Two floodgate failures on 90-year-old Guadalupe River Valley dams — and the plan to lower the remaining four — are highlighting Texas’ underfunded, aging flood infrastructure.
Chase Karacostas
Chase Karacostas was a reporting fellow in 2020. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was the projects editor at The Daily Texan, started the paper’s first legislative newsletter and worked as a news editor and reporter. Chase previously had internships at the Austin American-Statesman, the San Antonio Express-News and The Dallas Morning News.
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Criminal Justice
Lawyers say the Texas judge who presided over this Jewish death row inmate’s trial later called him anti-Semitic slurs
Lawyers for Randy Halprin, a member of the “Texas Seven,” are requesting a stay of his execution amid allegations that the judge who handled his case made racist and anti-Semitic comments during his time on the bench.
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Texas House Democrats ask Gov. Greg Abbott to call a special session after two mass shootings
Members of the House minority say they want to consider legislation “closing the background check loopholes” and “banning the sale of high-capacity magazines.”