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Kerrville rallies to help injured girl through Benefit Concert
By Louis Amestoy at Kerrville Daily Times, August 10, 2020 When Russell Nemky heard about what happened to Arianna Lopez he knew he had to do something to help, but what? On Thursday night, Kerrville police said a suspected drunken driver lost control of his pickup truck at a high rate of speed, heading west
Leaked COVID-19 Data Shows Worse than Misleading
By Doug Badger and Amy Anderson at the The Daily Signal, August 5, 2020; Updated August 10, 2020 What’s the No. 1 coronavirus hot spot in America? Is it Los Angeles County, which led the nation with nearly 200,000 confirmed cases on Aug. 2, according to Johns Hopkins University? Is it Miami-Dade County, Florida, which ranked second
Texas sales tax collections went up in July — and were higher than one year ago
Texas collected $2.98 billion in sales tax revenue in July — 4.3% more than in July 2019. Comptroller Glenn Hegar said the number was "better than expected."
U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, a mask skeptic, tests positive for coronavirus
Gohmert, 66, said in a televised interview that he wonders if he may have caught the virus from wearing his mask. Medical experts, however, overwhelmingly recommend masks as a means of preventing the virus.
Circle B Ranch, RR 335 on the Nueces River — Landing Strip Construction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Goh3NsM0ywY Over 28,000 lbs. of explosives as part of a planned landing strip construction. Call the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department (TPWD) or Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for more information or concerns.
Cleanup from Hanna spurs fear amid COVID-19 surge in Texas
By John L. Mone and Juan A. Lozano Associated Press at Fredericksburg News, July 27, 2020 WESLACO, Texas (AP) — As recovery and cleanup efforts got underway Monday in South Texas in the wake of a downgraded Hanna, worried residents confronted the prospect of undertaking the effort amid a surge in coronavirus cases that has
Texas ranchers, activists, and local officials are bracing for megadroughts brought by climate change
Photo by Allie Goulding By Meena Venkataramanan at Texas Tribune, July 27, 2020 Arthur Uhl III has been ranching for 30 years and routinely has the same lament: “It doesn’t rain enough.” Uhl, who works on his family’s San Angelo-area ranches, needs the rain to grow the grass that feeds his livestock. But in a
Hanna brings flooding, power outages to southern Texas Gulf Coast
Photo by Courtney Sacco By Alana Rocha, Mitchell Ferman, and Juan Pablo Garnham at Texas Tribune, July 24, 2020 Texans in the Rio Grande Valley and along the Coastal Bend continued to face the impact of now-Tropical Storm Hanna on Sunday. The storm, which made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane Saturday evening at Padre Island, packed sustained
As school reopenings falter, some Texas parents hire private teachers. Others can only afford to cross their fingers.
With the safe reopening of schools this fall in doubt, parents with the resources are setting up "learning pods" or seeking other options. But the do-it-yourself approach to education threatens to leave behind students of color and poorer families.
3 members of Thin Blue Line Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club killed, 9 Injured in Kerr County accident
Members of the Thin Blue Line Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club were out for a ride when an allegedly drunk driver crossed lanes and hit them head on
Texas’ Roadside Peach Stands Report Plenty of Fruit and Brisk Business
Despite pandemic concerns and winter setbacks, orchards see no shortage of customers or sweet fruit
Texas hospitals are running out of drugs, beds, ventilators and even staff
Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr. By Edgar Walters, Shannon Najmabadi, and Emma Platoff at Texas Tribune, July 14, 2020 A coronavirus patient in Anahuac was flown by helicopter to a hospital in El Campo — 120 miles away — because closer facilities could not take him. Ambulances are waiting up to 10 hours to deliver
