From The Newsroom: Inauguration Day, Impact Of In-State Tuition

KERA | By Courtney Collins

Published January 20, 2015 at 6:37 PM CST

The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

As of Tuesday, Texas has a new governor. Greg Abbott was sworn into office in Austin. He’s the state’s first new chief executive in 14 years. Texas also has a new lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick, who will oversee the state Senate.

We also look at the impact of the Texas DREAM Act.

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

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.

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