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Sonal Shah
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., CEO of chatted with about growing up in Houston, the spirit of community that pervades the city and the urgent need for free and independent media.
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For a Texan who wants to build bridges in Congress, U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales has burned quite a few texastribune.org/2023/05/08/ton via
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“This can’t be happening”: Allen becomes latest U.S. town to grapple with a mass shooting texastribune.org/2023/05/07/All via
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Fox News presented Gov. Greg Abbott with a poll that showed Americans overwhelmingly favored background checks and raising the age to buy firearms.
But Abbott shunned gun safety options and instead pointed to the need to increase mental health funding.
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Texas towns need money, technical help and compromise to save their water systems texastribune.org/2023/05/04/tex via
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The 13 election bills to watch as the Texas Legislature heads into its last month texastribune.org/2023/05/02/tex via
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Toxic benzene lingered for weeks after shelter-in-place warnings ended following 2019 Houston-area chemical fire texastribune.org/2023/04/27/tex via
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When it comes to upping mental health services, Texas has a Medicaid problem texastribune.org/2023/04/28/tex via
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In small towns across America, kids are crawling under parked train cars to get to school on time.
Trains are blocking roads to schools for hours or even days at a time.
And they could start moving at any moment.
(video by from our partners at )
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Texas lawmakers hope an investment in teacher training will help keep new educators in the classroom longer texastribune.org/2023/04/26/tex via
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“We are in the early stages of the largest, fastest transformation in human behavior that we've ever seen,” ’s told ’s at 's MO Summit in Austin.
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Toxic benzene lingered for weeks after shelter-in-place warnings ended following 2019 Houston-area chemical fire texastribune.org/2023/04/27/tex via
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Was honored to keynote today’s 2023 MO Summit (thanks for the great conversation) and especially excited to happen upon the 2023 Top Impact Companies ranking to find Aspiration as the #1 finance company and #11 overall
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In overnight testimony, Uvalde victims’ family members call on Texas lawmakers to raise age to buy semi-automatic guns texastribune.org/2023/04/19/tex via
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Texas looms large in 2024 presidential race as Trump, others angle for early support texastribune.org/2023/04/21/tex via
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Honored to have received the @asugsvsummit lifetime achievement award. While I feel I’m just getting started, I’m so grateful for this vote of confidence in the collective work of the thousands of people who have contributed to the impact of @TeachForAmerica and @TeachForAll
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Last night was electric! The cameras 📸 flashed, the audience erupted 🙌 and the confetti 🎊 rained.
We’re extremely grateful to all the change-seekers who showed up to support our 5️⃣ Social Innovation Accelerator finalists at The Pitch powered by .
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Texas judge cancels Ivan Cantu execution after new evidence suggests he might be innocent texastribune.org/2023/04/20/tex via
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Texas has the fifth-highest percentage of water pipes made of lead texastribune.org/2023/04/04/tex via
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Seats are filled and The Pitch 
powered by PNC is officially underway and I'm ready to take the stage in 
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powered by PNC is officially underway and I'm ready to take the stage in #InnovateUnited
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So excited to be part of the @CareInActionUS team! Yes, there was dancing in between the conference panels. twitter.com/HillaryHolley4…
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As Texas college students struggle with affordability, UT-Austin launches program to offset on-campus housing costs texastribune.org/2023/04/19/ut- via
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“We don’t think it’s appropriate to destroy the earth in order to save the earth.”
A group of Franklin County residents are supporting legislation that would impose more regulations on solar and wind. The industry says it’s being unfairly singled out.
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In overnight testimony, Uvalde victims’ family members call on Texas lawmakers to raise age to buy semi-automatic guns texastribune.org/2023/04/19/tex via
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U.S. Supreme Court lets Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed pursue DNA testing in bid to prove innocence texastribune.org/2023/04/19/rod via
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Documentary filmmakers spent 3 years chronicling the launch of @19thnews — cheers, tears and all. The resulting film, "Breaking the News," will premiere at the @Tribeca Film Festival.
Equal parts thrilled and terrified to see our team on the big screen!
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More than two-thirds of Texas’ 100 prisons don’t have air conditioning in most living areas, forcing thousands of prison officers and tens of thousands of prisoners to work and live in stifling temperatures.
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"It shouldn't matter where you are born or where you live for today's society."
CEO with and of at #GlobalIGS in Washington, DC #inclusivegrowth
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A plan for Texas to build its own power plants could cost $7 billion more than expected texastribune.org/2023/04/13/tex via
Federal judge says Texas’ use of psychotropic drugs puts foster kids at serious risk texastribune.org/2023/04/12/tex via
Texas’ #foster care system is plagued with problems. Here’s how lawmakers want to fix it. texastribune.org/2023/03/02/tex via
Implicit in these criticisms is a preposterous notion that if the finding of any one paper is counter to what advocates wish it to be that (1) the finding is wrong (2) the researcher should be disqualified from certain jobs (3) the researcher is biased.
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