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Texas Tribune Daily Brief
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| The Brief for May 1 |  | In today’s Brief: A look at the increasingly expensive tab Texas colleges are running to recruit athletes, and the state’s attorney general waded into another local control fight.
Cassi Pollock , Texas Tribune 05/01/2018    | | Read Article: Texas Tribune |
| Children who Play Football Before Age 12 Show CTE-Related Symptoms Much Sooner | | A new study published in Annals of Neurology found kids who start playing tackle football before age 12 will, on average, develop cognitive and emotional symptoms associated with the degenerative brain disease CTE much earlier than those who start later. The study looked at the brains of 246 deceased amateur and professional football players. Two-hundred-eleven of them had the degenerative brain disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, which can be caused by repetitive hits to the head.
CBS NEWS, KHOU-TV 05/01/2018 | | Read Article: KHOU-TV |
Editorials/Columns/Letters
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| Sixel: Too Often, Safety Advances in Offshore Industry Grew From Tragedy | | The offshore energy industry has spent the past half-century pushing into deeper and deeper waters, using ever-advancing technologies to find oil and gas thousands of feet below the ocean’s surface and produce millions of barrels a day in the most challenging conditions. But these advances have come at the cost of hundreds of lives and billions of dollars in property, financial and environmental losses. And it has often taken tragedies, followed by litigation, government fines and bad public relations, to spur companies to improve safety, legal and safety specialists and worker’s advocates said.
L.M. Sixel, Houston Chronicle 05/01/2018 | | Read Article: Houston Chronicle |
| Investigation: "Workers Comp Wants Me Dead" | | Just a year ago, Ronny Cortez was shot multiple times while he and other officers looked for burglary suspects in a southwest Houston neighborhood. Now, as the story fades from recent memory, he's not sure the city's worker compensation system remembers how much he's sacrificed. And he is tired of watching his wife fight for his basic care.
Ted Oberg, KTRK-TV 05/01/2018 | | Read Article: KTRK-TV |
| VA Hospital Investigating After Tweets of 'Unsanitary' Room | | A Veterans Affairs clinic in Salt Lake City is investigating why an Army veteran was put in a room with an overflowing trash can and medical supplies strewn about after the man's father tweeted images of the unclean space. Stephen Wilson, the father of Christopher Wilson who spent six years in the Army and was deployed to Iraq twice, posted the photos to Twitter on Friday, calling the sight "very unprofessional, unsanitary and disrespectful," the Deseret News reported.
Associated Press, Yahoo News 05/01/2018 | | Read Article: Yahoo News |
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