Crime
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Two Wheels, One Cheap Pistol, and Zero Brain Cells: Clovis Man Perfects the Bicycle Drive-By
Just when you think West Texas has a absolute monopoly on mind-numbing, logic-defying crime, our neighbors just across the state line in Clovis, New Mexico, scream “hold my warm Keystone Light.” Last month, Andrew Robles decided to completely reinvent the classic drive-by shooting by trading in a getaway car for some good old-fashioned pedal power. [...]Read More... from Two Wheels, One Cheap Pistol, and Zero Brain Cells: Clovis Man Perfects the Bicycle Drive-By
Local Financial Genius Allegedly Pleads the Fifth 490 Times After Wandering Off With Lubbock’s Retirement
Ah, West Texas. A magical place where you can trust your neighbor, look a man in the eye, and apparently hand over your entire life savings to a couple of local “financial advisors” who allegedly ran it straight into a $68 million Ponzi scheme. Joshua Allen, one of the masterminds behind the now-demolished Ferrum Capital, [...]Read More... from Local Financial Genius Allegedly Pleads the Fifth 490 Times After Wandering Off With Lubbock’s Retirement
Lubbock Man Discovers ‘Aggressive Swaddling’ Is Not An Approved Parenting Technique, Gets Indicted
Welcome back to another depressing episode of “What is going on in the Hub City?” Today’s contestant is 22-year-old Miguel Silva, who was just indicted by a Lubbock Grand Jury on charges of Aggravated Assault of a Family/Household Member with a Weapon. Because if there’s one thing Lubbock never runs out of, it’s dust storms [...]Read More... from Lubbock Man Discovers ‘Aggressive Swaddling’ Is Not An Approved Parenting Technique, Gets Indicted
Guns
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Lubbock’s Latest Home Improvement Trend: Stashing 188 Grams of Meth in the Ceiling
Nothing says “Hub City hospitality” quite like a multi-agency Tuesday night block party featuring the Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office, the Department of Public Safety, and a full SWAT team. This particular tactical family reunion went down at a residence on East County Road 6540, where law enforcement executed a search warrant and discovered that Lubbock [...]Read More... from Lubbock’s Latest Home Improvement Trend: Stashing 188 Grams of Meth in the Ceiling
Location, Location, Location: Lubbock Genius Chooses Courthouses for Failed Grand Theft Auto Speedrun
If you’re planning to embark on a chaotic, multi-vehicle carjacking spree, standard criminal logic suggests picking a quiet neighborhood or a dark alley. But here in the Hub City, we do things a little differently. Meet 26-year-old Isaiah Houston, who decided the absolute best venue for his Friday afternoon crime spree was the 800 block [...]Read More... from Location, Location, Location: Lubbock Genius Chooses Courthouses for Failed Grand Theft Auto Speedrun
Lubbock’s Latest Bedtime Lullaby: Midnight Gunshots at The Landing
Set your alarms, Hub City, because nothing says “restful night’s sleep” quite like the soothing, midnight echo of gunfire. Around 12:15 a.m. on Thursday, the Lubbock Police Department had to interrupt their late-night routine to roll out to The Landing at Pinewood Park apartments near 4th and Slide Road. Because honestly, what’s a week in [...]Read More... from Lubbock’s Latest Bedtime Lullaby: Midnight Gunshots at The Landing
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Texas Tech and Ken Paxton Team Up to Prove Football is More Important Than Minor Things Like ‘The Law’
Only in Lubbock could a quarterback transfer in, get caught illegally wiring $90,000 out-of-state to fuel a massive sports-gambling addiction—including betting on his own damn team while at Indiana—and somehow become the victim we all need to rally behind. After the NCAA rightfully banned Texas Tech’s supposed savior, Brendan Sorsby, a local judge did the [...]Read More... from Texas Tech and Ken Paxton Team Up to Prove Football is More Important Than Minor Things Like ‘The Law’
Shocking Twist: Abbott Discovers ‘Regulation’ Isn’t a Dirty Word Now That AI Data Centers Are Set to Melt the Grid
Well, feather my nest and call me a prairie dog, because the unthinkable has happened. Governor Greg Abbott—a man whose entire political brand is built on telling businesses they can do whatever the hell they want in Texas—has suddenly realized that letting infinite AI data centers overrun the state might not be the flawless victory [...]Read More... from Shocking Twist: Abbott Discovers ‘Regulation’ Isn’t a Dirty Word Now That AI Data Centers Are Set to Melt the Grid
