Wells Dunbar, Texas Standard
Social Media Host & Producer, Texas StandardWells has been a part of KUT News since 2012, when he was hired as the station's first online reporter. He's currently the social media host and producer for Texas Standard, KUT's flagship news program. In between those gigs, he served as online editor for KUT, covering news in Austin, Central Texas and beyond.
Before joining KUT, Wells served as staff writer and news blog editor at The Austin Chronicle, and covered the Texas Legislature for Gallery Watch. Hailing from El Paso, Wells is a longtime Austin resident whose interests include technology and social media, film and music, and spending quality time with his wife, child and cat.
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From Texas Standard:If they're in your city, you've certainly seen them, and you've probably formed an opinion about electric scooters – personal… -
From Texas Standard:Three named plaintiffs launched a class action lawsuit last year against the City of Austin, Travis County and several local… -
On a clear spring day in 2013, two smoke stacks fell in El Paso. They had been a part of the landscape, and the El Paso economy for years. It took a mere… -
From Texas Standard:"South Texas ... that's where I stay." Those words from the late rapper Pimp C – edited, fans will note – exemplify the fierce… -
Updated throughout with Final Totals.Republicans swept statewide offices on Election Day, with Attorney General Greg Abbott assuming the Governorship over… -
A courtroom in Marshall, Texas – population 25,000 – is deciding patent cases with implications for some of entertainment's biggest names.Marshall was the… -
It's being called Celebgate: private photos of some of entertainment's most famous women, ricocheting around the web.Jennifer Lawrence, Kirsten Dunst and… -
By now, you've probably seen the photo from President Barack Obama's recent Austin visit: the president smiling and extending a fist bump to a cashier at… -
Normally the "Thanks Obama" meme is reserved for things beyond the president's control: paper cuts and infomercial disasters, to name a few.But Pres.… -
June 25 marks the one-year anniversary of Sen. Wendy Davis' historic filibuster on the Texas Senate floor.It was one year ago that Democratic Sen. Davis…
