Abbott: Focusing on job growth, property tax relief, school choice & border
After winning a third term in office, Republican Governor Greg Abbott said he's continuing to focus on economic growth in Texas.
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Jack is as passionate about reporting today as he was when he first began his broadcast journalism career about 35 years ago.
He covers politics for CBS News Texas and hosts the weekly show Eye On Politics, which airs at 7:30 Sunday morning on CBS News Texas Channel 11 and is streamed through the CBS News app and Pluto TV at the same time.
Jack joined CBS News Texas in September 2003.
He regularly interviews Republican and Democratic elected officials, and interviewed Joe Biden when he ran for President in 2020 and former President Donald Trump in 2018 and when he was a candidate in 2016.
While Jack loves covering politics, he has also worked on investigative stories and covered numerous hurricanes and tornado outbreaks.
He won an Emmy Award for his investigative report on DFW Airport spending, and Texas Associated Press awards for his stories about the previous indictments against former Governor Rick Perry, his coverage of the federal courts in Dallas and his weather coverage.
Before moving to North Texas, Jack reported for television stations in Orlando, Southern California, Fort Myers-Naples and Utica, New York.
He began his journalism career in Syracuse, where he was an anchor and reporter at WHEN-AM.
Jack has been happily married for more than 30 years to Amy, who is a former morning news anchor at radio station KLIF-AM in Dallas. They are the proud parents of two amazing daughters.
Jack and Amy both graduated from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.
While they still bleed Orange, they love Texas and are happy to call the Lone Star State home.
After winning a third term in office, Republican Governor Greg Abbott said he's continuing to focus on economic growth in Texas.
Rent, gas prices, electricity and food prices are climbing. It's impacting just about everyone, especially seniors and the working class.
Jack Fink breaks down the lagging early voting numbers in North Texas and talks to Sen. Ted Cruz about both this election and 2024
The number of people voting in the four largest counties in North Texas has plummeted from four years ago.
On Nov. 2, Democratic candidate for Texas Attorney General Rochelle Garza campaigned in McKinney, which is home turf for two-term incumbent Republican Ken Paxton.
Tarrant County is the largest Republican County in Texas and perhaps the country, and Republicans here want to keep it that way.
The number of people in our four largest counties who've cast their ballots during the first four days of early voting has dropped by nearly 175,000 people compared to the same time during the midterm election four years ago.
With early voting underway across Texas, the latest episode of Eye on Politics (original air date: Oct. 27) focuses on turnout so far and the candidates' last-minute pushes to get out the vote.
Sitting face to face with some of the parents and relatives of the Uvalde elementary school students gunned down, the Texas DPS Director insisted he won't resign despite their repeated demands.
With early voting in full swing, Republican Governor Greg Abbott and his Democratic opponent Beto O'Rourke are urging their supporters to get to the polls.
Gov. Greg Abbott and Beto O'Rourke hit the campaign trails on the first day of early voting in Texas.
Texas Republicans are taking the lead in a new UT Austin-Texas Politics Project poll.
In this episode, Jack takes a look at the efforts by both gubernatorial candidates to focus on the Latino community.
Important dates and races you should be aware of if you plan on voting Nov. 8
Records obtained by CBS 11 show more people have died in wrong-way crashes in Dallas County so far this year than all of last year and each year before that going back to 2017.