State Government Genius: Punishing Small Towns for Being Too Broke to Prove They’re Broke
Leave it to our brilliant lawmakers in Austin to cook up a bureaucratic paradox straight out of a dystopian comedy. In their holy, never-ending war to convince voters they are lowering property taxes, Texas Republicans quietly passed a law that forbids cities from raising property tax revenue if they are behind on their annual financial [...]Read More... from State Government Genius: Punishing Small Towns for Being Too Broke to Prove They’re Broke
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Flesh-Eating Screwworms Have Arrived in West Texas, But Don’t Worry, Experts Say We Have Fly Swatters
Just when you thought living on the South Plains couldn’t get any more glamorous, the universe decided to gift us the New World screwworm. For those unfamiliar with this lovely little creature, it’s a parasitic fly that hunts down warm-blooded animals with open wounds, lays hundreds of eggs, and lets its hatched maggots literally eat [...]Read More... from Flesh-Eating Screwworms Have Arrived in West Texas, But Don’t Worry, Experts Say We Have Fly Swatters
Flesh-Eating Maggots Outsmart Texas Bureaucracy in Record Time
It takes a special kind of comedic timing to look completely foolish on a federal stage, but USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins managed it beautifully. On a Tuesday, Rollins condescendingly patted a Texas state representative on the head for “causing panic” after he claimed that flesh-eating New World screwworms were just a mile from the border. [...]Read More... from Flesh-Eating Maggots Outsmart Texas Bureaucracy in Record Time
Driven to Destitution: We’re Swimming in Permian Basin Oil, So Why is Filling Up the Tank Costing Us a Kidney?
Welcome to West Texas, where a casual 90-mile daily commute is considered a “beautiful drive” rather than a cry for help. Take Philip Turner, a local Lubbock paramedic who drives all the way to Snyder to save lives for Scurry County EMS. He’s racking up to 360 miles a week just to get to work, [...]Read More... from Driven to Destitution: We’re Swimming in Permian Basin Oil, So Why is Filling Up the Tank Costing Us a Kidney?
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Texas Charter Schools Headed for a Cliff After Realizing You Need Actual Children to Maintain Enrollment
For three decades, Texas has treated charter schools like the golden child of education, gleefully watching them siphon students from traditional public schools. But the glorious, unregulated party might finally be over. Demography experts are warning that our beloved charters are officially “headed to a cliff” within five years because enrollment growth just plummeted to [...]Read More... from Texas Charter Schools Headed for a Cliff After Realizing You Need Actual Children to Maintain Enrollment
It Takes a Village to Ignore Abuse at Frenship ISD
In what might be the most disturbing display of synchronized apathy in Lubbock county this year, former Frenship special education aide T’nae Harrell was arrested for voyeurism. According to police, Harrell decided it was a great idea to lift up a 7-year-old student’s shirt in the middle of class, turn her toward another staff member, [...]Read More... from It Takes a Village to Ignore Abuse at Frenship ISD
Texas Tech Replaces Academic Freedom With AI Censorship, Wonders Why Faculty Are Fleeing Lubbock
Just when you thought higher education in the Hub City couldn’t get any more embarrassing, Texas Tech’s administration has managed to turn curriculum oversight into a dystopian comedy. According to a recent Faculty Senate survey, nearly half of the responding professors have had to alter their courses to comply with Chancellor Brandon Creighton’s sweeping war [...]Read More... from Texas Tech Replaces Academic Freedom With AI Censorship, Wonders Why Faculty Are Fleeing Lubbock
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Lubbock Boldly Tackles Five Years of Skyrocketing Child Abuse with a Mighty Six-Person Task Force
In a stunning display of lightning-fast government efficiency, our Lubbock County Commissioners unanimously voted to approve a brand-new law enforcement task force to address crimes against children. Why the sudden urgency? Oh, just because local crimes against kids aged 10 and under have quietly spiked by a whopping 25 percent over the last five years, [...]Read More... from Lubbock Boldly Tackles Five Years of Skyrocketing Child Abuse with a Mighty Six-Person Task Force
