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Report: 63 Million Americans Exposed To Potentially Unsafe Water

The findings highlight how six decades of industrial dumping, farming pollution, and water plant and distribution pipe deterioration have taken a toll on local water systems.

August 16th, 2017

By Texas Tribune

Report: 63 Million Americans Exposed To Potentially Unsafe Water

WOLFFORTH, Texas – As many as 63 million people – nearly a fifth of the country – from rural central California to the boroughs of New York City, were exposed to potentially unsafe water more than once during the past decade, according to a News21 investigation of 680,000 water quality and monitoring violations from the

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Trump’s Sons Behind Nonprofit Selling Access To President-Elect

A new Texas nonprofit led by President-elect Donald Trump’s grown sons is offering access to Trump in exchange for million-dollar donations to unnamed “conservation” charities, according to interviews and documents reviewed by the Center for Public Integrity.

December 20th, 2016

By Texas Tribune and
Carrie Levine | Center for Public Integrity

Trump’s Sons Behind Nonprofit Selling Access To President-Elect

A new Texas nonprofit led by Donald Trump’s grown sons is offering access to the freshly-minted president during inauguration weekend — all in exchange for million-dollar donations to unnamed “conservation” charities, according to

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Texas Senator Wants Schools To Teach Kids To ‘Comply, Then Complain’

“You could be an escaped felon. You could be a bank robber. You could have a dead body in the trunk of that car for all that officer knows.”

October 04th, 2016

By Texas Tribune

Texas Senator Wants Schools To Teach Kids To ‘Comply, Then Complain’

"Comply, then complain" and similar phrases could become all too familiar to Texas' newest drivers, as lawmakers work this week to push two solutions to the rift between law enforcement officers and the communities they serve. State legislators are exploring having Texas schools teach students how to act when stopped by law enforcement, and the

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Watch: Ted Cruz Claims Black Community “Perceives” Unfair Treatment By Police

In a time were police shootings of unarmed black men are being televised almost weekly, the former GOP presidential candidate contended that the unfair treatment of blacks by police was simply an issue of perception.

September 28th, 2016

By Texas Tribune

Watch: Ted Cruz Claims Black Community “Perceives” Unfair Treatment By Police

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz said members of the black community "perceive that law enforcement does not treat them fairly," and that's led officers to fear doing their jobs. Cruz was interviewed at the Texas Tribune Festival by Tribune CEO Evan Smith. This work by

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Former Right-Wing Politician Turned Publisher Defends Controversial Mexican-American Studies Textbook

While serving on the education board in the late 2000s, the same publisher penned a book, One Nation Under God, that argued against the separation of church and state.

September 13th, 2016

By Texas Tribune

Former Right-Wing Politician Turned Publisher Defends Controversial Mexican-American Studies Textbook

The publisher of a proposed Mexican-American studies textbook that scholars, elected officials and Hispanic activists have decried as racist and inaccurate is defending the high school text ahead of a public hearing on the book Tuesday before the Texas State Board of Education. "There's never been a book in the history of SBOE that's been

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Growing Zika Threat Prompts New Calls For Medicaid Expansion In Texas

As Gov. Greg Abbott and the state’s health leaders make public service announcements saying Texas is on heightened alert for mosquito-to-human transmission of the virus, which has been linked to birth defects, many advocates for the uninsured have a different goal in mind.

August 19th, 2016

By Texas Tribune

Growing Zika Threat Prompts New Calls For Medicaid Expansion In Texas

When Texas officials announced earlier this month they would allow Medicaid to pay for mosquito repellent for low-income pregnant women — a move meant to stop the spread of the Zika virus — health care advocates greeted the news with tempered enthusiasm. They saw it as a tacit endorsement by Republican state leaders of the usefulness of

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Washington Post Report Exposes $1 Billion Private Prison Contract To Detain Asylum Seekers

The Post delves into the administration’s $1 billion deal to detain Central American asylum seekers.

August 16th, 2016

By Texas Tribune

Washington Post Report Exposes $1 Billion Private Prison Contract To Detain Asylum Seekers

A new Washington Post report takes a close look at the $1 billion contract given to the nation's largest prison company by the federal government to build a facility in the South Texas town of Dilley to detain women and children seeking asylum.

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