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Episode 209: A Natural State

Coal PlantAs the population Texas expands, the demand on water and power grows even faster.  Can Texas's natural resources keep up? Environmental groups, cities, and power companies all have competing interests, but who will influence the legislative agenda? (airing week of April 1st)

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Panelists:

Emily Ramshaw

Emily Ramshaw grew up in a family of journalists in Washington , D.C. After graduating from Northwestern University in 2003, she moved to the last place on earth her relatives thought she'd go-- Texas-- to work for The Dallas Morning News. She spent three years covering politics at Dallas City Hall before the paper moved her to Austin, where she now covers everything from criminal justice to environmental issues at the legislature.

Ross Ramsey

Ross Ramsey is the editor of Texas Weekly, the premier newsletter on government and politics in the Lone Star State . Before taking the reins at Texas Weekly in September 1998, Ramsey was Associate Deputy Comptroller for Policy with the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. He also did time as the agency's Director of Communications and as Executive Assistant to then-Comptroller John Sharp. Prior to that 28-month stint in government, Ramsey spent 17 years in journalism, reporting for the Houston Chronicle and the Dallas Times Herald and, as a Dallas-based freelance business writer, for a number of regional and national magazines and newspapers. He also worked for seven years in broadcasting, covering news for radio stations in Denton and Dallas .  Texas Weekly, in continuous publication since 1984, has become a favored and trusted source of information for Texas officeholders, lobbyists, political financiers, reporters and other political junkies from Humble, Texas, to the White House.

Sam Gwynne

Sam Gwynne joined Texas Monthly as an executive editor in June of 2000. Prior to that, he was Austin bureau chief for Time magazine, responsible for its coverage of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and the Mexico border. He moved to Austin in 1994 from Time’s headquarters in New York where he was a senior editor in charge of the business section. He first joined Time in 1988 as a correspondent in the Los Angeles bureau covering California and the western states. He was later Detroit bureau chief and national economics correspondent in Time’s Washington, D.C., bureau. Gwynne was co-author of Time’s first cover story on George W. Bush. Subjects of his Texas Monthly stories include Tom Craddick, Karl Rove, terrorism in Houston, and Big Bend.


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