LPD’s Innovative New De-Escalation Tactic: Hitting the Suspect with a Cruiser
Welcome to Lubbock, where the only thing more dangerous than wandering around drunk on an access road at 5 a.m. is the police response. Early Saturday morning, out near the Preston Smith airport, 25-year-old Adonis Porter was reportedly intoxicated and annoying the employees of a local business. Doing exactly what you’re supposed to do, the [...]Read More... from LPD’s Innovative New De-Escalation Tactic: Hitting the Suspect with a Cruiser
It Takes a Village: Three Agencies and a Whole Hour to Stop One Guy on Clovis Road
Wednesday morning rush hour in Lubbock is already a soul-crushing experience, but 38-year-old Jerry Marquez decided to spice things up by turning his morning commute into a live-action Grand Theft Auto mission. Around 9:00 a.m., the Lubbock Police Department’s “Crime Suppression Unit” tried to pull Marquez over in the 1900 block of Clovis Road. Evidently, [...]Read More... from It Takes a Village: Three Agencies and a Whole Hour to Stop One Guy on Clovis Road
Public Health
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Welcome Our New Insect Overlords: West Nile Mosquitoes Officially Join the Party in Lubbock
Just when you thought surviving two solid weeks of non-stop daily rain and the sudden resurgence of flesh-eating screwworms was enough to earn us a break from Mother Nature, Lubbock’s thriving insect population has decided to raise the stakes. The Biological Threat Research Lab at Texas Tech University—which sounds like a top-secret facility handling zombie [...]Read More... from Welcome Our New Insect Overlords: West Nile Mosquitoes Officially Join the Party in Lubbock
Covenant Hospital’s Elite Diagnostic Team Takes Four Days to Realize a Stroking Teenager Isn’t Just High
Welcome to Lubbock, where if a 17-year-old athlete collapses and starts vomiting profusely, our premier local medical minds at Covenant automatically assume he’s just on a wicked teenage bender. Britton Voss, a high school junior and baseball pitcher, suffered a literal stroke last Saturday. But instead of getting immediate, life-saving imaging, he spent four whole [...]Read More... from Covenant Hospital’s Elite Diagnostic Team Takes Four Days to Realize a Stroking Teenager Isn’t Just High
Texas Medical Board Decides ‘Death’ is Just a Teachable Moment (With a Very Short Quiz)
Welcome to Texas, the only state where “standard of care” has been replaced by “consulting a lawyer while the patient bleeds out.” The Texas Medical Board has finally broken its silence on the deaths of Nevaeh Crain and Porsha Ngumezi, and their solution is exactly what you’d expect from a state that considers a 99-year [...]Read More... from Texas Medical Board Decides ‘Death’ is Just a Teachable Moment (With a Very Short Quiz)
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Game, Set, Match: Lubbock Pauses Tennis Lessons After Shocking Discovery That Free Court Time Doesn’t Balance the Budget
The City of Lubbock has officially pressed pause on all private lessons at the Burgess-Rushing Tennis Center. Why? Because during a rare and terrifying display of basic accounting—triggered by a center supervisor jumping ship—city officials suddenly realized they were bleeding cash. It turns out the tennis center is burning through a $280,000 annual budget while [...]Read More... from Game, Set, Match: Lubbock Pauses Tennis Lessons After Shocking Discovery That Free Court Time Doesn’t Balance the Budget
Lubbock Appraisal District Discovers Ultimate Life Hack: Just Ignore the Evidence and Give Everyone a Discount
Local tax protest guru Gary Adrian, founder of Ace of Texas, is absolutely throwing a fit because an out-of-town tech company named Ownwell figured out how to bully the Lubbock Central Appraisal District (LCAD) better than he did. Adrian stood before the LCAD board to whine that Ownwell “intentionally overloaded the system” by dumping 4,800 [...]Read More... from Lubbock Appraisal District Discovers Ultimate Life Hack: Just Ignore the Evidence and Give Everyone a Discount
Runoff Reality Check: Lubbock Welcomes Our New Overlords Chosen By Seven Whole Voters
Well, another primary runoff election is in the books, and to the surprise of absolutely no one who has ever stepped foot in West Texas, the color red reigns supreme. Locally, we can all breathe a sigh of relief knowing that the grueling battle for Lubbock County Commissioner is over. In Precinct 2, Kevin Pounds [...]Read More... from Runoff Reality Check: Lubbock Welcomes Our New Overlords Chosen By Seven Whole Voters
