Ashley Lopez
Senior Reporter, Health Care and PoliticsAshley Lopez joined KUT in January 2016. She covers politics and health care. Previously she worked as a reporter at public radio stations in Louisville, Ky.; Miami and Fort Myers, Fla., where she won a National Edward R. Murrow Award. She earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism and political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
You can email her at alopez@kut.org.
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Health officials say wait times in hospitals are "very long" as COVID-19 transmission continues in the community.
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La Liga de Mujeres Votantes de Texas dice que esta escasez está afectando desproporcionadamente a los miles de ciudadanos recién naturalizados que suelen registrar cada año.
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The Texas League of Women Voters says this shortage is disproportionately affecting the thousands of newly naturalized citizens they usually register each year.
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La nueva ley estatal exige que los votantes utilicen el mismo documento de identidad para solicitar el voto por correo que utilizaron cuando se registraron para votar.
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The new state law requires that voters use the same ID to request a mail-in ballot that they used when they registered to vote.
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This wave is hitting as the nursing workforce in Texas is burnt out and shrinking
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Los demandantes dijeron que era inusual que las cortes del Quinto Circuito recibieran argumentos orales y que simplemente debían devolver el caso al tribunal inferior.
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Plaintiffs said it was unusual for the Fifth Circuit to hold oral arguments and that it simply needed to send the case back to the lower court.
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Congressman Lloyd Doggett says laws passed since 2020 that make it harder to vote pose the greatest threat to free and fair elections in the U.S.
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Experts say if labs get overrun, it could cause issues that trickle down to all parts of the health care system.