Austin reporter @axios, frmr @statesman journo. My books: Earl Campbell: Yards After Contact; Year of the Dunk; The Great Texas Wind Rush. [email protected]
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@GregAbbott_TX is meeting tomorrow with @BlackRock CEO Larry Fink to discuss technical education in Waco, which ...*checks map*... is very far from NYC. I wrote up the backstory for @axios on how the firm left the Tex ESG doghouse by wooing state officials
https://t.co/uZ7QmGTcUz
Asked about old remarks about the warmth among #scotus justices, Thomas @UTAustin says "When I said a lot of that, it was when I first went to the court....that was a different court...That was a World War II generation."
"I don't know how you bring it back in the current environment with social media and name calling and peole accusing each other of various things and animus...And I feat that's going to affect the institutions such as the court and the judges."
Clarence Thomas says he was invited by @UTCivics dean Justin Dyer and is "grateful for the assistance" of John Yoo, his former law clerk, who has joined Dyer's School of Civic Leadership at UT. (My reporting on the School of Civic Leadership here:
https://t.co/cl4Sip6FXi
Clarence Thomas @UTAustin: "I hope that my talk today will help in some small way to inaugurate another great initiative, the state of Texas' plan to restore the teaching of civics and Western civiliazation to a central place in its flagship university."
My @axios colleague @nicolecobler got the story behind a Waymo robotaxi blocking an emergency vehicle responding to the mass shooting in Austin yesterday https://t.co/QeAPfYWnDv
Just in: The White House tells @axios it's "having good conversations" with @UTAustin over compact deal. UT officials remain mum about whether they'll sign it. https://t.co/yd4A27Rp5b
👀 INBOX: @JohnCornyn campaign says it's launched "KenStoppers," a website where "Texans can anonymously share information or evidence of potentially illegal acts committed by @KenPaxtonTX." #TexasGOP
In my inbox, back to back emails, one minute apart, announcing campaigns between incumbent Paige Ellis and Selena Xie, former EMS labor leader, for a Southwest Austin city council spot. #atxcouncil