Darla Cameron
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Austin, TX, United States
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T-Squared: Jinitzail Hernández is our new video journalist
A Chicago native, she joins us from CQ Roll Call, where she produced articles, podcasts and videos on public policy, including defense and national security. → Read More
We’ve been tracking COVID-19 trends in Texas for 20 months. Take our survey to help inform what we do next.
Our tracker presents the latest on tests, cases, hospitalizations, people who died and vaccinations. We want to know how this information can be more valuable to readers. → Read More
How Texas’ power grid works
Who are the major players and how do they manage the power grid in Texas? → Read More
More Texas Republicans in Congress are acknowledging Joe Biden’s victory, but many holdouts remain
Upon Biden securing 306 electoral votes during Monday’s meeting of the Electoral College, The Texas Tribune polled all Texans in Congress with the question: “With a majority of the Electoral College voting for Biden today, do you accept Joe Biden as the president-elect?” → Read More
In Texas, Biden’s urban wins couldn’t offset Trump’s millions of votes in rural, red counties
In order to turn the tide in 2020, Biden needed to take advantage of population growth in the state’s biggest cities and political shifts in the suburbs to erase Trump’s massive advantages in rural areas of the state. → Read More
T-Squared: Data visuals team adds two new developers
Carla Astudillo and Mandi Cai will work on the award-winning team of developer-journalists that uses data to find and tell stories about Texas. → Read More
How would lawmakers' plan to hike sales taxes and drop property taxes affect Texans?
The so-called tax swap wouldn't make a big difference in average Texans' tax bills, according to a new analysis. But it would shift the tax burden from higher-income households to the less well off. → Read More
From property taxes to teacher pay, here's how the Texas House and Senate compare on spending priorities
Lawmakers must reconcile major differences in their proposed two-year budgets, including funding for public schools, teacher salaries, women’s health, prison guard salaries and more. → Read More
Here’s how each Texas House member voted on the property tax reform bill
One of the Legislature’s priority property tax reform bills, Senate Bill 2, was approved by the House on a 107-40 margin Tuesday. More than 20 Democratic lawmakers broke party ranks to support the measure. → Read More
As Trump arrives for rally, El Pasoans say history shows he was wrong about their city
As another government shutdown looms later this week, the president follows his State of the Union speech with a rally in the city he said was plagued by crime before border fencing went up. Here's what history shows about border enforcement and crime in El Paso. → Read More
We asked every Texan in Congress whether the government shutdown over President Trump's border wall is worth it
When asked whether the stalemate over President Trump's border wall is worth federal employees missing their paychecks, Texans in Congress appear to be divided along party lines — save for Republican U.S. Rep. Will Hurd. → Read More
Shutdown anxiety sweeps both Texas and Washington
The partial federal shutdown could come to a head Friday, when tens of thousands of Texas federal workers will miss their paychecks. Meanwhile, officials also worry about small businesses who rely on federal contracts. → Read More
Texas State students were likely a key factor in flipping this conservative county to Democrats
Beto O'Rourke surged to a 15-point edge over Ted Cruz Hays County during last week's election, even though the Central Texas county hadn't voted for a Democrat at the top of the ticket since 1992. → Read More
Are Texas suburbs slipping away from Republicans?
In Williamson, Hays, Collin and Fort Bend counties, Republicans saw their dominance falter on Tuesday. → Read More
Gerrymandering backfired for Texas Republicans in Dallas County in 2018
Republicans hoped to keep a majority Texas House seats from Dallas County when they redrew district boundaries in 2011. Seven years later, they've only held onto two of 14. → Read More
Texas Democrats in Congress oppose Trump proposal to end birthright citizenship. Most Republicans have stayed silent.
Three of the four Republicans who responded to our requests for comment said they supported President Donald Trump's idea. → Read More
Texas early voting tracker: Here's turnout in the 2018 midterms so far
Every day during early voting, the Texas Tribune is tracking cumulative in-person and mail-in ballot turnout in the counties where most voters live. → Read More
As Texas grows, an affordable housing crisis looms. Here are six things to know.
Demographics, income and location all play roles in the difficulties Texans face finding an affordable home in a neighborhood they like. → Read More
Texas school districts receive first official A-F grades. Look up how your district did here.
For the first time Wednesday, Texas school districts received official ratings that show their performance on a scale from A through F, perpetuating a debate on whether the new system is more accessible for parents. → Read More
Everything we know about Texas-regulated facilities holding migrant children: violations, numbers and more
Many of the thousands of children separated from their parents at the southern border under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy will end up in one of Texas’ 32 state-licensed facilities. Those shelters, licensed as child care providers that may accept unaccompanied minors as well as children taken from their families, have a long history of regulatory inspections that have… → Read More