Ashley Lopez
Senior Reporter, Health Care and PoliticsAshley Lopez joined KUT in January 2016. She covers politics and health care. Previously she worked as a reporter at public radio stations in Louisville, Ky.; Miami and Fort Myers, Fla., where she won a National Edward R. Murrow Award. She earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism and political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
You can email her at alopez@kut.org.
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Según el Estado, el 12.87% de los votos por correo demócratas fueron rechazados, y el 11.77% de los republicanos. -
According to the state, 12.87% of Democratic mail-in ballots were rejected, and 11.77% of Republican ballots were rejected.
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Los activistas afirman que el salario base de los asistentes comunitarios debe aumentar de 8,11 a 15 dólares la hora. Pero el cambio de ese salario depende de los legisladores estatales. -
Groups say the base pay for community attendants needs to increase from $8.11 to $15 an hour. But changing that pay is up to state lawmakers.
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Oklahoma’s law would go a step further and ban abortions after conception. -
Las autoridades sanitarias dijeron que vigilarán de cerca los posibles contagios tras las vacaciones de primavera, pero el uso de mascarillas es ahora en gran medida opcional en la zona de Austin. -
Health officials said they will closely monitor possible infections following spring break, but masking is now largely optional in the Austin area.
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Perhaps most notably, Harris County rejected a whopping 19% percent of the mail ballots it received, or 6,888 ballots in total. Four years ago the county's rejection rate was about 0.3%. -
En el condado de Travis, unos 11,200 votantes enviaron sus votos por correo, pero alrededor del 8% de ellos fueron rechazados. -
Local election officials say a higher percentage of voters than normal had their ballots rejected because of ID issues.
