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• TribCast: Texas inaugurations and big ideas for education

  16-01-2019 23:41 via tracking.feedpress.it
  TribCast 011619 Miguel Gutierrez Jr./The Texas Tribune
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  On this week’s TribCast, Ross talks to Alex, Aliyya and Patrick about the inaugurations of Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick, proposed state budgets with big money for schools and the first Texan to enter the 2020 presidential race.Read related Tribune coverageAt inauguration, Gov. Greg Abbott promises "we are going to get this done" on school finance and property taxesTexas Hou
  
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• Saying he's in a "funk," Beto O'Rourke hits the road amid 2020 speculation

  16-01-2019 21:41 via tracking.feedpress.it
  Democratic Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke speaks during a town hall meeting in Houston on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018. Michael Stravato for The Texas TribuneBeto O'Rourke is on the road again.Facing calls to run for president after his closer-than-expected loss to Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, O'Rourke has embarked on a trip outside Texas, the first stops of which he detailed in a Medium post Wednesday. O'Rourke, a Democrat, indicated he was traveling along U.S. Route 54 from his El Paso home
  
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• Beto O’Rourke’s immigration plan: No wall, but few specifics

  16-01-2019 15:24 via tracking.feedpress.it
  U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-El Paso, flanked by U.S. Sens. Tina Smith, D-Minnesota (left), and Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, speaks to the press after touring the tent city that holds thousands of immigrant children, in Tornillo on Dec. 15, 2018. Ivan Pierre Aguirre for The Texas TribuneEL PASO — In a digital ad that recently went viral, Beto O’Rourke tore into President Trump’s desired border wall with soaring footage of the Rio Grande Valley and an explanation of what the wall woul
  
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• Shutdown over wall straining Border Patrol agents working overtime without pay

  16-01-2019 07:01 via tracking.feedpress.it
  Pedestrians and cars cross from Mexico into the U.S. at the Paso del Norte Port of Entry near downtown El Paso on Jan. 15, 2019. Jorge Salgado for The Texas TribuneEL PASO — As the government shutdown approached its fifth week and Washington Democrats and President Donald Trump showed no signs of coming to an agreement on how to end the stalemate Tuesday, U.S. Border Patrol vehicles could be seen patrolling just north of the Rio Grande near El Paso’s Paso del Norte bridge.Farther we
  
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• Shutdown leaves immigration courts, border agents in limbo

  16-01-2019 07:01 via tracking.feedpress.it
  Pedestrians and cars cross from Mexico into the U.S. at the Paso del Norte Port of Entry near downtown El Paso on Jan. 15, 2019. Jorge Salgado for The Texas TribuneEL PASO — As the government shutdown approached its fifth week and Washington Democrats and President Donald Trump showed no signs of coming to an agreement on how to end the stalemate Tuesday, U.S. Border Patrol vehicles could be seen patrolling just north of the Rio Grande near El Paso’s Paso del Norte bridge.Farther we
  
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• Eight years on Texas' highest criminal court turned Elsa Alcala into a death penalty skeptic. How will the court change without her?

  16-01-2019 07:01 via tracking.feedpress.it
  Judge Elsa Alcala at the swearing-in ceremony for incoming Judge Michelle Slaughter at the state Capitol on Jan. 11, 2019. Miguel Gutierrez Jr.Three weeks before Julius Murphy was set to die in 2015, the nine Republican judges of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stepped in.The court stopped Murphy's execution and later ordered a lower court to take another look at his case, pointing to allegations of prosecutorial misconduct. But one judge went even further. In a long separate written opinio
  
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• Analysis: At the top of Texas government, three-part harmony

  16-01-2019 07:01 via tracking.feedpress.it
  Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and House Speaker Dennis Bonnen at a joint press conference held at the Governor's Mansion on Jan. 9, 2019. Miguel Gutierrez Jr./ The Texas Tribune
  Editor's note: If you'd like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramsey's column, click here.This might seem premature to anyone who has watched the roiling spectacle of a Texas legislative session, but maybe the state’s top leaders are actually working together.They’ve been saying so for weeks
  
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• Texas House and Senate about $3 billion apart on public education spending

  16-01-2019 00:16 via tracking.feedpress.it
  Then-state Rep. Dennis Bonnen, R-Angleton, visits with Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, on the Senate floor on May 25, 2017. Marjorie Kamys Cotera for The Texas TribuneAlmost everyone at the Texas Capitol agrees the state should spend more money on public schools, but for House and Senate leaders, but how much is enough? On Tuesday, that became a $3 billion question.A day after the Texas House unveiled a proposal to pump more than $7 billion in new state funds into public schools, the Texas Se
  
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