Edison Wu, Author at The Texas Tribune https://www.texastribune.org/author/edison-wu/ Independent news. Trusted by Texans. Thu, 30 Oct 2025 10:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.texastribune.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/cropped-cropped-texas-tribune-favicon-32x32.png Edison Wu, Author at The Texas Tribune https://www.texastribune.org/author/edison-wu/ 32 32 249301168 Many Texans will pay more for ACA health insurance. Here’s what to know about open enrollment. https://www.texastribune.org/2025/10/30/texas-aca-obamacare-health-insurance-open-enrollment/ Thu, 30 Oct 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.texastribune.org/?p=199273 A hospital room in Cedar Park Regional Medical Center in Cedar Park on March 13, 2024.

The federal marketplace’s health insurance premiums will cost more for many people. Enrollment runs Nov. 1 to Jan. 15.

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A Houston mother held by ICE must choose: indefinite detention or be deported without her family https://www.texastribune.org/2025/09/08/ Tue, 07 Oct 2025 18:36:31 +0000 https://www.texastribune.org/?p=186298 José Avila and his sons, Jeremiah (left) and Issac (middle), attend service at their Houston church in June. José is a devout Christian, finding solace in his faith while his wife was detained.

Margarita Avila, a Houston mother of nine, was detained by ICE after an altercation that led to no charges. Her close-knit family weigh their futures if she is deported.

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Health insurance carriers request raising ACA premiums by more than 20% on average in Texas https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/21/texas-health-insurance-premiums-aca-tax-credit-expiration/ Thu, 21 Aug 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/21/texas-health-insurance-premiums-aca-tax-credit-expiration/ Dr. Spencer R. Berthelsen visits with patient Francisco Garcia, a fellow physician, before his annual physical at their clinic in Sugar Land on Sept. 22, 2011.

Health insurers are hiking policy premiums in response to proposed federal cuts and rising costs in various parts of the health care sector.

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Texas students’ STAAR scores for this year are out. Here’s how your school or district did. https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/16/texas-staar-scores-lookup/ Sat, 16 Aug 2025 20:58:11 +0000 https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/16/texas-staar-scores-lookup/ Austin Voices for Education and Youth, hosts a summer camp at the Dobie Middle School for students that attend the three Austin ISD schools at risk of closure.

Test scores rose slightly after math scores previously fell last year.

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Texas released two years of A-F ratings for schools and districts. See how yours did. https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/15/texas-a-f-school-district-accountability-ratings-lookup/ Fri, 15 Aug 2025 19:55:29 +0000 https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/15/texas-a-f-school-district-accountability-ratings-lookup/ The Texas Education Agency scores school districts and campuses in the state with a letter grade to give families an idea of how well they are performing. The agency released the ratings for the last two school years Friday.

In the 2024-25 school year, 14% of Texas school districts got an A, 71% got a B or a C, and 15% got a D or an F, new state data shows.

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Along Guadalupe River, more than a dozen summer camps have structures in flood zones https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/13/texas-hill-country-summer-camps-kerrville-floodplain/ Wed, 13 Aug 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/13/texas-hill-country-summer-camps-kerrville-floodplain/ Flood damage around a bridge in Hunt on July 5, 2025.

Most of the camps were built decades ago, before modern modeling and flood maps. Counties have little power to regulate construction flood plains.

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Texas buys land for new state parks that will be developed using $1 billion voter-approved fund https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/28/new-texas-state-parks-centennial-land-funding/ Mon, 28 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/28/new-texas-state-parks-centennial-land-funding/ Texas Parks and Wildlife Department biologists and staff use an anode, an electrical rod that temporarily stuns fish, during an aquatic sampling at Yancey Creek.

The fund opens a new era of public land acquisition and park development for Texas, which ranks 35th nationally in state park acreage per capita.

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Texas hospitals, clinics spared the worst of GOP Medicaid cuts. An expected rise in the uninsured rate could change that. https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/24/texas-hospitals-clinics-federal-cuts-gop-megabill/ Thu, 24 Jul 2025 17:53:38 +0000 https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/24/texas-hospitals-clinics-federal-cuts-gop-megabill/ An American flag flies in front of Ralls Family Medicine in Ralls on Sept. 1, 2022.

Texas clinics, in particular, are worried about their ability to meet patient needs once people begin losing insurance under changes from Republicans’ recent megabill.

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1.7 million Texans could lose health coverage under expiring tax credits, ACA changes in GOP megabill https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/18/texas-health-coverage-loss-trump-gop-megabill-affordable-care-act/ Fri, 18 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/18/texas-health-coverage-loss-trump-gop-megabill-affordable-care-act/ The nurse’s office at the Ector County Youth Center on Friday, Nov. 8, 2024, in Odessa.

Having never expanded Medicaid, Texas avoided most of the looming federal cuts other states will face. But the Affordable Care Act is a different story.

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These graphics show the scope of Texas’ Hill Country floods https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/09/hill-country-texas-flooding-2025-graphics/ Wed, 09 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/09/hill-country-texas-flooding-2025-graphics/

These maps and charts show the scale and intensity of the Hill Country floods and highlight Camp Mystic’s proximity to high-risk flood zones.

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