Dave Montgomery
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Free-lance writer for New York Times, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Highways and others. Former bureau chief in Washington, Austin and Moscow.
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I wanted to thank all of you who were so kind to text and call after my head collided with concrete while I was covering the UT protests. Officers and students alike quickly offered a helping hand after my mishap. The flood of good wishes was really touching. I'm fine now. DM
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At the RR EXPRESS game Fathers Day treat from my son Colin
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The governor’s golden retriever, Pancake, was the star of the show at the opening joint presser by the gov, lt. gov and speaker on the grounds of the gov mansion.
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Picture of happiness. Our 16-y-o granddaughter with her new DL.
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I was so fortunate to be able to cover Barbara Bush during her years in Washington and afterward. She was unfailingly gracious, refreshingly candid and intensely loyal to those she loved. Of her husband of 73 years, she had this to say in her memoirs: “He is my hero.”
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A Texas lawsuit brought by women denied an abortion to resolve dangerous pregnancies could be the first of many, say attorneys.
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Want to see what rodeos are like in the 21st Century? Step inside Dickies Arena, Fort Worth's $540 million showcase that will not only show off broncs and bulls but also offer a diverse parade of concerts, sports and family events.
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We're part of a dwindling number, but some of us old-school Texas reporters had a front-row seat to covering President George H. W. Bush. Read about some of those reflections in today's Texas Monthly.
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AI's certain to get a lot of attention in the 2025 Texas Legislature and two N. Texas lawmakers - Rep. Giovanni Capriglione and Sen. Tan Parker - will be playing a major role. Fort Worth Report takes a close look.
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Proudly making my debut in Stateline today to tell you about global concerns over water and yet another drought threatening big parts of the United States. Includes insights from the point-man for the water crisis in Capetown, South Africa.
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Mineral Wells' Baker Hotel, which once hosted Garland, Gable and maybe even Bonnie & Clyde, is poised for a comeback under a $65 million renovation slated for completion in 2022.
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Disabled Texans stage a protest in the Texas capitol rotunda to call for a pay raise for community attendants who care for them in their home. Danny Saenz, 59, shown foreground, says the current salary of $8 an hour is too low to keep qualified attendants.
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Fort Worth Report joined Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker on her first visit to the Texas Legislature since she took office, accompanied by Republican Caucus Chair Craig Goldman. It was sort of a homecoming - she's a former top Lege staffer.
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Democrats speakers led by Beto O’Rourke and Julian Castro appeared before hundreds of supporters at the state Capitol Saturday in an impassioned offensive against “voter suppression” bills in the Legislature sea
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The years certainly haven't been kind to the Baker Hotel since it closed in 1972. Take a look out at these outstanding photos by Tamir Kalifa in The New York Times.
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Gov Abbott says he'll make an announcement on a special session later this week
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One of the most pervasive questions of the Texas Storm was how a huge state with vast energy reserves became paralyzed by power outages that cut off electricity for millions of shivering residents. Here's the answer.
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Jump on in! Heat-escapees and fun-lovers are flocking to Austin's revered Barton Springs Pool.
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State commits $1 million to National Juneteenth Museum planned to open in Fort Worth in 2025.
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Ever been to Valley View mall in Dallas or Highland Mall in Austin? See what's happened to them in my NYT piece on the future of malls.
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Catch my story in Stateline today on the surging practice of street medicine - health care pros who treat the homeless where they live. We follow PA Joel Hunt of the JPS Health Network as he makes the rounds in Fort Worth's homeless camps.
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@petersagal
PJ and I shared the same floor of a Saudi hotel during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, and it was kind of like being in a dorm. He was funny, personal, uniquely talented and dauntless - even when Iraqi Scud missiles were being shot down overhead.
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. (BTW, the tree-cutter's coming to the Montgomery household today. Luckily, we never lost power.)
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Never thought of Mineral Wells, Texas, as a happening place? Well, get ready for a 21st Century Baker Hotel and other added attractions.
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NYT profiles Greg Abbott and the challenges of leading a polarized state. Will he call lawmakers back to Austin?
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Phil King battled street gangs as a FW cop. Now he's looking to lead the Texas House.
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Take a stroll down Austin's South Congress and see what's happened in the decades since it was a seedy red light district. So Co's come a long way, Baby.
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The name may be unexciting - civil assets forfeiture - but it's now a hot issue in Texas, thanks to the president.
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Texas is back in business - sort of - as retailers, restaurants, movie houses, and malls are allowed to partly reopen in a first-phase effort to get its $1.8 trillion economy back on track.
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Texas may have lots of things to brag about but voter turn-out isn't one of them. It's typically at or near the bottom, but a surge of early voting is altering expectations for this mid-term. Full report in Stateline.
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Hope you'll read my in-depth story in Stateline on Sutherland Spring's 7-month-long struggle to recover from its devastating tragedy on Nov. 5, when 26 people were killed in the deadliest church murders in U.S. history.
