Dad and journalist. Former @HoustonChron @callerdotcom @galvnews @tylerpaper
Houston, TX
Joined February 2013
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This is today! Who has questions for Mike Miles? Subscriber exclusive: Join our private Zoom event with HISD Superintendent Mike Miles houstonchronicle.com/about/n… via @houstonchron
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HISD community demands Mike Miles' resignation over investigation into charter school financials houstonchronicle.com/news/ho… via @houstonchron
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Lots of paper, maybe some documents on fire in the dumpster outside the Texas Attorney General's office #txlege
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Texans own among the most guns per capita of any state. If more guns and fewer gun laws made us safer, Texas would be the safest state. Instead it has high rates of gun suicide and homicide, and is home to four of the 10 deadliest mass shootings in the US.
Allen, Texas
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🚨BREAKING
Texas Republicans are on the verge of giving Gov. Greg Abbott precedent-setting power to overturn future elections in Harris County and call for new elections.
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It has been decades since the last time the Texas House gallery was ordered completely cleared out. Longtime observers say it's been at least 30 years since the last time it happened #txlege
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The untold story of Jim McIngvale, the complex man behind Houston’s famous Mattress Mack houstonchronicle.com/news/ho…
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Llano County library supporters declare victory as officials decide not to close all branches texastribune.org/2023/04/13/… via @TexasTribune
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In 2014, one of Texas billionaire Harlan Crow’s companies quietly bought several lots on a residential street in Savannah, GA.
The seller? Crow’s friend & travel companion Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. 🧵👇
ALT Black and white portraits of Crow (left) and Thomas (Right), with a house blueprint and property deed overlaid
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If you’re wondering how TEA’s first community meeting is going…not well. They seem totally unprepared to respond to the anger and frustration in this room.
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Eli Lilly received a lot of praise when it lowered the list prices on some insulins, but the story is more complicated than the headline. It's now clear the move was done to maximize profits rather than as a benevolent act for patient affordability.
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The marketing campaign against remote work is truly relentless.
ALT New York City super commuter to travel up to five hours round-trip to the office. They say it’s worth it. By Jane THIER. March 5, 2023 at 9:30 AM EST.
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So this is your PSA
You won’t be able to file #FOIA requests on FOIAonline past Sept. 30
And get your records, control numbers off the site before then
"When this goes dark, your stuff, if you haven't downloaded it, you lose it," @digiphile told me
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Must read from @grist @HoustonChron @BmtEnterprise for anyone interested in the lengths petrochem operators will go to avoid paying to reduce the size of their pollution footprint. grist.org/project/accountabi…
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On Monday, the company notified us that the journalists who work at @AlDiaDallas will no longer do Spanish-language journalism. We think this decision goes against the Sense of Purpose and Service that are so much praised in our organization. More here: dallasnewsguild.org/news/aft… – at Dallas, TX
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We interrupt the coverage of a school shooting in Des Moines that interrupted the coverage of a mass shooting in Monetary Park that interrupted the coverage of a mass shooting in Fort Pierce to bring you the coverage of a shooting spree in Half Moon Bay.
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Let’s do some #numbers regarding local #publicradio station salaries, shall we? A station currently has a position posted for a starting salary of $55k a year. That translates to about $2780 a month net income for most months, if paid biweekly. 🧵
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Re: gas stoves. Striking how many Texans are objecting on the basis of “what if the power goes out for days?” rather than “cooking.” A real measure of how vividly we remember the Feb 2021 disaster…
