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Edward McKinley

@ByEdMcKinley

I cover Texas politics and government for @HoustonChron and @ExpressNews. Mizzou Mafia 🐯 + Minnesotan.

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linkhttps://www.houstonchronicle.com/author/edward-mckinley/ calendar_today23-01-2017 18:50:33

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from Guillermo Contreras:

Florencio 'Lencho' Rendon, a San Antonio businessman and longtime Democratic strategist and lobbyist, is one of the middlemen who allegedly helped U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife launder bribes from a Mexico City bank:

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Henry Cuellar is facing bribery allegations in an election year. Could Republicans flip his seat?

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From this AM: John Cornyn is fighting a new federal gun rule. Biden officials say he helped enable it

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THREAD: Long before 36-year-old Gennesse Moreno opened fire on Houston’s Lakewood Church, police, social workers and judges in Texas knew she was mentally ill, armed and violent, a Chronicle review of records show.

No one stopped her.
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I spent the week at UT Austin, where campus is moving on around its students even as some feel stuck in the shadow of the Gaza protests and arrests:

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The below letter criticizes pro-Palestine protests at UT Austin for seeking to silence Jewish students.

The fifth signatory is Harlan Crow, a UT alum who reportedly owns a collection of Nazi artifacts and Hitler memorabilia, such as a signed copy of Mein Kampf.

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jumping in here to shout out Morgan Severson, who is finishing her internship with Houston Chronicle this week and has been a crucial part of our team's efforts to cover the protests at UT 🙌

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The Houston Federation of Teachers, Houston ISD's largest teachers union, is asking its members to vote on a resolution of no confidence in HISD Superintendent Mike Miles.

The union says it plans to announce the results of of the resolution next week.

The Houston Federation of Teachers, @HoustonISD's largest teachers union, is asking its members to vote on a resolution of no confidence in HISD Superintendent Mike Miles. The union says it plans to announce the results of of the resolution next week.
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Wow. I had no idea how heavily Texas was using AI to grade STAAR test essays.

Starting last December, all student essay responses were fed through a computer program for scoring.

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