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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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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“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.
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Dissecting Tuesday’s party primary runoffs in Texas
In this edition of the TribCast, the first one after the party primary runoffs, Texas Tribune Executive Editor Ross Ramsey sits down with Political Editor Aman Batheja and reporters Patrick Svitek and Emma Platoff.
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Comptroller Hegar downplays potential tax benefit of sports gambling in Texas
In this edition of the TribCast, the last before the May 22 primary runoff, Texas Tribune Editor-in-Chief Emily Ramshaw sits down with CEO Evan Smith, Executive Editor Ross Ramsey, political reporter Patrick Svitek and a special guest, Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar.
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Forecasting the Valdez-White debate and understaffed Texas prisons (podcast)
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Ross, Patrick and Jolie about Friday’s lone Democratic gubernatorial debate, massive understaffing at one Texas prison and what runoff turnout might look like.
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Debate drama, Austin scooters, the Texas speaker’s race (podcast)
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Evan, Ross and Emma about who’s debating whom in the Senate and gubernatorial matchups, what’s next for Austin’s scooters and the latest names to emerge in the Texas House speaker’s race.
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Cannabis oil, special elections and redistricting (podcast)
On this week’s TribCast, Ross talked to Evan, Patrick, Alex and Democratic congressional candidate Dr. Christine Eady Mann about the upcoming runoffs, a hurried special election coming up, Texas redistricting litigation in the U.S. Supreme Court, and epilepsy patients’ struggles to get medical cannabis oil.
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Redistricting hits SCOTUS, Stockman gets convicted (podcast)
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Ross, Patrick, Alexa about the Supreme Court-bound Texas redistricting case, Ted Cruz’s latest fundraising numbers and former U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman’s criminal conviction. Democratic congressional candidate Rick Trevino joins the conversation.
