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J. David Goodman
@jdavidgoodman
Houston Bureau Chief for The New York Times. I cover Texas. Previously
@NYTMetro
david.goodman@nytimes.com
Houston, Texastopics.nytimes.com/top/reference/…Joined September 2008
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The Republican speaker of the Texas House says that if
@KenPaxtonTX
wants to use taxpayer money to pay his whistleblower lawsuit settlement, he'll have to come before the House and explain why he should get it Could be quite a hearing!
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CBS News Texas
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.@cbs11jack spoke with House Speaker @DadePhelan at the Texas Capitol today. Phelan says he opposes taxpayer dollars being used to fund Attorney General @KenPaxtonTX's settlement agreement for $3.3 million with four of his former top officials who filed a whistleblower lawsuit.
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Texas attorney general Ken Paxton reached a $3.3 million settlement with 4 former senior aides who accused him of corruption. “I have reached a settlement agreement to put this issue to rest. I have chosen this path to save taxpayer dollars," said Mr. Paxton in a statement
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NEW: In Texas's largest county, more than a dozen Republican candidates including the challenger to
@LinaHidalgoTX
are contesting their defeats, citing Election Day issues like paper shortages Democrats called the contests frivolous and unprecedented
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After Election Problems in Houston, Republicans Seek to Overturn Results
A growing number of contests to elections in Texas’ Harris County are a broad attempt to cast doubt on an Election Day that officials concede had problems.
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Edgar Sandoval 🗽
@edjsandoval
In court documents obtained by the
@nytimes
, a man said he was afraid of the mother of the #Uvalde gunman. “He is scared of what AR might do to him when no one is around or when he is sleeping,” an officer wrote in a police report, ref: #AdrianaReyes
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Mother of Uvalde Gunman Arrested Over Threats to Kill a Man
The police said Adriana Martinez Reyes, who told them the teenager behind the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, was her son, threatened to harm a man during an altercation.
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Justin Miller
@by_jmiller
my latest: Texas has now awarded nearly $700m in construction contracts for its border wall, and just recently raised the first steel panels on private property in Cameron County
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Texas Observer Lives!
@TexasObserver
As Governor #GregAbbott’s wall scheme slowly advances, the state awarded $224 million to a construction company that built a private wall now on the brink of collapse into the Rio Grande. New from TXO #Politics Reporter @by_jmiller: texasobserver.org/texas-awards-b #Border #Immigration
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Texas Tribune
@TexasTribune
Texas won't try to ban 18- to 20-year-olds from carrying handguns in public. A federal judge ruled earlier this year that such a ban was unconstitutional, which Texas said it would appeal, but Texas DPS Director Steven McCraw withdrew the appeal this week.
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Texas drops fight to prevent 18- to 20-year-olds from carrying handgu…
A federal judge ruled earlier this year that a state law banning young adults from publicly carrying handguns is unconstitutional. The state no longer plans to appeal that ruling.
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Greg Abbott
@GregAbbott_TX
BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts has HALTED the lifting of Title 42 for now. Texas and other states are insisting that the Court leave Title 42 in place. Today's order is a step in that direction. This helps prevent illegal immigration.
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Just to clarify my tweet: not every single one of the trucks passing through the state police checkpoint gets inspected, but it's a high frequency and is already causing delays
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NEW: After major migrant crossings, Texas has begun inspecting all incoming commercial trucks at a bridge in El Paso, deploying a @GregAbbott_TX strategy from the spring that snarled traffic at the border With @edjsandoval and @viaSimonRomero nytimes.com/2022/12/13/us/
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Edgar Sandoval 🗽
@edjsandoval
I spent most of this week covering the murder trial of a former Border Patrol agent accused of killing 4 women he knew from a red-light district in #Laredo. Their families are here demanding justice. Lawyers for #JuanDavidOrtiz said he was coerced. Read:↩️
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Trial Begins for Border Patrol Agent Accused of Killing Four Women
Juan David Ortiz, an intelligence officer in Texas, told the police that he had wanted to “clean up the streets,” prosecutors said. He has said the confession was coerced.
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The city of Uvalde is now suing the local district attorney to gain access to investigatory documents "The District Attorney has blocked the City’s ability to obtain critical information"
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So far this school year in Houston, classes have been cancelled on less than a day's notice because of: the Astros winning the World Series; a boil water notice I knew there probably wouldn't be snow days, but who knew there could be such variety!
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Over 2,100 provisional ballots were cast in Harris County by voters who arrived at polling place after 7pm and were allowed to vote under a court order, before the Texas Supreme Court halted the extra time, says Cliff Tatum, the county election administrator
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Update: the Harris County election administrator is clarifying that the votes will not be counted tonight, but will be set aside for now
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The Texas Secretary of State challenged a court order keeping open the polls in Harris County for an extra hour, and the Texas Supreme Court sided with the Secretary of State All provisional ballots cast between 7pm and 8pm will not be counted, per the county elections admin
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The Texas Secretary of State challenged a court order keeping open the polls in Harris County for an extra hour, and the Texas Supreme Court sided with the Secretary of State All provisional ballots cast between 7pm and 8pm will not be counted, per the county elections admin
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Just one arrest at the Astros victory parade: a man who threw a beer at
@tedcruz
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HPD made one arrest during today’s victory parade. A male, 33, threw a beer can at U.S. Senator Ted Cruz as the Senator was on a float in the 2400 block of Smith St. The beer can struck the Senator in the chest/neck area. The Senator did not require medical attention. 1/2
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