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South Dallas summer camp tackles food gap with free meals
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Texas is the second-worst state for women’s health outcomes, a new study says
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Rural paramedics are making routine house calls to avoid costly emergency room visits
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Affluent North Texas school districts grapple with a growing problem: a rise in homeless students
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Texas Medical Board adopts rule for doctors offering emergency abortions
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A new federal rule could offer protection from extreme heat to millions of workers
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Texas to double $5 billion state fund aimed at expanding the power grid
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Cook Children’s sues Texas over Medicaid contract denial
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Texas sues New York doctor for telemedicine prescription of abortion pills
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued a New York doctor who allegedly provided abortion pills to a pregnant woman in Collin County, Texas. Dec. 13, 2024, 7:36 PM CST By Zoë…
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Rural providers, advocates push Texas Legislature to “rescue” maternal health care system
By ELEANOR KLIBANOFF/The Texas Tribune Updated 2:29 PM CST, December 3, 2024 Twenty five years ago, the Texas Legislature passed a sweeping set of reforms to resuscitate the state’s collapsing rural…
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Hospitals gave patients meds during childbirth, then reported them for positive drug tests
By Shoshana Walter Published December 11, 2024 at 2:33 PM CST Amairani Salinas was 32 weeks pregnant with her fourth child in 2023 when doctors at a Texas hospital discovered that her…
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Texas professors self-censor for fear of retaliation, survey found
By Kate McGee Published December 12, 2024 at 1:02 PM CST University professors across the political spectrum in Texas are preemptively self-censoring themselves for fear of damaging their reputations or losing their…
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Texas conservatives plan to further restrict trans lives this legislative session
Emboldened by the recent election, some Texas lawmakers are already filing bills that would dictate bathroom use, limit gender identity markers on documents and restrict funding for surgeries. By Eleanor Klibanoff…
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The crisis behind Dallas County’s new opioid overdose prevention hotline
KERA | By Sam Baker Published November 4, 2024 at 5:00 AM CST Dallas County had more than 3,800 deadly or non-fatal opioid overdoses in 2023. That’s a 58% increase over 2018.…
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Texas approves Bible-infused curriculum for public schools
KERA | By Bill Zeeble Published November 22, 2024 at 12:07 PM CST The Texas State Board of Education today gave final approval to a controversial new elementary curriculum that features numerous…
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South Dallas and the Civil Rights Movement
KERA | By KERA Staff Published November 18, 2024 at 5:47 AM To watch video, Click Here. Think the Civil Rights movement skipped over Dallas? Think again. In the heart of South…
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How ‘wildly successful’ anti-trans ads fired up Texas voters for Republicans
By Eleanor Klibanoff | The Texas Tribune Published November 11, 2024 at 7:42 AM CST In the final weeks of a heated reelection campaign, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz released a television ad with a…
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Dallas voters say ‘yes’ to marijuana decriminalization and more police on election night
KERA | By Nathan Collins, Ed Timms Published November 6, 2024 at 3:26 AM CST Dallas voters approved a marijuana decriminalization measure and two controversial city charter propositions that could significantly change how…
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