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Welcome to the Future: Downtown Lubbock Now Has an AI Data Center That Powers Like a McDonald’s and Exists in a Land-Lease Twilight Zone
Big news, tech bros! We are officially a “tier-two or tier-three” underserved community, which means Florida-based Duos Edge AI just graced central Lubbock with a “million-dollar” decentralized computing center near 19th and Avenue Q. Finally, our flat landscape can process artificial intelligence right down the street from where you get your transmission flushed. The company’s [...]Read More... from Welcome to the Future: Downtown Lubbock Now Has an AI Data Center That Powers Like a McDonald’s and Exists in a Land-Lease Twilight Zone
Don’t Blame Solar: Texas Tech’s New Gas-Guzzling AI Overlord is the Real Nightmare
The local media loves a good, safe distraction. Recently, our local news channels have been wringing their hands over how young West Texas farmers are being priced out of agricultural land, pointing the finger squarely at big, bad solar farms. Even the American Farmland Trust is crying foul, predicting Texas will lose 2.2 million acres [...]Read More... from Don’t Blame Solar: Texas Tech’s New Gas-Guzzling AI Overlord is the Real Nightmare
Google Invites Lubbock to Discuss Data Centers, Forgets to Leave Any Seats for the Actual Community
Nothing says “grassroots community transparency” quite like an exclusive, sold-out luncheon held at a stadium club. This Friday, the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce is hosting a totally unbiased, definitely-not-one-sided discussion at the Texas Tech Club to educate us simple folks on what data centers are, how they definitely won’t collapse our fragile power grid, and [...]Read More... from Google Invites Lubbock to Discuss Data Centers, Forgets to Leave Any Seats for the Actual Community
Alcohol
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Twisted Tea, Straight To Jail: Lubbock Man Reminds Us Why We Can’t Have Nice Things (Or Open Roads)
Ah, Tuesday evenings in Lubbock County. The sun sets, the wind howls, and the locals apparently decide to treat our flat, endless dirt roads like a demolition derby. This week’s contestant is 30-year-old Jason Boyd, who was arrested and charged with intoxication assault after a two-vehicle wreck near the sprawling, scenic metropolis of County Road [...]Read More... from Twisted Tea, Straight To Jail: Lubbock Man Reminds Us Why We Can’t Have Nice Things (Or Open Roads)
Hub City Driving: Where You Can Manage a Fatal Wreck on a Completely Empty Road
Leave it to Lubbock to prove that you don’t even need other cars on the road to cause a catastrophe. Around 4:15 a.m. last Friday, May 22, while normal cities were sleeping, the Texas Tech Police Department and the Lubbock PD Major Crash Investigation Unit were dragged out to the 1300 block of Texas Tech [...]Read More... from Hub City Driving: Where You Can Manage a Fatal Wreck on a Completely Empty Road
Another Shocking Twist: Lubbock Drivers Still Undefeated by Slight Road Curves
Tuesday evening around 6:30 p.m.—right when normal people are winding down or heading to dinner—the intersection of 55th Drive and Salem Avenue turned into the latest backdrop for Lubbock’s favorite extreme sport: ignoring physics. According to the Lubbock Police Department, 23-year-old Isaiah Wilson was flying west down 55th Drive at a “high rate of speed” [...]Read More... from Another Shocking Twist: Lubbock Drivers Still Undefeated by Slight Road Curves
Racism
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Lubbock PD’s Guide to Crime Fighting: Ignore the Chain-Smoking Serial Rapist, Arrest the Innocent Asthmatic
Back in 1985, a serial rapist was terrorizing the Texas Tech campus. According to survivors, the predator was a chain-smoker who threatened them with a knife. Naturally, Lubbock’s finest locked their sights on Timothy Cole—a decorated Army veteran, Texas Tech student, and severe asthmatic who didn’t smoke. Why? Because an undercover cop saw him offer [...]Read More... from Lubbock PD’s Guide to Crime Fighting: Ignore the Chain-Smoking Serial Rapist, Arrest the Innocent Asthmatic
LPD Chief on SB4: We’re Not Doing Anything Different, We’re Just More Confused Now
