Name: How Powerful Is The Texas Governor Compared To Other State Governors? by KUT News
Duration: 2 min 57 s
Description: KUT's Jennifer Stayton and Senior Editor Ben Philpott break down how much power the Texas governor can wield within the state's legislative process.

A recording of the state’s top utility regulator that caused him to lose his job. Plus, bills in the Texas legislature that seek to undo what local election officials did to try to make voting safe during the pandemic. And how some farmers are trying to get by after the winter storm decimated local farms. Those stories and more in this edition of KUT Weekend!

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March 19, 2021

New challenges in the rush to get people vaccinated: unfilled appointments! Plus, renters still stuck in limbo after their homes were damaged by the February winter storm. And how librarians are using the outdoors to get kids reading together again. Those stories and more in this edition of KUT Weekend!

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KUT Weekend - April 16, 2021

The idea that money doesn't make you happy is easy to get behind if you have  it, but if you don't you it's a hard one to buy into (pun intended). Yet the correlation to money and happiness is more complicated then one might think.

In this edition of Two Guys on Your Head Dr. Art Markman and Dr. Bob Duke explain the relationship between money, security, opportunity and happiness. 

Two Guys on Your Head: Money and Happiness

KUT's Jennifer Stayton and Senior Editor Ben Philpott break down how much power the Texas governor can wield within the state's legislative process.

How Powerful Is The Texas Governor Compared To Other State Governors?

An afternoon of stimulating talks, readings and performances focusing on the profound political and economic changes taking place in different parts of the globe and the forms of popular resistance to those changes.

Award-winning poet Mona Arshi read new and recent poems including from her moving and intimate poetry collection, Small Hands. Keynote speeches will be given by playwright and commentator David Edgar and essayist and novelist Pankaj Mishra, followed by an open discussion chaired by Gilane Tawadros, the Vice-Chair of Stuart Hall Foundation.

The First Stuart Hall Public Conversation 3rd Feb 2018

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How Powerful Is The Texas Governor Compared To Other State Governors?

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