Laura Rice
Producer, Texas StandardLaura first joined the KUT team in April 2012. She now works for the statewide program Texas Standard as a reporter and producer. Laura came to KUT from the world of television news. She has worn many different hats as an anchor, reporter and producer at TV stations in Austin, Amarillo and Toledo, OH. Laura is a proud graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia, a triathlete and enjoys travel, film and a good beer. She enjoys spending time with her husband and pets.
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The retired justice was born in El Paso and attended school there as a child but was especially shaped by her years on her family's Arizona ranch. -
Texas groups helping survivors want legislators in the third special session to earmark some COVID-19 relief funding for their services.
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A new book tracks both the racist policies that affected recovery and how the city’s West Side showed its resilience.
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As of this writing, there are four lawsuits in federal court and one in state court.
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Economist Ray Perryman says Texas stands to lose over $180,000 per year for every person who can’t go back to work because of the pandemic.
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Texas researcher finds widely available three-ply masks are very effective.
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Funding for virtual school through districts happened on a waiver earlier in the pandemic. Now, legislators are trying to put it into statute.
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While there are more than 900 active COVID-19 cases among Texas nursing home residents, the severity of the disease and outbreaks are much less since most residents are vaccinated.
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Inmate suicides rose despite a prison population that decreased last year by about 20,000 from the year before.
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“There's every reason in the world to get every child who is eligible to be vaccinated, vaccinated.”
