Community News 39
Real County Historical Commission Meeting Senior Citizen’s Center
Guest Speaker Pam HawesLeakey, Texas September 14 at 2:00 p.m. Mark your calendar and save this date. Invite your friends and family to attend. Pam Hawes will share with us the history, the current local, state, and national community participation, and future plans about the H. E. Butt Foundation Camp on the Frio River north […]
Texas schools with more student poverty got the most Ds and Fs in state ratings
High school students walk to their next class after the bell rings at Elsik Ninth Grade Center in Houston on March 28, 2018. Image credit: Pu Ying Huang At the same time, hundreds of high-poverty schools received A grades, including many in South Texas. Those are just some of the takeaways from this year’s ratings. By Aliyya […]
Texas’ Driver Responsibility Program ends next month. Here’s what that means for you.
People wait at a driver license reclamation clinic in Austin on June 22, 2018. More than 600,000 Texans who lost their driver’s licenses through the Driver Responsibility Program will be immediately eligible to have them reinstated on Sept. 1. Image credit: Rachel Zein for The Texas Tribune More than 600,000 Texans will immediately be eligible to have […]
Shouldn’t there be a law against reckless opioid sales? Turns out, there is.
Protests and lawsuits against opioid manufacturers are growing more common, but drug distributors are also facing scrutiny. AP Photo/Charles Krupa Nicolas Paul Terry, IUPUI The massive scale of prescription opioid shipments as the ongoing overdose epidemic unfolded has started to come into focus. Drug companies shipped 76 billion opioid pain pills to U.S. health care […]
Texas vaccine exemption rates
In Texas, parents can get their children exemptions from the vaccines required to attend public and private schools for "reasons of conscience." Use our lookup tool to see how exemption rates have changed in school districts and private schools across the state.
Donald Trump called for “strong background checks” after El Paso shooting. He then blamed the media.
In a pair of Monday morning tweets, the president suggested "marrying" immigration reform to background check legislation.
El Paso says Donald Trump still owes $569,204 for his February rally
The city attempted to charge him $470,417.05 for services related to his February rally and tacked on late fees after he didn’t pay.
From across the globe to El Paso, changes in the language of the far-right explain its current violence
Law enforcement officers walking to the scene of a shooting at a shopping mall in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2019. AP/Rudy Gutierrez Arie Perliger, University of Massachusetts Lowell The recent shooting attack in which a young white man is accused of killing 22 people in a Walmart in El Paso fits a […]
How fireflies glow – and what signals they’re sending
A firefly’s light is part of its mating strategy. Japan’s Fireworks/Shutterstock.com Clyde Sorenson, North Carolina State University You might not really be sure you saw what you think you saw when the first one shows up. But you stare in the direction of the flicker of light and there it is again – the first […]
U.S. Rep. Al Green’s third attempt to impeach Trump falls flat
The Houston Democrat has repeatedly bucked party leadership by pushing impeachment. But the lone-wolf move failed once again Wednesday.
