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Hinojosa discusses policy at forum By Sarah Philips @sarahphilips23
Gina Hinojosa, the Democratic candidate running unopposed for House District 49, spoke at a forum titled “Meet the New Guys” on Thursday for incoming members of the Texas House of Representatives. The event was hosted by the Texas Tribune and held downtown at The Austin Club. Hinojosa won the Democratic primary in March with 58 percent of the vote in a seven-way race.
With no Republican running against Hinojosa in the solidly Democratic district, which includes all of West Campus, she took the opportunity at the forum to talk about some of her policy views and why she decided to run. As a former member of the Austin ISD school board, Hinojosa said the lack of funding she saw at the district level was the reason she ran for the seat when she heard that current HD 49 Representative Elliott Naishtat was stepping down. “I’ve been on the school
board for the last four years, and I love that work,” Hinojosa said. “It’s just an opportunity every day to make a difference for our kids and our community, but our biggest challenge is funding, and that’s a state decision.” Hinojosa focused on education funding for much of her time at the forum, citing a broken finance system in need of a revamping. Hinojosa’s family is already active in politics. Her father, Gilberto Hinojosa, is the
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Democratic candidate, Gina Hinojosa, spoke at a forum hosted by the Texas Tribune for incoming members.
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Isaiah Carter, left, and James Paxton, right, accompany Student Government members to survey blocks of West Campus in an effort to construct a safety map.
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One day, students should be able to see the safest route home, no matter where they are and where they live, said Isaiah Carter, Student Government chief of staff. Carter — along with a University representative, a City of Austin representative and several SG members — surveyed several blocks of West Campus on Wednesday night as a part of the early process to construct a “safety map” of the area. “I noticed that we have a high volume of students in West Campus, and as a student who has lived in West Campus as long as I have been at UT, I have always wondered why there isn’t some way for me to make an informed decision on how to get home,” Carter said. Carter said he plans for
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The Austin City Council passed their 2016–2017 budget Wednesday after three days of deliberation, with council members Sheri Gallo and Don Zimmerman voting against the budget and councilwoman Ellen Troxclair out on maternity leave. According to the City of Austin, the budget raises the tax rate for the typical taxpayer by $7.21 per month, up to $322.08 as opposed to last year’s $314.87. Council member Greg Casar voted in favor of the budget and said that the council’s greatest priority was focusing on the long term. “I think that we’ve shown that our priorities are trying to balance the needs across the city,” Casar said at the meeting. “I think we’re going to be able to help a lot of people who really need it. I think our greatest priority is investing in our long-term future.” This year’s budget funds a Travis County sobriety center and the Homeless Outreach Street Team, which focuses on assisting the homeless populations downtown and in West Campus. Both of these programs are new to this year’s budget. “There are items in this year’s budget that are years, if not a decade in the case of the sobriety center, in the works,” said council
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Professors discuss politics of Hispanic broadcast journalist Black Lives Matter movement discusses career, path to success By Will Clark
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Professors and activists debated the evolving Black Lives Matter movement, centering around a new document and platform, called A Vision for Black Lives, that aims to clarify the group’s demands and goals. During the Thursday panel some speakers could not foresee practical implementation of these demands into policy while others lauded the movement’s new direction. “The interesting thing here is the push toward expanding the movement beyond just a hashtag,” said Christen Smith, associate professor of African and African diaspora studies. “People look at Black Lives Matter and think of it with the number sign in front of it and immediately associate it with a social
The Center for Mexican American Studies and the Mexican American Studies program hosted the Hispanic Heritage Month kickoff with a talk from John Quiñones, a broadcast journalist and current host of ABC’s hidden camera show “What Would You Do?” Quiñones detailed his journey from a child living in poverty in San Antonio to his extensive career in broadcast journalism. “They would say, ‘That’s great, John, that you have the dream of being a television reporter someday, but maybe you should try woodshop or metalwork,’” Quiñones said. “They judged me by the color of my skin and the accent in my mouth.” He told stories of his time as a migrant worker in San
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UT professors and activists debate the Black Lives Matter movement on Thursday in Sid Richardson Hall.
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John Quiñones, a broadcast journalist and show host, speaks to students and faculty at the SAC Thursday evening.
Antonio and as a young minority professional. “I’ll never forget being on my knees at six in the morning, a young Latino boy looking out over a tomato field at my work for the day,” Quiñones said. “Thirty-five cents per bushel. I’d pick 100.” Quiñones also highlighted his experiences doing
media platform and not recognizing it as a trajectory of black radical politics in this country.” Fatima Mann, an activist with the Austin Justice Coalition, said she agrees with the movement’s direction but its goals are unrealistic. “How are they going to implement this on a
real-life aspect?” Mann said. “How are you going to make it sustainable on a real-life aspect? I agree that there are things that need to be done, but it’s not realistic in terms of application.” Peniel Joseph, director of the Center for the Study
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investigative work in Mexico to expose the plights of Mexican immigrants. “The power of that camera and that light when used in the right way is amazing,” Quiñones said. Several students, including those not of Hispanic descent, said the talk hit home.
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