Texas has officially decided that every local cop should moonlight as a junior Border Patrol agent, but Lubbock Police Chief Seth Herman isn’t exactly rushing to buy his officers olive-drab uniforms. SB4, the law that turns illegal entry into a state crime, is technically set to go into effect on May 15. However, Herman basically [...]Read More... from LPD Chief on SB4: We’re Not Doing Anything Different, We’re Just More Confused Now
Texas GOP Claims Victory for “Equality” (By Making Sure Your Vote Matters Even Less)
The Supreme Court finally gave the Texas GOP the permission slip they’ve been begging for. In a move that surprised absolutely no one who has paid attention to the last decade of Texas politics, the court decided that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act isn’t technically dead—it’s just been moved to the intensive care [...]Read More... from Texas GOP Claims Victory for “Equality” (By Making Sure Your Vote Matters Even Less)
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Lubbock Judge Rules Betting On Your Own Team Is Just A ‘Healing Journey,’ And Now The Whole Country Hates Us
Welcome to Lubbock, where the ultimate cardinal sin of sports—betting on your own damn team—isn’t a lifetime ban; it’s just a great excuse to skip the boring non-conference games. Our brilliant local 99th District Court Judge, Ken Curry, just granted an emergency injunction allowing transfer quarterback Brendan Sorsby to suit up for the Red Raiders [...]Read More... from Lubbock Judge Rules Betting On Your Own Team Is Just A ‘Healing Journey,’ And Now The Whole Country Hates Us
Texas Tech QB Brendan Sorsby Gambles Away His Eligibility, Hires State House Speaker to Argue Betting on Your Own Team is Actually ‘Self-Care’
Texas Tech’s projected savior under center, quarterback Brendan Sorsby, spent his Monday morning in a Lubbock courtroom begging a judge to let him play football this fall. The big, bad NCAA recently declared Sorsby permanently ineligible, which seems a bit harsh until you look at the minor detail that he placed thousands of sports bets [...]Read More... from Texas Tech QB Brendan Sorsby Gambles Away His Eligibility, Hires State House Speaker to Argue Betting on Your Own Team is Actually ‘Self-Care’
Ted Cruz and Greg Abbott Team Up to Micromanage the Only Two Things Texas Cares About: Football and Affordable Cover-ups
Just when you thought life in Lubbock couldn’t get any more thrilling than watching tumbleweeds collect in the local supermarket parking lot, our political overlords have descended from their ivory towers to save us. First up on the savior docket is Senator Ted Cruz, who has graciously blessed the nation with a massive 111-page legislative [...]Read More... from Ted Cruz and Greg Abbott Team Up to Micromanage the Only Two Things Texas Cares About: Football and Affordable Cover-ups
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Texas GOP Achieves 100% Pure Sycophancy Just as Voters Realize Trump Didn’t Fix Their Grocery Bills
Welcome to Texas, where the only thing inflating faster than the price of a gallon of milk is the required level of absolute, unblinking devotion to the MAGA universe. In the latest round of runoff elections, the Texas Republican Party completed its transformation from a standard pro-business group into a full-blown loyalty cult. Longtime Senator [...]Read More... from Texas GOP Achieves 100% Pure Sycophancy Just as Voters Realize Trump Didn’t Fix Their Grocery Bills
Texas GOP Swiftly Deletes Its Memory Because Principles Don’t Win Senate Seats
Ken Paxton absolutely demolished establishment favorite John Cornyn by nearly 30 percentage points in the Republican primary runoff, proving once again that Texas primary voters love a rebel—especially one with a rap sheet. This is the exact same Ken Paxton that the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spent millions of dollars bashing as “corrupt,” “incompetent,” [...]Read More... from Texas GOP Swiftly Deletes Its Memory Because Principles Don’t Win Senate Seats
Go Pick Your Favorite Multi-Millionaire at the Sutherlands Lighting Section: The 2026 Runoffs Are Here!
It’s Tuesday, May 26, and the 2026 Joint Primary Runoffs are officially here to drag us back to the polls because nobody could agree on a candidate back in March. Historically, only about 8.2% of registered Texas voters actually bother to show up for these political overtime rounds, meaning a tiny, highly reactive fraction of [...]Read More... from Go Pick Your Favorite Multi-Millionaire at the Sutherlands Lighting Section: The 2026 Runoffs Are Here!