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Attention H-E-B shoppers. Here's an NYT piece a bunch of you storm-tossed Texans can identify with. I picked up some bananas and paper towels when I was at an Austin H-E-B reporting the story.
ttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/22/us/texas-heb-winter-storm.html
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Covered lst big music festival since Las Vegas. Saw a little anxiety but mostly defiance - and lots of music.
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Linda and I are at the funeral of the late President Bush. Buses carrying mourners to the church have this tribute to the late President and former Navy pilot.
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The Star-Telegram profiles new Democratic State Sen. Beverly Powell of Fort Worth as she settles into her duties more than six weeks after beginning her first legislative session in Austin.
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House just voted 147-0 to approve a major public school bill to reduce end-of-course exams and change graduation requirements.
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The new class of Texas House members stands to take the oath of office as the 86th Legislature begins its 140-day session.
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@NYTimesPR
@NYTMetro
@byjayroot
Proud to say Jay’s been a pal and a colleague for more than 25 years. The NYT is getting one of the country’s best news sleuths.
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Calling Congress a “group of reprobates” for not addressing the border crisis, Gov. Greg Abbott announced the deployment of 1,000 National Guard troops to assist at border crossings and temporary holding facilities in El Paso and the Rio Grande Valley.
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First-rate job by veteran moderator Shelley Kofler in Guv debate. Solid questions from panel.
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It still prides itself on a touch of weirdness but Austin 2021 is far more. Texas' capital city is now ranked as a No. 1 hot spot for commercial real estate, one of the nation's leading tech hubs and a magnet for flashy corporate relocations.
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It's going to be another challenging year for Ken Paxton. Not only does the state AG face a re-election challenge from a member of the Bush family, but he's now contending with a State Bar investigation for trying to overturn the 2020 election.
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@rickdunham
@kherman
@garymartindc
@BarackObama
@POTUS
Truly a memorable occasion and not a hostile word toward the press.
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Rep. Charlie Geren of Fort Worth, one of outgoing House Speaker Joe Straus' top lieutenants, is facing a Republican primary rematch from Fort Worth businessman Bo French, who ran against the House Administration chairman in 2016. French announced his candidacy Thursday.
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Ethics reform package sails through Senate on a vote of 31-0.
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Amber alerts have rescued 830 children since the program started 20 years ago after the murder of Amber Hagerman.
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Cheering throngs gathered in San Antonio’s historic Plaza Guadalupe to await former Mayor Julian Castro’s plunge into the Democratic presidential race. It’s Castro’s old neighborhood, not far from the church where he was baptized. Crowd size could be well be more than 1,000.
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After thousands of inmates and staff were killed or sickened by the Covid pandemic, prisons are now confronting a record shortage of corrections officers that is woefully straining staff and undercutting inmate services.
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@Grav1
@amanbatheja
And I'm afraid they still do. You can take the boy out of West Texas but not the West Texas out of the boy.
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Possibly hundreds in capitol to testify on tax reform. Huge line in capitol hallway for committee hearing. Overflow room already filled.
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With his son at his side, House Speaker Dennis Bonnen discusses his struggles with - and triumphs over - dyslexia in a Star-Telegram interview days before the House is set to vote on new state funding for dyslexic students.
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House votes 145-2 to give preliminary approval to an education measure that would reduce end-of-course exams from 15 to 5.
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It’s gambling day at the Texas capitol. House State Affairs holding hearing on bills to permit sports betting and casino gambling.
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Is rural resistance to school choice in Texas on the verge of collapse? Take a look at my story in today's .
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Fort Worth's state senators and House members authored well over 100 bills that Gov. Greg Abbott signed into a law. Fort Worth Report examines what all they do, from protecting motorists to ensuring care for terminally ill patients.
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The 200-plus residents of tiny Carbon showed incredible resiliency Saturday in the aftermath of wildfires that leveled home after home. " With our friends and God, we're going to pull right through this," said council member Michael Williams,
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Check out the Star-Telegram for a look at Texas House Dems and their leader, Rep. Chris Turner, who are seeking to wield expanded influence after boasting their best election gains in nearly a decade.
ttps://www.star-telegram.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/
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State Capitol readies for inauguration of Gov Abbott and LG Patrick tomorrow.
http://t.co/AUpSeu4iyU
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You'll see every conceivable calamity at Texas A&M"s Disaster City - train wrecks, battered buildings, crumpled cars. Stateline tours this elite training ground for first-responders, more important than ever in a year of extremely violent weather.
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Texas House members pack a news conference as Speaker Dennis Bonnen unveils a “monumental” plan to reform school finance. “We need to get it done,” said Bonnen, “and it’s going to happen.”
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In good times, pro sports pumps billions into the economies of sports-dependent cities like Arlington, Texas, and Anaheim, California. But Covid 19 has turned all that around.
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Fort Worth is going all out at South by Southwest in Austin with a two-day exhibition to boost its stature after studies showed it's falling behind competing cities. Exhibition continues Wednesday.
