2024 in Photos: The Best Photos Told the Stories of Texas in 2024
2024 in photos goes through Texas Tribune’s biggest stories of the year and the photographs that helped tell them.
Tag: TEXAS
As Texas landowners resist border wall, it’s fragmented and built in remote areas
By Zach Despart, Yuriko Schumacher and Uriel García,
photography and video by Ben Lowy and Eli Hartman
In December 2021, Gov. Greg Abbott traveled to South Texas to inaugurate the first 880-foot stretch of the state’s newly constructed wall on its border with Mexico.
At the press conference, with cameras zoomed tightly on him against a backdrop of the three-story high, slatted wall in Starr County, the Republican governor declared the barrier to be impenetrable. He banged a mallet
At least a third of landowners approached by state officials have refused to let wall be built on their properties.
Texas’ maternal mortality committee faces backlash for not reviewing deaths from first two years post-Dobbs
The Texas Maternal Mortality Committee is facing backlash for not reviewing deaths during the first 2 years post-Dobbs
Texas elected official Tano Tijerina Switches to Republican Party
Tano Tijerina switched to the Republican party at a time when Democrats were defeated along the U.S.-Mexico border in November’s presidential election.
Trial Judge in Robert Roberson’s Death Row Case Agrees to Recusal
Senior District Judge Deborah Oakes Evans recused herself after a challenge to her impartiality over longtime relationships with case prosecutors and judges.
Tony Gonzales, Chip Roy Clash Over Mass Deportation Plans
Gonzales’ warning that mass removals of undocumented immigrants are unfeasible got pushback from Roy, who said everyone in the country illegally must be deported.
Approval of Texas’ Bible-infused Curriculum Will Depend on Abbott Appointee
Tiffany Clark, who was elected to fill a vacant State Board of Education seat in January, said she would have voted against the curriculum.
Jasmine Crockett DESTROYS Texas GOP
Texas currently has some of the most regressive and dangerous laws restricting reproductive health in the entire country, and women are dying. TX Rep. Jasmine Crockett calls out the people responsible.
Texas OB-GYNs Urge Lawmakers: Change Abortion Laws After Reports on Pregnant Women’s Deaths
The group of 111 doctors cited recent ProPublica reporting on two pregnant women who died because doctors did not provide lifesaving care.
Dan Patrick debunks claims about Texas voting machines switching votes
Republican National Committee Co-Chair Lara Trump said Texas had fixed an error with voting machines, but Patrick quickly said there was no problem to fix.
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