrant families on the Texas-Mexico border and McSwane’s Pain and Profit series about misdeeds in the state’s Medicaid managed care program.
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“Blood Will Tell” investigation, death row with disabilities
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Evan, Jolie and the New York Times Magazine and ProPublica’s Pamela Colloff on Pam’s two-part “Blood Will Tell” series on blood spatter analysis and the state’s consideration of intellectual disabilities in death row cases.
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Texas and SCOTUS, George P. Bush’s “fake news,” Senate race heats up
In this edition of the TribCast, Texas Tribune reporter Patrick Svitek sits down with CEO Evan Smith, executive editor Ross Ramsey and reporter Emma Platoff.
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Looking at Greg Abbott’s response to Santa Fe
In this edition of the TribCast, Texas Tribune political reporter Patrick Svitek sits down with CEO Evan Smith, executive editor Ross Ramsey and education reporter Aliyya Swaby.