Marissa Evans, Texas Tribune
Marissa Evans reports on health and human service policy issues for the Tribune and has been in Austin since October 2016. Before the Tribune she reported for CQ Roll Call in D.C. where she covered state legislatures and health care issues. Her reporting has appeared in Civil Eats, NBC BLK, Cosmo for Latinas, Kaiser Health News, The Seattle Times, The Washington Post, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The Star Tribune and Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service. She is a 2013 alumna of Marquette University in Milwaukee. When not reporting, she is teaching herself how to code, re-perfecting her chocolate chip cookie recipe, searching for food spots that rival her mother鈥檚 cooking, exploring museums, catching up on books and watching documentaries.
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Nearly 200 immigrants are suffering from mumps at detention facilities across Texas, according to a state health agency.The Texas Department of State鈥� -
Idaho, Maine, Nebraska and Utah voters approved a Medicaid expansion through ballot initiatives. Now Texas legislators have filed bills for a vote over鈥� -
The next vaccine fight could be coming to a day care near you. Texans for Vaccine Choice, a group focused on anti-vaccine policy, says it has received鈥� -
Editor's note: this story has been updated throughoutA U.S. Border Patrol agent has been accused of going on a nearly two-week-long 鈥渟erial killing spree鈥濃�� -
U.S. District Judge David Alan Ezra struck down a Texas law on Wednesday that would have required hospitals and clinics to bury or cremate fetal remains,鈥� -
Only one word comes to mind looking at photos that employees at the Texas Department of State Health Services in Austin took of gray, green and brown-hued鈥� -
State and reproductive rights attorneys are going head to head again in federal court on Monday to argue whether Texas should require health providers to鈥� -
Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading Texas into a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma for exacerbating the opioid crisis among Texans.In an announcement鈥� -
Tracy Ryans got mail 鈥� straight from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, including a box full of state assistance application forms with鈥� -
Texas served thousands more people in its women鈥檚 health and family planning programs last year compared to the year before. But it鈥檚 impossible to say if鈥� -
Texas鈥� second attempt to require health providers to bury or cremate fetal remains has been temporarily thwarted by a federal judge and another court鈥� -
A federal judge has ruled Texas will continue to need oversight of how it cares for vulnerable children, even after sweeping legislative changes last鈥�
