Jill Ament | Texas Standard
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Beto O'Rourke and Julián Castro are probably the best-known Texans whose names come up during discussions of who might join President-elect Joe Biden's cabinet. But a Washington-based reporter says other Lone Star State residents are getting more buzz than Biden's two former campaign rivals.
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From Texas Standard: Late last month the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, quietly updated its flood protection infrastructure policy . In...
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KTEP News Director Angela Kocherga told Texas Standard that hospitals there reached capacity over the weekend. The number of COVID-19 hospitalizations has grown by 300% over the last few weeks, and there's been "a scramble" to find enough hospital beds.
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From Texas Standard: The Houston Chronicle is publishing an investigative series looking into Harris County’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Mike...
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76104 near downtown Fort Worth is an historically Black area where life expectancy is 66.7 years – 12 years below the national average.
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From Texas Standard : Of the more than 1.1 million public school students estimated to have returned to some form of on-campus school activity in Texas,...
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From Te xas Standard: COVID-19 has had a massive impact on retail businesses, as customers stay home to stay safe from the virus. But the "new normal"...
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Cornyn spoke with Texas Standard after returning to Washington, D.C., at the end of the Senate's summer recess.
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Federal Judge Janis Graham Jack of Corpus Christi said in a hearing Thursday that the state has let for-profit providers endanger the lives of vulnerable kids in the care of Child Protective Services, or CPS.
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COVID-19 cases at Texas' public universities are spiking. University and local health officials anticipated that might happen, as colleges and universities try to return to some semblance of a normal fall semester.
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From Texas Standard: A comprehensive report written by two court-appointed federal monitors says that children in the Texas foster care system continue...
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From Texas Standard : The pandemic has had an outsized affect on Texas prisons. Almost 4,000 inmates have tested positive for COVID-19, and 43 people in...