From The Newsroom: Specialized Visas Wanted, ‘Pretty Woman’ Looks Good at 50

KERA | By Courtney Collins

Published August 29, 2014 at 6:40 PM CDT

The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

Nearly a quarter of Texas business owners are foreign born. These entrepreneurs bring in billions, but getting here and staying here, is a challenge. And 50 years ago this month, Texan Roy Orbison recorded a song that made him a rock-n-roll legend

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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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