Synopsis
Hosted by the Tribune's editor-in-chief Emily Ramshaw and featuring a rotating cast of Tribune reporters, editors and special guests, the TribCast is an informal and, with luck, amusing discussion of Texas politics and policy. New episodes post each week.
Episodes
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TribCast: How Texas is mourning George Floyd and protesting police brutality
03/06/2020 Duration: 31minOn this week's TribCast, Alexa talks to Matthew, Alex, Ross and Miguel about how Texas is mourning George Floyd and protesting police brutality, and the group does a quick elections check-in.
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TribCast: How to vote in a pandemic and Texas' record unemployment rate
27/05/2020 Duration: 29minOn this week's TribCast, Alexa talks to Matthew, Emma and Ross about the state's recently released guidance for the upcoming elections, the reopening of water parks and the economic devastation faced by Texas workers.
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TribCast: Bars are back, but questions remain on child care and voting by mail in a pandemic
20/05/2020 Duration: 32minIn this week's TribCast, Alexa talks to Matthew, Aliyya and Ross about the latest reopenings in Texas amid missed benchmarks, child care complications for low-income parents and swirling voting-by-mail questions.
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TribCast: The “don’t do as I say” coronavirus edition
13/05/2020 Duration: 31minOn this week's TribCast, Alexa talks to Ross, Emma and Matthew about the governor's move to pull back on the enforcement of his executive orders related to the coronavirus pandemic and a GOP congressional hopeful's misleading messaging on voting b...
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TribCast: The governor's quicker-than-expected move to further reopen Texas
06/05/2020 Duration: 30minOn this week's TribCast, Alexa talks to Matthew, Emma and Ross about the governor's move to reopen more businesses in Texas more quickly than expected and the implications of those reopenings.
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TribCast: How Texas plans to reopen businesses during the coronavirus pandemic
29/04/2020 Duration: 27minOn this week's TribCast, Alexa talks to Cassi, Matthew and Ross about the phased reopening of Texas businesses and what that could mean for Texans who must return to work in a pandemic.
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TribCast: Reopening the economy, testing in rural Texas and election woes
22/04/2020 Duration: 28minOn this week's TribCast, Alexa talks to Evan, Matthew and Emma about the slow efforts to reopen the Texas economy, a testing quandary in rural Texas and election administrators' woes over the upcoming elections.
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TribCast: Forecasting what's next with coronavirus and the next legislative session
15/04/2020 Duration: 28minOn this week's TribCast, Alexa talks to Matthew, Cassi and Ross about what's coming next in the state's response to the coronavirus pandemic and the group does some forecasting for what the public health emergency could mean for the next legislati...
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TribCast: Texas health care workers take on the coronavirus
08/04/2020 Duration: 17minOn this week's TribCast, Alexa talks to Emma and Shannon about how health care workers are preparing for a rush of COVID-19 hospitalizations and why health care workers on the front lines don't get expanded paid sick leave protections.
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TribCast: The politics of coronavirus in Texas
01/04/2020 Duration: 21minOn this week's TribCast, Alexa talks to Ross, Emma and Jolie about Gov. Greg Abbott's response to the coronavirus outbreak, the newest front in the state's fight against abortion and the state vs. local battle over bail.
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TribCast: How coronavirus is affecting Texas workers, immigrants and the courts
25/03/2020 Duration: 21minOn this week's TribCast — a different format in the time of the new coronavirus — Alexa talks to Mitchell, Julián and Jolie about rising unemployment in Texas, the outbreak's effect on immigrants and delayed justice in the court system.
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TribCast: Texas' growing response to coronavirus amid a growing outbreak
18/03/2020 Duration: 23minOn this week's TribCast — a different format in the time of the new coronavirus — Alexa talks to Edgar and Aliyya about the state's response to a growing outbreak, an assessment of hospital capacity and the impact of school district closures.
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TribCast: Coronavirus in Texas, a voting postmortem and Bonnen on his downfall
11/03/2020 Duration: 34minOn this week's TribCast, Alexa talks to Edgar, Matthew, Evan and Cassi about the status of the new coronavirus outbreak in Texas, Super Tuesday voting blunders and outgoing House Speaker Dennis Bonnen's comments on his own downfall.
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TribCast: Joe Biden's Super Tuesday win and other primary election results
04/03/2020 Duration: 51minOn this week's TribCast — a supersized, live edition — Alexa talks to Ross, Patrick, Alex, Matthew, Cassi and Evan about Joe Biden's Super Tuesday win and other notable primary election results.
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TribCast: Bernie Sanders' Super Tuesday momentum and judicial election questions
26/02/2020 Duration: 33minOn this week's TribCast, Alexa talks to Matthew, Patrick and Emma about Bernie Sanders' momentum going into Super Tuesday, how that's stoking concerns among some Democrats and the questions that come with judicial elections.
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TribCast, special edition: Our pollsters analyze the latest UT/TT Poll on primary races and issues in Texas
19/02/2020 Duration: 34minIn this edition of the TribCast, Ross talks to pollsters Joshua Blank, James Henson and Daron Shaw about the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll, the state’s presidential and Senate primaries, and what Texas voters said about issues faci...
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TribCast: A Texas Senate retirement and Bernie Sanders' new lead in the state
19/02/2020 Duration: 29minOn this week's TribCast, Alexa talks to Emma, Cassi and Alex about what state Sen. Kirk Watson's retirement could mean for the Senate, Bernie Sanders' new lead in presidential polling in Texas and a Democratic candidate's sexist comments about his...
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TribCast: Texas Democrats' Beto O'Rourke dilemma and the road to Super Tuesday
12/02/2020 Duration: 28minOn this week's TribCast, Alexa talks to Matthew, Ross and Alex about the questions facing Texas Democrats on how much of a role they want O'Rourke to play in their elections and the setup for Super Tuesday voting in the state.
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TribCast: Forecasting a Super Tuesday delay in Texas and the upcoming primary
05/02/2020 Duration: 28minOn this week's TribCast, Alexa talks to Matthew, Patrick and Ross about an expected delay in Super Tuesday delegate totals in Texas and what we're keeping an eye on for the upcoming primaries.
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TribCast: A special election blowout and checking in on the presidential primary
29/01/2020 Duration: 28minOn this week’s TribCast, Matthew talks to Alex, Cassi and Patrick about the big Republican win in House District 28, growing unrest in the grassroots and the state of the presidential primary in Texas.