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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.
Since his appointment, the alternately amiable and peevish, typically cowboy-boot-shod chairman of the Texas Forensic Science Commission has comported himself as a virtuoso of the bureaucratic dawdle. With the commission's investigation of the now-notorious Cameron Todd Willingham case "still in its infancy," John Bradley has this to say about when it might conclude its review: "However long it takes, that’s however long it takes.” Full Story
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Forensic Science Commission says consideration of Willingham case "still in its infancy." Full Story
Your afternoon reading. Full Story
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On the surface, it’s about an oat-and-peanut farm and two South Texas men who wanted enough water to operate it. But underneath lies a century-old tug-of-war over who really owns the water beneath the land. Full Story
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Today, the Texas Ethics Commission votes on a rule reacting to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision allowing corporations to spend money in elections. Full Story
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Your afternoon reading. Full Story
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As Bill White continues to drill Gov. Rick Perry over the state’s education record, poll numbers show the former Houston mayor is gaining some traction against the decade-long incumbent. Full Story
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"Sad and tawdry" affair between judge and prosecutor or not, the U.S. Supreme Court will not hear Charles Dean Hood's case. Full Story
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Late last night, Rick Green took to his Facebook page to dispute comments attributed to Debra Lehrmann claiming he had pledged to have his supporters back her in the general election campaign. Full Story
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Exactly a year after the Tea Party movement asserted its might, its sympathizers want you to know something: they’re still Tea’d. Full Story
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