The Midday Brief: May 18, 2010
Your afternoon reading. Full Story
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Morgan Smith
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Morgan Smith was a reporter at the Tribune from 2009 to 2018, covering politics, public education and inequality. In 2013, she received a National Education Writers Association award for “Death of a District,” a series on school closures. After earning a bachelor’s degree in English from Wellesley College, she moved to Austin in 2008 to enter law school at the University of Texas. A San Antonio native, her work has also appeared in Slate, where she spent a year as an editorial intern in Washington D.C.
Past Contributions
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The Brief: May 18, 2010
The state misused the blood samples of Texas babies, and lawmakers yesterday showed they are not happy about it. Full Story
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The Next Deepwater?
While Congress investigates the April 20 explosion that killed 11 people and spiked an underwater oil leak that continues to spill more than 210,000 gallons a day, another BP rig is at the center of its own firestorm. Full Story
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The Brief: May 17, 2010
Thomas Jefferson isn't safe yet. Full Story
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The Midday Brief: May 14, 2010
Your afternoon reading. Full Story
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The Brief: May 14, 2010
Opposites attract and all that, but Annise Parker and Rick Perry still make very strange bedfellows. Full Story
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Debt Becomes Her?
Don’t look now, but the Texas GOP, the party of budgetary teetotalers, has been piling up debt like a college kid with his first credit card — and that has put chair Cathie Adams in the hot seat a month before she seeks reelection at the state Republican convention. Full Story
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The Midday Brief: May 7, 2010
Your afternoon reading. Full Story
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2010: South Texans for Perry [Updated]
If Gov. Rick Perry had any hurt feelings from the defection of Grand Prairie’s Republican mayor to the Bill White campaign last week, an announcement today might make up for it. Full Story
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The Brief: May 7, 2010
Cinco de Mayo isn’t the only celebration to happen in early May. Full Story
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