Newsreel: Polls, Ebola, Embezzlement
This week in the Newsreel: The UT/TT polls are out ahead of the general election, Ebola swirls with politics and a longtime Dewhurst aide pleads guilty to embezzlement of campaign funds.
Full StoryJustin Dehn is a multimedia producer at the Tribune whose focus is videography and television production. He's been shooting TV news for more than a decade, most recently as a staff photojournalist at Austin's KVUE-TV from 2006 to 2010. At the Tribune, Dehn has been behind the camera for Tribune franchises Stump Interrupted, Face-Off and all the TribLive conversations, as well the stories we've produced each week for our dozen TV partners around the state.
This week in the Newsreel: The UT/TT polls are out ahead of the general election, Ebola swirls with politics and a longtime Dewhurst aide pleads guilty to embezzlement of campaign funds.
Full StoryThe actor, political activist and Corpus Christi native, interviewed at the Women in the World Texas summit in San Antonio, on her efforts to mobilize Hispanic voters, Texas' voter ID law and the impact of groups like Battleground Texas.
Full StoryThis week in the Newsreel: Ebola has become a big political story this October, uncertainty on voter ID law continues just days before voting starts, and abortion clinics can remain open for now.
Full StoryTexas' voter ID law is in effect for the Nov. 4 general election. Election workers are working to help ensure there is no confusion as voters head to the polls.
Full StoryHundreds of Texas landowners have already agreed to sell their groundwater for projects supplying growing cities with water. But other landowners worry that selling such rights will hurt the local sustainability of a finite resource.
Full StoryIn an appearance Tuesday on MSNBC, Democratic governor hopeful Wendy Davis defends an ad, which features an empty wheelchair, that criticizes her Republican opponent, Greg Abbott.
Full StoryThis week in the Newsreel: Fallout from state's Ebola response a non-factor for most state officials, voter registration is over and money is in, and Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick lead rivals in campaign cash race.
Full StoryAs the state grapples with the first diagnosed case of Ebola in the country, health officials on Tuesday told the Senate Health and Human Services Committee that an outbreak was extremely unlikely.
Full StoryThis week in the Newsreel: A confirmed case of Ebola in Dallas is testing the state's public health emergency response system. Also, the nominees for governor and lieutenant governor debated.
Full StoryThis week in the Newsreel: a compilation of greatest hits from keynote speakers at the 2014 Texas Tribune Festival.
Full StoryThis week in the Newsreel: Multiple debates hit at the end of September, Todd Staples gets a new job and The Texas Tribune Festival is this weekend.
Full StoryThis week in Newsreel: Wendy Davis publishes her memoirs, Greg Abbott raises ethics questions. Former Bush advisor Joe Allbaugh invests in pot. Gov. Rick Perry's lawyers challenge his indictment.
Full StoryThey served their country, then ended up on the wrong side of the law. But many of Texas' veterans serving time behind bars are getting the guidance to stay out of the legal system upon their release, thanks to a new Texas Department of Criminal Justice program.
Full StoryThis week in the Newsreel: it's official — two gubernatorial debates this fall, a federal judge knocks down some of Texas' abortion restrictions and Rick Perry said he does not condone a tweet tweaking Rosemary Lehmberg.
Full StoryThis week in Newsreel: Newly indicted Rick Perry tested the presidential waters in New Hampshire. Labor Day kicks off election season. And search your communities' local debt with the Tribune's Debt Explorer app.
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