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From The Newsroom: Scenes From A Protest, Mayors Talk City Government Power

Doualy Xaykaothao
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KERA News

The top local stories this evening from the KERA Newsroom:

Hear reaction to the fraternity scandal at the University of Oklahoma from protestors and residents in a northwest Dallas neighborhood.

And Texas cities have banned everything from plastic bags, to fracking to texting while driving. And that has some state lawmakers wondering if local governments are overstepping their bounds.

See video of Evan Smith of The Texas Tribune talking with Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price and Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings about governing a city without running afoul of the state.

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.