Wade Goodwyn
Wade Goodwyn is an NPR National Desk Correspondent covering Texas and the surrounding states.
Reporting since 1991, Goodwyn has covered a wide range of issues, from mass shootings and hurricanes to Republican politics. Whatever it might be, Goodwyn covers the national news emanating from the Lone Star State.
Though a journalist, Goodwyn really considers himself a storyteller. He grew up in a Southern storytelling family and tradition, he considers radio an ideal medium for narrative journalism. While working for a decade as a political organizer in New York City, he began listening regularly to WNYC, which eventually led him to his career as an NPR reporter.
In a recent profile, Goodwyn's voice was described as being "like warm butter melting over BBQ'd sweet corn." But he claims, dubiously, that his writing is just as important as his voice.
Goodwyn is a graduate of the University of Texas with a degree in history. He lives in Dallas with his famliy.
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The organization ignored decades of sex abuse allegations, but it could now pay the price. More than 88,000 men say they were abused as Scouts, ahead of Monday's deadline to file a claim.
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More than 60,000 men say they were sexually abused when they were Boy Scouts, and the allegations could threaten the very existence of the iconic 110-year-old institution.
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As Election Day nears, polls suggest Texas might be in play for Democratic nominee Joe Biden. Turning Texas blue has been a dream for Democrats. NPR discusses if this dream could become reality.
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It won't be easy or quick for people in southern Louisiana to recover from the devastation of this week's deadly Hurricane Laura.
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"It tore the brick off, it tore the roof off, it lifted the truck by its roof. I mean, it tore everything. I have a skylight in my truck right now," a fire department official said. -
More than a half century after the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s, there remains little tradition of protest in East Texas, and scant experience with organizing. -
The Civil Rights Movement has largely passed East Texas by — the region has no tradition of protest. Now, protesters have to build a brand new construction in the wake of George Floyd's death.
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Gov. Greg Abbott has addressed protests in Texas on Tuesday. Police there have come under fire — in Dallas for using tear gas on peaceful protesters and in Austin for using rubber bullets.
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Texas's Republican leadership has to face budget options that seemed sacrilegious just a few months ago, as oil prices and the coronavirus pandemic wreak havoc on state finances.
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The latest weekly state unemployment figures have been published on Thursday — more than three more million people are out of work.
