David Muto
is the editor of TribTalk, The Texas Tribune's opinion page. He is also the Tribune's copy editor. A Richardson native, he attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned degrees in journalism and Spanish.
Recent Contributions
President Barack Obama speaking in Austin on Thursday, May 9, 2013.
State Reps. Ana Hernandez, D-Houston, and Jason Villalba, R-Dallas, debate whether President Obama had the authority to issue executive orders preventing the deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants.
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photo illustration by: Peter Skadberg / Todd Wiseman
Texas is once again fighting with the Obama administration over health care policy. But this time, writes former Texas Solicitor General James C. Ho, it’s state officials who are pushing for more regulation of health care.
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Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Sen. Wendy Davis shows her book "Forgetting to be Afraid" at Book People on September 11th, 2014
Wendy Davis' rout was foretold by a couple of Democratic strategists who despaired nearly a year ago over the direction in which the Democratic gubernatorial candidate was taking her campaign.
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photo illustration by: Nicolas Raymond / Todd Wiseman
Former NFL and University of Texas quarterback Vince Young explains why identifying with the struggles of many first-generation college students made him want to return to the university.
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State Sen. Wendy Davis and Attorney General Greg Abbott before their debate at the Edinburg Conference Center at Renaissance in Edinburg on Sept. 19, 2014.
Water pipeline crew members prepare for the laying of the next section of the 60-mile-long chain running near Eden, Texas.
As the San Antonio City Council prepares to vote on a controversial water pipeline, Amy Hardberger of the St. Mary's University School of Law and Robert Puente of the San Antonio Water System debate whether the project is right for the city.
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In 1981, Max Soffar was sentenced to death for the murder of three people at a Houston bowling alley. Soffar, who has spent three decades on death row, says his confessions were coerced. Prosecutors say that the case against him is solid, and police officers deny accusations of coercion.
Let Max Soffar — an innocent man on death row in Texas who is dying of liver cancer — spend his last days at home, writes Barry Scheck of the Innocence Project.
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Hank Warner teaches a pre-advanced placement algebra course for ninth-graders at Bowie High School in Austin.
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Adam Briggle of the Denton Drilling Awareness Group and Ed Ireland of the Barnett Shale Energy Education Council face off over whether Denton voters should approve a ban on fracking in city limits.
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Anna C. Dragsbaek of The Immunization Partnership writes that there are several other preventable public health threats in Texas right now that are far more menacing than Ebola — and that Texans would be wise to pay close attention to them.
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Wayne Thorburn, a former executive director of the Texas Republican Party, writes that speculation over what a majority-Hispanic population will mean for Texas politics has ignored the fact that decades from now, “Hispanic” may not mean what it does today.
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