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@amanbatheja
@startelegram
@nytimes
Yep, two Startle-Grammers again teaming up on a traditional Texas news story that never fails to keep on giving - the twists and turns of the Texas Legislature.
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A pair of "Stand for Life" boots were the choice of footwear for Konni Burton on her first day as a senator.
http://t.co/rPhwO49KsR
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Rick Perry said the dismissal of indictment against him proves the case was a “baseless political attack” by a “rogue prosecutor.”
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The First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, devastated by a massacre that stole the lives of 26 members 18 months ago, is starting a new chapter in its recovery with a new worship center that was dedicated on Sunday.
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Calling for repeal of the death penalty is no longer strictly a cause for liberal activists. Now Republicans are weighing in against the death penalty in at least a half-dozen states and more may follow suit. Stateline has a full report.
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Stateline takes a close look at the continuing rise in pedestrian fatalities, which are taking place at a disproportionate rate in low-income communities of color.
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Tarrant County now has five, count'em five, senators representing parts of the state's third-largest county in the month-old 88th legislative session. But one familiar face is gone from the line-up.
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Gun control advocates say "it's high time" to take action against mass slayings in the aftermath of El Paso and Dayton but state lawmakers are sharply divided on what happens next.
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Rep Lon Burnam, at Tarrant County breakfast, calls Perry "public enemy No. 1" on women's health care
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As temps nose downward with the approach of winter weather, Gov. Abbott assured Texans in a press conference that the state's power grid "is stable and resilient and reliable" after nearly a dozen corrective laws passed by the Legislature in the aftermath of Winter Storm Uri.
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Jane Nelson is at the height of power after 22 years in the Senate. ST profiles the Senate Finance Chair.
http://t.co/t5uwocYTks
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Covid 19 has claimed the lives of scores of law enforcement officers, far surpassing traditional dangers such as gunfire or crashes to become the nation's deadliest police killer.
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More than two dozen protesters staging a sit-in at a branch of the Tx governors office to oppose anti-sanctuary cities bill.
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Disclosures that Sandra Bland taped her traffic-stop confrontation with Trooper Brian Encinia has ignited a new controversy in the nearly 4-year -old case, prompting protests and an upcoming legislative hearing.
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Covered Van Cliburn's return concert to Moscow in 2004. Russians loved "Vanusha." Packed hall. Standing ovation.
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Congressman-elect Jake Ellzey is crediting his victory to a positive message. “I believe in a brighter tomorrow, and a great country, and that our best days are ahead of us,” he tells the New York Times.
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Perhaps to no one's surprise, the state's massive power outages are morphing into a political issue that Democrats plan to wield against Gov. Greg Abbott and state Republicans in next year's elections.
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@ktumulty
@puckett_daniel
@NicholeManna
Had the pleasure of knowing Dan and observing his talents. What a an awful and untimely loss.
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From defensive tackle for the Paschal Panthers to interim AG in the Paxton impeachment case. Take a look at the Fort Worth Report's profile on FW attorney John Scott.
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Statesman columnist Ken Herman takes us back to the 1990 West Texas campfire that became the beginning of the end for oilman Clayton Williams' political aspirations. Williams died last week at 88.
Herman: Clayton Williams' impact on world history
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Law enforcement agencies have lost tens of thousands of personnel over the last decade, and to confront the crisis, they're trying an array of recruiting tactics, from catchy social media ads to new incentives. Stateline has a full report.
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The House just voted 64-82 against reauthorizing the Texas Lottery Commission.
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Look for chaplain bills to come up in other states now that Texas has taken the lead.
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Covering the GOP convention. Meet delegate Dean Higginbotham of Georgetown. "I wear many hats. This is just one."
http://t.co/sfuHyHZMTf
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More grim news as wildfires burn across hundreds of thousands of acres in western Oklahoma and other drought-stricken parts of the Southwest. Nearly 43 percent of the continental U.S. is now in drought, according to the newly released April 19 map by the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Stateline's story on the
#drought
spreading across the U.S. is getting a lot of attention (even if it is raining today in DC).
@daveymontgomery
reporting. Check it out:
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Big day at UT-Austin tomorrow: 50th anniversary remembrance of UT sniper victims and the start of campus carry.
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Traffic update. I-35 finally started moving so no need for that primal scream. Pioneers moved faster than we did.
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Stateline examines the nation's book wars: Parents and pols in 30+ states are pushing to rid school libraries of hundreds of books, igniting a fierce push-back from a coalition of librarians, authors, students and other parents. Take a look.
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The dispute over a state music museum is shining a light on Texas' musical heritage and efforts to preserve it.
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The First Baptist church of Sutherland Springs is dedicating a new worship center built to honor the 26 victims slain in a 2017 mass shooting at the original church just next door. Gov. Greg Abbott was scheduled to address hundreds of worshipers gathered for the ceremony.
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Rep. Chris Turner, D-Grand Prairie, elected to No. 2 spot on House Democrats' leadership team.
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Public-funded lobbying by cities is emerging as the latest battleground in the power struggle between states and local government. Stateline examines the showdown in Texas.
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