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Showing posts with label Texas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Texas. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 09, 2026

New World Screwworm enters the U.S.

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NWS infestations were discovered just days apart on calves that grazed roughly 5.6 miles from each another. ( Photo via Hoosier Ag News )  D...
Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Big Bend residents push against the ongoing border build-up the Trump administration is rushing to install

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Reeds and mesquite trees line the banks of the Rio Grande River as it flows through the western Texas region known as Big Bend. Residents of...
Friday, April 03, 2026

Telehealth hub addresses lack of care in rural Texas

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The Davis Mountain Clinic offers an exam room for patients.  (Photo by Carol Brewer, Daily Yonder) In the midst of rural West Texas, a shipp...
Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Rural voting posts bigger percentage than urban or metro in Texas primaries

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Graph by The Daily Yonder, from New York Times data Texas election primaries last week drew a big turnout, with a surprising number of rural...
Friday, February 27, 2026

Opinion: On the West Texas High Plains, a farm recession from closing cotton gins eats away at rural economies

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Part of a ginning business stands out on High Plains of West Texas.  (Floydada Co-op Gin photo) A farm recession doesn't look like a Wal...
Friday, January 16, 2026

New World Screwworm inches closer to the Texas border; flesh-eating larvae can be deadly to cattle

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Brahman cows graze near Mercedes, Texas, about 11 miles  from the Mexico border. (Photo by J. Carrico, Farm Journal) After a few months of ...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Quick hits: Fall leaf color predictions; Texas water crisis; rural movie for 2020 pandemic; opioid meds for jails

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Map from SmokyMountains.com shows fall leaf color projections. Red indicates peak color.  As autumn begins across much of the U.S., many Ame...
Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Texas cattle owners remain on 'high alert' as a human infection of New World screwworm is confirmed

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A sterile male screwworm fly is numbered to study fly dispersal. (USDA photo via PBS) Despite focused efforts to prevent the flesh-eating Ne...
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

USDA announces a new Texas facility to push screwworms from U.S.; the insidious larvae threaten the beef industry

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Screwworm infestations eat their living host's flesh. They are painful and can be deadly. (Adobe Stock photo) In an effort to combat the...
Tuesday, July 08, 2025

Fatal Texas flooding leads to controversy over National Weather Service staffing cuts

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The violent waters of the Guadalupe River flipped this  motor home.  (Photo by Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, NPR) The fatal July 4th flooding in ...
Friday, June 13, 2025

Marfa, Texas, may be small, but it has a big newspaper success story

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Co-owner Max Kabat keeps the cafe stocked with Big Bend  Sentinel newspapers. (CBS video clip) Like many rural newspapers in towns off the b...

The perseverance of Opal Lee: The 'grandmother' of Juneteenth shares a lesson for today

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At 98 years old, Opal Lee is still spreading a message of  patience and love.  (Photo by  Shayan Asgharnia, TX Monthly) As a child, she went...
Tuesday, March 18, 2025

As measles spread in west Texas, the state's 'lackluster investment' in rural health care systems is exposed

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Measles is a highly contagious disease caused by a virus. (Adobe Stock photo) As the number of diagnosed cases of measles continues to climb...
Friday, March 07, 2025

Residents and ranchers in Canadian, Texas, are still recovering a year after the Smokehouse Creek Fire

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Heavy smoke crossing a road on the Smokehouse Creek Fire on Feb. 27, 2024. (Wikipedia photo) It has been a year since the Smokehouse Fire b...
Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Fracking wastewater is blowing out of old oilwells; the water can mean contaminated groundwater and unusable land

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A Permian wellhead surrounded by fracking equipment. (Adobe Stock photo) Taking fracking wastewater and injecting it miles underground is th...
Friday, January 05, 2024

A small town in Texas struggles to manage immigration numbers -- its first responders are often overwhelmed

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Migrants walk along concertina wire on the U.S. side of the border in Texas. (Photo by Paul Ratje, The New York Times) Emergency workers and...
Wednesday, December 06, 2023

Report: Uvalde teachers and students correctly followed their live-shooter training, but officers weren't prepared

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The 21 people who died on May 24, 2022, at Robb Elementary School. (Courtesy photos, the Families via ABC News, Reuters, AP) It was May 24, ...
Friday, March 10, 2023

Despite its long history as a leader in fossil fuels, the Lone Star State leads the nation in renewable-energy production

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Chart by Paul Horn, ICN , from Energy Information Admin. data Some people say "Everything is bigger in Texas," and that sentiment...
Friday, March 26, 2021

Larry McMurtry, novelist who shaped Texas' view of itself, and America's view of Texas and the Old West, dies at 84

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Larry McMurtry posed for Dallas Morning News photographer David Woo in 2012 as he disposed of two-thirds his collection of half a million bo...
Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Texas newspaper's watchdog reporting uncovers county's rubber-stamp spending of Hurricane Harvey relief money

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A reduced version of the graphic that the Victoria Advocate ran with its story. The Victoria Advocate in Texas has uncovered lax overs...