
J. David Goodman
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Houston Bureau Chief for The New York Times. I cover Texas. Previously @NYTMetro david.goodman@nytimes.com
Houston, Texas
Joined September 2008
The Republican speaker of the Texas House says that if @KenPaxtonTX wants to use taxpayer money to pay his whistleblower lawsuit settlement, he'll have to come before the House and explain why he should get it. Could be quite a hearing!.
.@cbs11jack spoke with House Speaker @DadePhelan at the Texas Capitol today. Phelan says he opposes taxpayer dollars being used to fund Attorney General @KenPaxtonTX's settlement agreement for $3.3 million with four of his former top officials who filed a whistleblower lawsuit.
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RT @TexasStandard: What ‘s behind a bill in the state Legislature to ban Chinese property purchases in Texas? . @nytimes Houston bureau chi….
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Southwest Airlines’ reputation took a nosedive in December, when it canceled over 15,000 flights and stranded over 2 million passengers. Last week, company executives appeared on Capitol Hill to...
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RT @JeffLindner1: A significant tornado has impacted portions of SE Harris County around the Deer Park and Baytown…vehicles overturned and….
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RT @AKMcGlinchy: Doing research for a big project, came across this in the @nytimes from 1983:
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NEW: In Texas's largest county, more than a dozen Republican candidates including the challenger to @LinaHidalgoTX are contesting their defeats, citing Election Day issues like paper shortages. Democrats called the contests frivolous and unprecedented.
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A growing number of contests to elections in Texas’ Harris County are a broad attempt to cast doubt on an Election Day that officials concede had problems.
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RT @edjsandoval: In court documents obtained by the @nytimes, a man said he was afraid of the mother of the #Uvalde gunman. “He is scared o….
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The police said Adriana Martinez Reyes, who told them the teenager behind the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, was her son, threatened to harm a man during an altercation.
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RT @by_jmiller: my latest: Texas has now awarded nearly $700m in construction contracts for its border wall, and just recently raised the f….
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“The whole thing was stupid". Years after a large private border fence went up on the Rio Grande, it's at risk of falling over in a major flood, according to a government-commissioned report first obtained by @propublica.and @TexasTribune.
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A scandal-plagued private border fence is essentially orphaned, mostly redundant and, engineers found, at risk of floating away in a flood.
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RT @edjsandoval: Many migrants waiting just across the border from #ElPaso were glued to their phones…looking for the latest news about the….
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A tense limbo pervaded both sides of the border on Wednesday as people waited for the end of a policy that has restricted immigration during the pandemic.
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RT @TexasTribune: Texas won't try to ban 18- to 20-year-olds from carrying handguns in public. A federal judge ruled earlier this year that….
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A federal judge ruled earlier this year that a state law banning young adults from publicly carrying handguns is unconstitutional. The state no longer plans to appeal that ruling.
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RT @GregAbbott_TX: BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts has HALTED the lifting of Title 42 for now. Texas and other states a….
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Just to clarify my tweet: not every single one of the trucks passing through the state police checkpoint gets inspected, but it's a high frequency and is already causing delays.
NEW: After major migrant crossings, Texas has begun inspecting all incoming commercial trucks at a bridge in El Paso, deploying a @GregAbbott_TX strategy from the spring that snarled traffic at the border . With @edjsandoval and @viaSimonRomero.
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RT @edjsandoval: @jdavidgoodman @GregAbbott_TX @viaSimonRomero I found the @TxDPS checkpoint near the International bridge in #elpaso, but….
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NEW: After major migrant crossings, Texas has begun inspecting all incoming commercial trucks at a bridge in El Paso, deploying a @GregAbbott_TX strategy from the spring that snarled traffic at the border . With @edjsandoval and @viaSimonRomero.
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"He was an innocent bystander," a Houston police investigator said of Takeoff in announcing the arrest of a man charged with his murder.
BOOKING PHOTO: Patrick Xavier Clark, 33, charged with the murder of Kirshnik Khari Ball (Takeoff). #hounews . 1/2
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RT @houstonpolice: UPDATE: We will have a 1:30 p.m. news conference at HPD Headquarters, 1200 Travis St., to discuss an update in the fatal….
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