From The Newsroom: Students On Book Suspensions, Mayor Talks Trinity Redo

KERA | By Courtney Collins

Published November 19, 2014 at 6:43 PM CST

The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

Highland Park High students weigh in on the controversy surrounding suspended school books. And Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings asks more than 100 people to join his effort to re-imagine the controversial Trinity Parkway, the nine-mile toll road planned for inside the Trinity River levees.

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Courtney Collins

Courtney Collins has been working as a broadcast journalist since graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 2004. Before coming to KERA in 2011, Courtney worked as a reporter for NPR member station WAMU in Washington D.C. While there she covered daily news and reported for the station’s weekly news magazine, Metro Connection.

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