Lexi Churchill
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http://propublica.org 23-05-2014 23:16:52
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Congratulations to M.A. Columbia Journ alum Maya Miller (MA Science '18), a member of the ProPublica team that was named a finalist for the 2025 The Pulitzer Prizes for Explanatory Reporting for its work showing how insurers interfere with mental health care. propublica.org/series/america…
NEW: Texas Lawmakers Want to Spend Millions on Child ID Kits. There’s No Evidence They Work. propublica.org/article/texas-… by Lexi Churchill w/ Texas Tribune
Texas legislators slipped millions for child ID kits into a 1,000-page budget proposal. The move comes two years after they quietly cut funding for such kits following a ProPublica and Texas Tribune report that showed there’s no evidence they work. propublica.org/article/texas-…
Texas lawmakers slipped millions into a budget proposal for kits intended to help track down missing kids . The move comes two years after they cut funding for such kits following a ProPublica and Tribune report that showed there’s no evidence they work. bit.ly/43eyTXJ
The TX Senate passed an abortion pill bill with an unusual provision... a state judge cannot find the law unconstitutional and if they do, they could be sued for up to $100,000 “I’ve never seen anything like that in any statute of any kind, anywhere.” texastribune.org/2025/05/12/tex…
"Everyone's afraid that there’s going to come a point in time where you don’t know where one agency stops & the next begins," said the former ombudsman for the Office of Refugee Resettlement, which cares for immigrant kids, about closer ties w/ U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement propublica.org/article/office…
Important piece by lomikriel and Mica Rosenberg about the evolution of a federal entity, tasked with protecting immigrant children, that is becoming an enforcement arm, according to current and former staffers texastribune.org/2025/05/14/off… via Texas Tribune
IMPACT: Texas Lawmakers Push to Impose Penalties on Local Governments for Violating Campaign Finance Posting Requirements propublica.org/article/texas-… Lexi Churchill w/ Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune and ProPublica found nearly three dozen Texas school districts were missing required campaign finance reports online. Now lawmakers are pushing to impose steep penalties on local governments that fail to abide by the law. bit.ly/4jVwDvt
The Texas Tribune and ProPublica found nearly three dozen Texas school districts were missing required campaign finance reports online. Now lawmakers are pushing to impose steep penalties on local governments that fail to abide by the law. bit.ly/4jVwDvt
NEW: Texas legislators dropped efforts to spend millions of dollars to buy what experts call ineffective child identification kits weeks after ProPublica and The Texas Tribune reported that lawmakers were again trying to fund the program. propublica.org/article/texas-… Lexi Churchill
Texas DPS asked a migrant if he had tattoos. He didn't. They searched his phone and found a pic of him standing next to of a man that did. That was enough to label him Tren de Aragua, getting him shipped to El Salvador, lawyers say. via Alejandro Serrano texastribune.org/2025/06/18/tex…
Thank you, Austin Chronicle for giving me a Critics Pick award for my coverage of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (link in thread). I've covered Paxton for more than a decade across two newspapers and, now, public radio. Recently, I've also started covering Elon Musk's