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From The Reporter’s Notebook
University of Texas at Austin won’t implement campus carry until August 2016, but Texans are continuing to voice their opposition to bringing guns into buildings on the Austin campus. The laws passed the Texas legislature and were signed into law in June, but the university has yet to announce how its campus (and the UT system at large) will implement the new laws. TPM’s Caitlin Cruz says it would behoove the university to get this information to the public as soon as possible because the university system is taking heat for the legislature’s decision. UT is losing the battle of public opinion on guns on campus—even if the legal decision wasn’t up to them.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “Hillary is definitly someone who’s worked hard to become a better candidate than she was in 2008, and had she not been running against Obama, almost certainly would have been the nominee, but she’s not owed the spot. She’s been running a simply dreadful campaign, thus far, and if she doesn’t improve a great deal, she’s going to get her clock cleaned, come November. I don’t think any of the other candidates running on the Democratic side are going to beat her in the primaries. She’s built a colossus of a campaign, but come the general, she’s going to run against someone as well funded and deeply staffed as she is, and she’ll need to do better than she’s doing now.”
Related: Hillary Clinton turned down an offer to appear on Colbert’s premiere.
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What We’re Reading
An NBA player whose leg was broken in a struggle with NYPD could barely crack the headlines in 2015. (The Guardian)
Many New Yorkers think inequality is a problem the government can’t solve. (WNYC)
Clinton and Sanders are pandering to liberals with a big myth about prisons. (Vox)
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