Shannon Najmabadi, The Texas Tribune
Shannon Najmabadi is the higher education reporter at The Texas Tribune.
Texas Veterans Homes Overseen by George P. Bush Were Often the Deadliest Places to...
Mary Kay Dieterich was encouraged last year when Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush promised to shake up the management of the El Paso...
Texas Lawmakers Split over How Long to Extend Medicaid Health Coverage for New Mothers
Texas mothers on Medicaid could keep their health coverage for half a year after giving birth, instead of just two months, under a bill...
Feds Rescind Health Care Funding Agreement That Would Have Covered Care for Uninsured, Poor...
The Biden Administration on Friday rescinded approval of changes to afederal funding agreement, known as a 1115 waiver, that would have extended for 10...
First Texas Case of More Contagious Coronavirus Variant Identified in Harris County
The first known case of a new and possibly more contagious coronavirus strain has been reported in Texas, in an adult male resident of...
Eight months into the pandemic, this women’s health clinic in rural Texas struggles to...
BROWNWOOD — Women come from more than one hundred miles away to Building 35 in a red brick public housing project in rural Brown...
COVID-19 vaccines may be coming soon, but most Texans won’t get them for months....
FALFURRIAS — After 8 a.m. on a fall Friday, a 31-foot white van drove down pockmarked streets, passed a public housing complex and pulled...
Local Health Authority Resigns in Texas Border County Battered by Coronavirus
The top doctor advising Starr County on local health policy resigned abruptly Monday, leaving a key position temporarily vacant in a rural border community...
Texas Lifts Tampon Ban at Bar Exam After Complaints Over Discriminatory Policy
Tampons and pads are no longer contraband at the upcoming bar exam for aspiring lawyers in Texas.
Pausing a practice that critics called retrograde and...
These “Last Responders” Deal With the Bodies As Coronavirus Deaths Surge in the Rio...
Reporting and writing by Shannon Najmabadi, photography by Miguel Gutierrez Jr.
McALLEN—Juan Lopez is in the ambulance bay of a McAllen hospital, zipping a gauzy...
Want a Coronavirus Test in Texas? You May Have to Wait for Hours in...
By 8 a.m. Friday, the line of cars waiting at an Austin coronavirus test site snaked out of the parking lot and down the...
