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With it being a Wednesday and all, the day our weekly newsletter "The Talk of Texas" goes out, I was looking for a few introductory remarks by scanning the headlines. But I couldn't shake some of the stories that our social media editor,
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Wells Dunbar , had picked to include below. A story on a proposed ban on trans women athletes. A delay in the redistricting cycle. A Rio Grande Valley native helping hundreds of Texans get their COVID shots. And, on a somewhat less serious note, H-E-B's invasion of North Texas and the coming supermarket wars in the Metroplex. It reminded me that once upon a time, we used to talk a lot about how "as Texas goes...so goes the nation," in many respects. But what struck me reading Wells' selections was just how well our producers and reporters manage to capture what's happening in the Lone Star State each day, how well the stories in our weekly newsletter reflect that what's happening right here, right now and how rare it is to find in one place so much about what's happening in our own
communities – within our own backyard, if you will. It's a relatively modest-sized team, including
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Proposed Ban On Trans Women Athletes A ‘Solution In Search Of A Problem’

A Vox reporter tells us the number of trans women and girls in sports is minuscule, and the ban is based on misconceptions about their athletic abilities.

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What A Redistricting Cycle ‘Unlike Any Texas Has Seen Before’ Means For Your Vote

Pandemic-delayed census results mean a holdup in redrawing Texas’ political maps – and possibly moving the 2022 primaries.

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How Selina Herrera Helped 443 Texans Get COVID Shots

She began by helping schedule appointments for family members. But that was just the beginning for this Rio Grande Valley native.

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H-E-B Is Coming To DFW

It’s the largest grocery chain in Texas. But metroplex shoppers have only had access to its higher-end Central Market stores until now.

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Two Former Williamson County Deputies Indicted In Javier Ambler Case
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This Dallas Church Acquired A Bank To Offer An Alternative To Payday Loans
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Harris County Will Spend $4 Million To Prevent Youth Incarceration
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Texas 'Lifestyle Coach' And Boyfriend Arrested For Joining Capitol Insurrection: FBI
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Jerome Weeks , senior arts producer-reporter for North Texas Public Broadcasting in Dallas. I cover cultural events, audiences and artists across the Dallas-Fort Worth area. I just finished a story about the
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Hall of State at Fair Park. If you’ve ever been to the State Fair, it’s an unforgettable building – an art deco showcase of state history built for the 1936 Texas Centennial. Unfortunately, the recent winter storm seriously damaged it when a sprinkler pipe burst. I covered one of the happier bits of news: A collection of rare, glass-plate photographs from the ‘30s are being restored. That story was unusual because I got to visit the site in person and interview the people working on the photos. With so many cultural activities cancelled, curtailed or moved online the past year, the great pleasures of arts journalism have been reduced as well: not much live theater or music to attend, not many museum visits. That lack of public and social interaction is what
everyone’s suffering from these days, of course. And much of my reporting has been on how artists and arts groups
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adapting . They’re artists; they get creative.
- Jerome Weeks

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