MySA • September 6, 2024

Garth Brooks talks legacy, rising country stars ahead of ACL Hall of Fame

Garth Brooks is one of the most successful country music artists of all time. From the early 90s to today, his music has become multi-generational and now he's being honored in one of the first places where he got his start.

MySA • February 29, 2024

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Bloomberg News • August 7, 2023

Black Adults, Women Are Less Likely to Get Life-Saving Opioid Treatments in US

Black patients and women in the US are far less likely to receive medication to manage opioid abuse, according to research that shows how unequal access is to the life-saving treatments. White adults were 14 times more likely to receive medicine to combat opioid use disorder than Black adults, according to research released Monday in the JAMA Network Open medical journal.

Bloomberg News • August 1, 2023

e.l.f Raises Sales Outlook as it Lures Budget-Conscious Shoppers

E.l.f. Beauty Inc. hiked fiscal year sales and adjusted profit expectations as inflation-weary customers drive demand for its budget-conscious brand.

Bloomberg Technology • July 17, 2023

VC Spotlight: The Chicago Tech Scene (Produced Segment)

Chingona Ventures is a Chicago-based venture capital firm investing in pre-seed startups in financial technology, female technology, food technology, health/wellness, and future of learning. Founding Partner Samara Mejia Hernandez speaks about the importance of investing in overlooked growth markets. She joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Technology."

Bloomberg Technology • July 13, 2023

Black Tech Week to Create Change (Produced Segment)

Black Tech Week is about to kick off with more than 3,000+ anticipated attendees. After roots in Miami a decade ago, it was acquired by Lightship Capital in 2022 and moved to Cincinnati. Lighthouse founder and CEO Candice Matthews Brackeen and REVOLT CEO Detavio Samuels join Caroline Hyde to discuss the evolution of the event on "Bloomberg Technology."

Next Generation Radio Texas 2022 • September 9, 2022

Growing faith by gardening: How extreme temperatures are affecting a San Antonio veteran's garden

Clarence Prevo begins nearly every day by walking through his garden and talking to his plants. He asks for “the Lord’s blessing” and prays for a bountiful harvest. “He is the creator of all this,” said Prevo, 81. “Without Him, I wouldn’t be. Without Him, this wouldn’t be.”

Texas Standard • August 19, 2022

‘Being and becoming a fighter:’ A decade since DACA means no end in sight for Dreamers

It’s been ten years since the Obama administration created DACA – Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals – a program intended to give migrants who came to this country as children a chance to stay. But legal challenges to the program and inaction in Congress have kept DACA’s beneficiaries in limbo.

Texas Standard • August 9, 2022

‘It’s beautiful to be with my sisters’: The Tiarras seek to empower a generation through music

Tiffany, Sophia and Tori Baltierra of The Tiarras went viral on TikTok after posting their rendition of “La Negra Tomasa” by Caifanes in a psychedelic, cumbia guitar riff. The video garnered nearly 400,000 views and has since taken the Austin band’s fanbase to new heights.

Texas Standard • August 2, 2022

San Antonio’s ‘heat islands’ are disproportionately affecting low-income neighborhoods

San Antonio has seen over 50 days of 100-plus-degree weather so far this year and is likely to break the record for the most in a calendar year. While weathering the Texas heat continues to be an issue across the state, it’s proving to be especially difficult for low-income communities in San Antonio.

Texas Standard • July 29, 2022

New study details how extreme heat is affecting Texas prisons

Texas is one of 13 states in the U.S. that does not have universal air conditioning for its state prisons. Temperatures inside units have been shown to regularly reach 110 degrees, and at least one unit has topped 149 degrees.

Texas Standard • July 22, 2022

Texas State to offer Harry Styles history course in 2023

Harry Styles fans at Texas State University will soon be able to earn college credit for their love of the English pop star. Professor Louie Dean Valencia announced on Twitter Saturday that a new history course entitled, “Harry Styles and the Cult of Celebrity: Identity, the Internet, and European Pop Culture” will be offered as an in-person honors course at the university beginning in spring 2023.

Texas Standard • July 21, 2022

How to keep your garden going during a drought

Texas’ record heat wave and drought are making it especially difficult to keep plants alive and green in the summer. Last week’s scattered showers, helped revive some scorched floral and vegetable gardens, but the unforgiving temperatures are far from over.

KUT Radio, Austin's NPR Station • July 15, 2022

Documentary on deadly San Marcos apartment fire seeks to bring answers to victims’ families

Nearly four years ago, Brian Kyle “BK” Frizzell lost his sister, Haley Frizzell, and roommate David Angel Ortiz to a fire that was deliberately set at the Iconic Village Apartments in San Marcos. Haley, 19, was the youngest of five victims – along with Dru Estes, 20; Belinda Moats, 21; Ortiz, 21; and James Philip Miranda, 23 – who lost their lives on July 20, 2018.

Texas Standard • June 22, 2022

Texas State alumna debuts children’s book ‘celebrating the love of San Marcos’

San Marcos-based author and comedian Kelly Stone loved San Marcos from the day she visited Texas State University for cheerleader camp in the 90s. “I came to San Marcos for the first time in 1994 for cheerleader camp and fell in love,” she said. “And then I moved here in ’96 to attend, at the time, Southwest Texas State University.”

Texas Standard • June 14, 2022

‘An act of sacred resistance’: Dallas church self-appoints two LGBTQ pastors after bishop denies them positions

The issue of sexual orientation has long divided many Christian denominations. Last month, a more conservative branch of the United Methodist Church, or UMC, officially launched. The separation was based primarily on the UMC’s ordination and marriage of people who are LGBTQ.

Texas Standard • June 13, 2022

Why rising inflation is hitting retired Texas teachers especially hard

While inflation is hurting the wallets of many, retired Texas teachers are getting hit especially hard. The Teacher Retirement System, the state’s pension program for educators, does not adjust its pension payments for inflation, which can fluctuate the purchasing power of retired teachers.

Reporting Texas • May 24, 2022

Amid Population Decline, Rural Texas Towns Look to Future

Rocky paths, cracked sidewalks and the crumbling ruins of structures surround the Mexican-style plaza in the middle of downtown San Diego, about 130 miles due south of San Antonio. Most buildings are abandoned. The few that remain reveal the city’s history.

Reporting Texas • May 12, 2022

How a UT-Austin Program is Helping Students of Color Study Abroad

University of Texas at Austin radio-television-film graduate Justice Beverley grew up taking vacations around the country with his family in an RV. He often filmed the trips. He loved it. During UT freshman orientation in 2017, Beverley heard a presentation about the UT Division of Diversity and Community...

Reporting Texas • April 12, 2022

Will Texas A&M’s The Battalion Survive if it Loses its Independence?

In her senior year as an international studies major at Texas A&M, Myranda Campanella has climbed the ranks at the university’s student-run newspaper. Now, as she completes her final semester as editor-in-chief, she is helping to make a decision that will change The Battalion and student journalism at Texas A&M forever.