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From The Newsroom: Ebola Task Force Meets, Lt. Governor Ads Target Education

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The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

Health commissioner David Lakey spoke at the first public hearing of the governor’s Ebola Task Force in Austin. He said most hospitals still can’t handle Ebola patients, and infected people should be treated at specialized care centers. And In the race for Lieutenant Governor, education takes center stage in the latest series of ads for the two state senators jockeying for the job. 

You can listen to the top local news stories weekdays at 6:20 p.m. and 8:20 a.m. on KERA 90.1 FM.

Courtney Collins has been working as a broadcast journalist since graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 2004. Before coming to KERA in 2011, Courtney worked as a reporter for NPR member station WAMU in Washington D.C. While there she covered daily news and reported for the station’s weekly news magazine, Metro Connection.