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Kansas-Texas transplant. Editor-in-Chief @TexasObserver. Tips: bova@texasobserver.org, or DM for Signal. Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/gusbov…
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Gus Bova 🗒️ @gusbova
Further personal/professional news: I am now the Editor-in-Chief of the @TexasObserver.

My entire journalism career has taken place here, as I've learned from all who've come & gone from this little magazine. Thank you to all the colleagues & sources who helped me along the way
Gus Bova 🗒️ @gusbova Feb 29, 2024
Personal/professional news: Effective today, I am the Interim Editor-in-Chief of the @TexasObserver.

For now, this is a three-month position. This comes on the heels of losing three editorial staff as the Observer invests in its business team.
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Gus Bova 🗒️ @gusbova
I have to check through the technicalities here, but I think the amendment on the ballot would have to make clear it was only for the purpose of the world's most progressive income tax.

Like basically Elon Musk pays $100B and everyone else $0. I think that could pass
Forrest Wilder @Forrest4Trees 6h
What a laughable, lazy take. Whether good policy or not, a state income tax is a complete non-starter. You would have to change the state constitution, which requires a two-thirds vote in each chamber of the Lege and voter approval. Ain’t gonna happen.
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Post-Blexas, will we see the Lege and TDCJ increase investment in drug treatment?

texasobserver.org/surge-prison-o… See quote in story from @BorrisLMiles
www.texasobserver.org Despite Surge in Prison Overdoses, State Agency Requests No New Treatment Funding “Funding drug interdiction alone is a misguided approach,” one state senator told the Observer. “The state must also address the ongoing problem of addiction in our prison system through treatment...
Gus Bova 🗒️ @gusbova 6h
We've had some trouble lately with other outlets not doing this, so want to shout out @HoustonChron @Dexinvestigates for acknowledging @MichellePitcher reporting in their new story about TDCJ overdose crisis: houstonchronicle.com/news/investiga…
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