Texas Tribune Brief

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July 10, 2019 UT-Austin will cover more students’ tuition
Seeking to make college more affordable, the University of Texas will use some of its oil money to dramatically expand the financial aid it offers to low- and middle-income undergraduates on its flagship Austin campus.
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July 09, 2019 State heads to court to end Obamacare
On Tuesday, after a legislative session that seemed to have no room for issues other than property tax reform and school finance, Texas will ask a federal appeals court in New Orleans to end the Affordable Care Act in its entirety — without offering a replacement plan.
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July 03, 2019 Will Texas teachers get the pay raises they anticipated?
Many school districts are seeing smaller gains from the state's school finance law than they predicted. Teachers are fighting to get bigger raises anyway.
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July 02, 2019 At crowded Mexican shelter, migrants are waiting months to claim asylum
The Senda de Vida shelter in Reynosa is over capacity, filled with migrants and refugees from around the world. U.S. officials will only let a handful at a time cross the border.
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July 01, 2019 Santa Fe school shooting “survivor” David Briscoe wasn’t there
A man who claimed he was a substitute teacher at Santa Fe High during the 2018 shooting told a harrowing story of survival. But the school district says he never worked there.
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June 28, 2019 President Donald Trump pushes to delay 2020 Census
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday, saying the Trump administration had provided a “contrived” reason for wanting to add a citizenship question to the once-a-decade count questionnaire.
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June 27, 2019 Julián Castro spars with Beto O’Rourke on immigration
Home-state tensions flared between the two Texas Democrats running for president as America's debate about immigration centers around the ways federal agencies respond to and care for a surge of Central Americans crossing at the southern border.
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June 26, 2019 Beto O'Rourke, Julián Castro debate tonight in Miami
The two Texans will join eight other Democratic candidates vying to take on President Donald Trump in 2020 for night one of the party's presidential debates.
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June 25, 2019 Migrant children moved after unsafe conditions reported at border facility
Hundreds of children have been moved from a Border Patrol facility near El Paso after reports surfaced that they spent nearly a month living with substandard food, water and sanitation.
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June 24, 2019 Lawyer: Immigrant detention center in South Texas lacks 'basic hygiene’
One attorney said running water is so bad that mothers save any bottled water they can to mix with baby formula. The stories she heard from people in the shelter echo tales at other facilities, where people say conditions are substandard.
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The podcast currently has 1,409 episodes available.