Ashley Lopez
Ashley Lopez joined KUT in January 2016. She covers politics and health care, and is part of the NPR-Kaiser Health News reporting collaborative. Previously she worked as a reporter at public radio stations in Louisville, Ky.; Miami and Fort Myers, Fla., where she won a National Edward R. Murrow Award.
Ashley was also part of NPR’s Political Reporting Partnership during the 2016 presidential election. She earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism and political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
You can email her at alopez@kut.org.
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The march starts in Georgetown and ends at the Texas Capitol on Saturday, where the groups will hold a rally on the south steps.
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Some Democrats have said it's ultimately Gov. Abbott's responsibility to restore the funding he chose to veto.
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Senate Bill 4 would limit the timeframe a person could get a medication abortion from 10 weeks into a pregnancy to seven weeks.
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While Democrats were in Washington, the Texas Senate passed Senate Bill 1, one of the sweeping voting bills House members are blocking from passage.
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Texas legislators have begun a special session, where they once again will consider a bill that could change how the state votes.
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The agency will work to eliminate health disparities in the state when it comes to race, ethnicity and geography, among other things.
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Lawmakers Improve Medicaid Access For Children And New Moms, But Fail To Expand Coverage To Lower-InAdvocates thought health care would be a top priority for the Legislature during a pandemic. For the most part it wasn't.
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Senate Bill 7 would have added restrictions to in-person voting and mail-in ballots and created a slew of new criminal penalties for voters and election workers in Texas.
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Under a bill signed into law by Gov. Abbott on Wednesday, private citizens can sue anyone who helps a woman get an abortion.
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As of May 2, state officials say more than 5% of people vaccinated have only gotten one of the two doses they need to be fully vaccinated.