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Top Stories: Fort Worth Musicians Vote On Ending Strike; Border Tales Told Through Art

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The top local stories this afternoon from KERA News:

Musicians with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra are voting on a tentative contract agreement worked out with federal mediation help, though details of the tentative deal haven’t been announced. The musicians went on strike in early September after more than a year of contract talks with symphony management, and had wanted a pay raise after taking cuts under the last contract. 

Other stories this afternoon:

  • The Dallas City Council was briefed on Wednesday about a potential fix for the city’s ailing Police and Fire Pension fund, which could go broke in as soon as a decade without any changes. The proposed plan targets some of the fund’s most generous benefits. 

  • Throughout the 2016 presidential election, security along the U.S.’s 2,000 mile border with Mexico played a substantial role in President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign. But on the border, where a portion of that wall is already built, politics can seem a world away. Art&Seek’s Hady Mawajdeh shows us a new exhibition of photography and music that hopes to provide North Texas audiences a new perspective on that dividing line.

You can listen to North Texas stories weekdays at 8:22 a.m. and 6:20 p.m. on KERA 90.1 FM.