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Associate Professor of Practice & Innovation Director, UT-Austin School of Journalism and Media. Past: @statesman, @ajc. I love soccer & heavy metal.
LAREDO - Abigail Martinez was expecting her first child. It was a girl, and she'd already chosen a name: Natalia. She was due the day after Christmas, but she said her obstetrician suggested inducing labor a week early because he might not be available around the holiday. Martinez agreed.
LAREDO - Linda Martinez had been in labor for more than 24 hours when, she said, her doctor told her, "We're going to cut you a little bit." Her obstetrician at Doctors Hospital of Laredo was about to perform an episiotomy - an incision made with surgical scissors through the vaginal opening to widen the birth canal and hasten delivery.
The biggest risk factor is not a mom's personal preference or even her risks, but which hospital she goes to.
Analysis of the Texas Inpatient Public Use Data File
A QUESTION OF The American-Statesman spent six months analyzing a previously unscrutinized set of fatal Texas encounters: those in which a person was taken into police custody and ended up dead. Many of the deaths occurred in a gray zone, where a combination of physical struggle, surging adrenaline and police tactics produced fatal results.
Last year, the Austin American-Statesman used the Public Information Act to request complete stop, search and contraband data from the Texas Department of Public Safety, going back to 2009. The department supplied almost 15 million stop records spread over multiple databases, which we had to clean and combine into a single database we could analyze.
How Texas missed deadly patterns and key pieces of information that could have helped protect vulnerable children. In 2009, the Legislature ordered Child Protective Services to publicly record every abuse- and neglect-related death in the state in hopes of identifying patterns and discovering ways to prevent abuse deaths.
By Jeremy Schwartz and Dan Hill / Published October 21, 2016 In Texas, Latino representation on county boards has stagnated over the past two decades Hispanic underrepresentation is felt at higher levels: local positions often first steps to state, national office Isabel García has learned to fear "la playa" - the beach.
As greater Austin booms, the poisonous legacy of segregation continues to cut off the African-American population from economic opportunities and its own cultural anchors, threatening the whole region's potential. Read the American-Statesman's three-part series below. A SEPARATED CITY As Austin grows, the African-American share of the city's population is declining, and minorities face poverty and isolation more than their white counterparts.