From the Newsroom: Touring McAllen, Looking Back Half A Century

KERA | By Courtney Collins

Published July 2, 2014 at 6:40 PM CDT

In today's All Things Considered local block from the KERA Newsroom:

Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins, State Senator Royce West and a number of North Texans traveled to the border city of McAllen Wednesday. In a surprise announcement last weekend, Jenkins said Dallas County would host more than 2,000 of the immigrant children who’ve crossed the border in the last few months.

And fifty years ago, a President from Texas named Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law.

You can listen to the segment weekdays at 6:20 p.m. and 8:20 a.m. on KERA 90.1 FM.

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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