TribCast: Power and influence under the pink dome

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The TribCast gang donned cowboy hats to ring in the first week of the Texas legislative session and dig into what the fireworks from the first day back say about who’s really in charge in Austin this year. Co-hosts James Barragán, Eleanor Klibanoff and Matthew Watkins sat down with Texas Tribune co-founder and former executive editor Ross Ramsey to discuss the contentious, but relatively quick, vote for House speaker, Dan Patrick’s clapback in the Senate, and why having more money may not mean more problems for the legislature.

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