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As I perused the stories our editors hand-picked for inclusion in this week's newsletter, I almost found it hard to believe it's only been a week since Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States. Since last Wednesday we've heard about efforts to rethink
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how vaccines are distributed in Texas, a proposal to change the metric for funding Texas public schools, gubernatorial sabre-rattling over cities that cut the budgets of police departments, and – within a very short window of the calendar –
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a so-far successful attempt by Texas Attorney General Paxton to reverse one of President Biden's most anticipated early immigration reform moves: a 100 day moratorium on the deportation of some undocumented immigrants. If the rapid issuance of the executive order on deportations was designed to send a message that there would be no time wasted undoing the legacy of the Trump administration's immigration policy, then it can hardly be ignored what sort of message Paxton intended to send as he trumpeted his success in federal court on Tuesday.
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As Paxton tweeted shortly after the decision by a federal judge in South Texas, “Within 6 days of Biden’s inauguration, Texas has HALTED his illegal deportation freeze." Though this will not be the last word on the matter, with appeals expected and a possible Supreme Court battle on the horizon, it sends an unmistakable signal about what we may expect in the relationship between Texas and the federal government (at least in the near term). Though we'll continue to track the deportation ban, our producers are also mindful about taking the long view, spotting the larger trends that illuminate the direction we're headed. We hope you enjoy the stories below, and we encourage you to explore more of the backstories at our website. Until next Wednesday, we'll see you on the radio.
- David Brown
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Through Song And Rhetoric, Unity Was The Resounding Theme Of The Inauguration
President Biden’s inauguration wasn’t the high-energy event most inaugurations are. But that didn’t make the event any less significant.
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Greg Abbott Threatens Cities Like Austin, Where Police Budgets Have Been Cut
The governor has proposed cutting off access to tax revenue and limiting cities’ annexation powers. Will he be able to carry through?
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State Lawmaker: Time To End Attendance-Based School Funding
Austin Democrat Gina Hinojosa says an enrollment-based funding model is more equitable and better matches the remote learning model created during the pandemic.
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A Viral Video Led To These High School Mariachis Playing The Inauguration
Organizers of an inaugural ball asked Roma High School performers to put together a performance of “This Land Is Your Land.” They had four days to turn it around.
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Texas Governor Discusses COVID-19 Liability Protection For Businesses, Vaccines During San Antonio Visit
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6 More HPD Officers Indicted In Connection With 2019 Harding Street Raid
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How Dallas Is Preparing To Get $40 Million In Rent Assistance To People In Need
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Austin's COVID-19 Outlook Is Slowly Getting Better
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Hi! I’m Jake Perlman – a native Texan who grew up in Kansas City with a life-long passion for music and radio. Prior to working at
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KUT /
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KUTX Austin and the Texas Standard, I was a drummer in a touring band for many exhausting, fun, and smelly years. Driving for hours, we’d listen to NPR stations in the van, rarely moving to the right side of the dial. I feel like maybe I absorbed the sound and feel of public radio into my skin. Most of my pre-COVID days at KUT/KUTX were spent mixing bands for broadcast in our
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state-of-the-art Studio 1A . My work with the Texas Standard is something that’s quite different for me. To have a show ready by “Texas Standard time” every day is often challenging and fairly stressful. But it’s a tremendous feeling to have an hour of Texas-centric news go out to the entire state. Having the opportunity to see the journalists of the Standard get pieces together, choose just the right music for a segment, and help tell the stories of Texas has been quite an education. Since COVID-19, the stations have transformed into a bare-bones operation. Instead of around 100 people in our building, there are now no more than four or five at any given time. The tech staff is responsible for disinfecting the on-air studios and edit bays throughout the day. The
Texas Standard is entirely remote, except for the technical director. And on the days I engineer the show, that's me. I get up to the station pre-dawn to make sure that the show gets out to listeners sounding as good as possible. In these weird times, it’s even more fulfilling to do the job of keeping people informed.
- Jake Perlman
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