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Part One: Our weekly update from the Lone Star State with Scott Braddock, editor of the Quorum Report. Topics include: family separation at the border, Ken Paxton’s DACA lawsuit, business opposes, red flag laws, Dan Patrick, Governor Abbot, Cruz v. Beto debates – and what’s up with Ted trying to schedule them during Friday night high school football? (HS football is a big thing in Texas) There’s more!
Part Two: We speak with Marshall Allen from ProPublica about his piece, “Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You – and it Could Raise Your Rates.” Data mining companies are using social media to gather information about all of us, and selling it to insurance companies. The practice, the ramifications – and what Marshall discovered when trying to access his own data – this is an important and compelling story.
