The Brief: San Antonio on Verge of Big Water Play
Questions continue to be raised about a giant water pipeline project that would pump roughly 16 billion gallons of groundwater annually from Burleson County to San Antonio.
Full StoryOn Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014, federal and state health officials confirmed the first case of Ebola in the U.S. in a patient at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.
Ebola is a rare but deadly viral disease that is mostly found in Africa. The current Ebola outbreak has been concentrated in poor, West African countries where more than 6 ...
Questions continue to be raised about a giant water pipeline project that would pump roughly 16 billion gallons of groundwater annually from Burleson County to San Antonio.
Full StoryThe Tribune today launches its 15-part The Shale Life series, which tells in a variety of visual styles the stories of those who are living through the effects, both good and bad, of the shale boom in Texas.
Full StoryMonday night was a big one for a pair of Texas politicos who were both given a national stage from which to galvanize support among their respective voter bases.
Full StoryBorder security and immigration top the list of concerns in Texas, according to the most recent University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
Full StoryTwo Texans — Ted Cruz and Rick Perry — are now the preferred GOP candidates for president in the Lone Star State, according to a new poll from the University of Texas/Texas Tribune.
Full StoryThis week in the Texas Weekly Newsreel: The University of Texas/Texas Tribune polls are out ahead of the general election, Ebola swirls with politics and a longtime aide to Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst pleads guilty to embezzlement of campaign funds.
Full StoryTexas needs to be better prepared to respond to emerging infectious diseases like Ebola, the director of a new state task force on such diseases said Thursday.
Full StoryGOP statewide candidates uniformly hold sizeable advantages over their Democratic rivals.
Full StoryReeve, Ross, Emily and Jim discuss the political landscape now that early voting has begun, the latest in the state's fight against the Ebola virus, the significance of falling oil prices and a guilty plea for embezzlement.
Full StoryGov. Rick Perry and other Texas officials are pointing fingers at the Obama administration for botching the Ebola response. But the state did not fully use its own power to restrict travel, quarantine health care workers and limit possible spread of the deadly virus.
Full StoryCriticism by state leaders of the Obama administration for failures in the response to the Ebola virus omits mention of the tools at the state's disposal that were not used.
Full StoryGov. Rick Perry announced Tuesday that three health care providers in North Texas will partner to form an Ebola treatment facility, as recommended by the state’s infectious disease task force.
Full StoryHere are some dispatches from around the state on the first day of early voting.
Full StoryVoters can cast ballots today for the Nov. 4 general election as the two-week early voting period commences.
Full StoryWith the early voting starting tomorrow, this week's edition of WFAA-TV's Inside Texas Politics with host David Schechter, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram's Bud Kennedy and Tribune Executive Editor Ross Ramsey has a decidedly electoral slant.
Full StoryAt a news conference Friday, Gov. Rick Perry said he has asked President Obama to ban air travel from West African countries fighting outbreaks of the Ebola virus, with exceptions for aid workers.
Full StoryA lingering fight over a failed petition drive aimed at the city of Houston's equal rights ordinance boiled over this week as subpoenas issued against area pastors allied with the petition effort drew the ire of conservative leaders.
Full StoryA representative of the Dallas hospital under scrutiny for its handling of the first Ebola case in the United States apologized on Thursday for mistakes he said the facility made when it initially misdiagnosed the patient.
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This week in the Texas Weekly Newsreel: Ebola has become a big political story this October, the back and forth on the state's voter ID law continues just days before voting starts, and the U.S. Supreme Court says Texas abortion clinics should remain open while courts consider the lawsuits challenging that state law.
Full StoryWednesday amounted to a daylong series of body blows to those who thought that authorities had things under control in the response to the diagnosis of Ebola in Dallas.
Full StoryAfter two of the nurses who treated Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan were diagnosed with the virus, their colleagues across the state are voicing worries, as well as assurances, about hospital readiness in Texas. Read the full story at KERA News.
Full StoryA second health care worker in Dallas who tested positive for the Ebola virus traveled by plane on Monday, one day before reporting symptoms, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The federal public health agency said it is contacting all 132 passengers on the health care worker’s evening flight from Cleveland to Dallas.
Full StoryTuesday turned into a topsy turvy day in the federal courts for the state of Texas with the voter ID law conserved for the Nov. 4 general election but a new delay placed on enforcing the new abortion law.
Full StoryGov. Rick Perry will have to spend part of his Halloween in an Austin courtroom. Perry was excused from a pre-trial hearing on Monday, but he must be at the next one, the presiding judge in the case determined.
Full StoryA health care worker who treated the man who died of Ebola in a Dallas hospital has tested positive for the virus in a preliminary test, state officials reported early Sunday. Dallas officials said the worker who became infected wore full protective gear while treating Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States.
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At a meeting of the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee in Dallas on Friday, lawmakers urged the government to add Ebola screenings at two major airports in Texas while emphasizing that the U.S. was safe from an outbreak.
Full StoryThis week in the Texas Weekly Newsreel: Fallout from the state's Ebola response won't play in the elections for most state officials. Voter regisration is over and money is in. Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick lead their opponents in the campaign dollar race.
Full StoryAfter the first case of Ebola in the U.S. was confirmed in Dallas, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins has been thrust into the national spotlight. It is not the first time Jenkins has been on such a stage, as he has not shied from speaking out on hot-button issues during his time in office.
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