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Texas midwife arrested for allegedly performing illegal abortions, state AG says (✍️Lucio Vasquez) kut.org/texas/2025-03-…

#BREAKING: Two others have been arrested in connection to the TX AG's abortion investigation. keranews.org/texas-news/202…

I stepped outside my beat a little this week to chat with Austin's first ever poet laureate for KUT Austin. Meet Zell Miller III. kut.org/life-arts/2025…

"The Disconnect", KUT Austin's podcast about why Texans were forced to live without power for days in 2021, has hit 1 million downloads. That's pretty dope. Mose Buchele + Matt Largey (real) work so hard on this. Excited to have a small part in the latest season: npr.org/podcasts/10048…

UT Austin professors fear Trump administration's funding cuts will derail life-saving research. (Had the honor of co-reporting a story with the one and only Austin news gremlin Becky Fogel this week) kut.org/science/2025-0…

The Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee just pulled Rep. Brent Money’s bill classifying abortion as murder, HB 2197, from its 8am hearing tomorrow #txlege

NEW: Austin Public Health announces the second local measles case of 2025, this one in an adult who recently traveled domestically. More soon KUT Austin

NEW from me: Federal funding makes up roughly 6% of KUT Austin and KUTX 98.9's budget. The rest comes from private donations from individuals and businesses. What Trump's new executive order means for public media in Austin: kut.org/politics/2025-…

NEW from me: Insurers in Texas are increasingly using aerial images and AI to decide whether to renew homeowners’ policies. They say it's more efficient. But I found examples where homeowners lost coverage because a flyby shot of their home was misread.

In 1964, he watched children in Chile die of measles. Now, this El Paso doctor is reminding Texans what he saw 50 years ago, and warning them of the serious consequences of the disease spreading in our midst. Today’s must-read story from Lucio Vasquez. keranews.org/texas-news/202…

A judge has struck down a 2001 law providing in-state tuition for undocumented students in Texas. We'd like to speak with current and former students affected by this ruling for a story we're working on for KUT Austin. Email [email protected] or [email protected]. My DMs are open as well.

NEW: TX lets out-of-state students buy homes to get in-state tuition. The law has led to an industry of families paying in cash for condos, owning them for 2 years, and selling them to the next out-of-state family. Often, the students never live there: kut.org/education/2025…

At least 11 lives lost in the Austin area due to flooding this weekend. This is in addition to fatalities along Guadalupe River. Important updates from Trey Shaar Maya Fawaz Olivia Aldridge and Luz Moreno-Lozano kut.org/energy-environ…