The top local stories this afternoon from KERA News: For the second night in a row, protestors go together in Dallas to speak against the election of Donald Trump. About 300 people gathered last night at Dealey Plaza in Dallas.
Other stories this afternoon:
Straight-ticket ballots — where voters choose parties instead of individual candidates — accounted for almost 64 percent of total votes cast in the state’s 10 biggest counties this year, according to the Texas Tribune.
In an election dominated by Republicans, there were only a few scattered bright spots for Democrats this week. One of them happened in Dallas County -- political rookie Victoria Neave upended a Republican incumbent, Kenneth Sheets, in Texas’ most expensive state House race. She sat down with KERA’s Rick Holter for this week’s Friday Conversation.
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