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Lubbock Mayor’s Endorsed Congressional Candidate Proves “Biblical Values” Usually Involve Grindr Receipts
Remember back in February when our freshly re-elected Mayor, Mark “No Pride Proclamations in My Town” McBrayer, proudly endorsed Abraham Enriquez for Congress? McBrayer praised the 31-year-old candidate for having the “courage and conviction” to uphold West Texas conservative values. Well, it turns out Enriquez has been holding onto those values real tight—right alongside his [...]Read More... from Lubbock Mayor’s Endorsed Congressional Candidate Proves “Biblical Values” Usually Involve Grindr Receipts
Big Brother is Watching You Worship: Israel is Geofencing Lubbock Megachurches for Ad Clout
According to Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) disclosures filed by a California firm called Show Faith by Works LLC , Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs is dropping over $4 million on what the firm calls the “largest Christian Church Geofencing Campaign in U.S. history”. Run by conservative political consultant Chad Schnitger , the campaign’s explicit [...]Read More... from Big Brother is Watching You Worship: Israel is Geofencing Lubbock Megachurches for Ad Clout
Paxton Plays Hallway Monitor: LISD Investigated for Not Being “Churchy” Enough
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a man who knows a thing or two about being under investigation himself, has decided to spend his time auditing the interior decor of Lubbock ISD. Paxton is “investigating” whether our local schools are complying with Senate Bill 10, the high-priority law that ensures every child has a convenient stone-tablet [...]Read More... from Paxton Plays Hallway Monitor: LISD Investigated for Not Being “Churchy” Enough
Weather
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Hub City Navy: Driver Tries to Ford a River on Cesar Chavez Drive, Triggers Actual Dive Team Rescue
It’s early June, which means Lubbock has received its annual allotment of atmospheric moisture—a whopping 1.72 inches for the week, pushing our monumental year-to-date total to a staggering 5.64 inches. And, right on cue, because the sight of liquid falling from the sky completely short-circuits the collective local driving psychology, someone immediately tried to use [...]Read More... from Hub City Navy: Driver Tries to Ford a River on Cesar Chavez Drive, Triggers Actual Dive Team Rescue
Slaton Farmer Confidently Gambles Entire Livelihood on Lubbock Weather and Middle East Stability
It’s that magical time of year in the Hub City metroplex where local cotton farmers are frantically drag-racing the clock to dump seeds into the dirt before Friday’s crop insurance deadline. Because nothing says “sustainable economic foundation” quite like a panicked dash against bureaucratic cut-offs, all while praying the West Texas wind doesn’t just blow [...]Read More... from Slaton Farmer Confidently Gambles Entire Livelihood on Lubbock Weather and Middle East Stability
Mission Accomplished: Lubbock’s Genius Strategy to Ensure Our Roads Still Flood Anyway
Great news, Lubbockites! City Hall has been working tirelessly on “years of planning” to fix our notorious infrastructure, and they want you to know they’ve completed several major projects to move rainwater more efficiently. They’ve successfully connected a bunch of playa lakes in South Lubbock and linked the Medical District to the Canyon Lakes system. [...]Read More... from Mission Accomplished: Lubbock’s Genius Strategy to Ensure Our Roads Still Flood Anyway
LGBTQ
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Texas Leaders Scramble to Protect Our Kids from the Dangers of “Accomplished Teaching”
National Board Certification—the “gold standard” of teaching that’s reportedly harder to get than a Master’s degree—is currently on the chopping block in Austin. Why? Because it turns out being an “accomplished teacher” involves things like “self-reflection” and “not traumatizing children,” which apparently doesn’t sit well with the Texas brand. Our brilliant state leaders are worried [...]Read More... from Texas Leaders Scramble to Protect Our Kids from the Dangers of “Accomplished Teaching”
RIP Thinking: Tech Students Hold Funeral for Academic Freedom While Board of Regents Plays Undertaker
Yesterday, Texas Tech students traded their “Guns Up” for “Heads Down” as they staged a literal funeral for academic freedom. Nothing says “I’m getting a world-class education” quite like a horse-drawn carriage hauling an urn and some censored books across campus while the Board of Regents watches from the safety of their tax-funded air conditioning. [...]Read More... from RIP Thinking: Tech Students Hold Funeral for Academic Freedom While Board of Regents Plays Undertaker
R.I.P. Thinking: Texas Tech Students Dust Off Their Goth Gear for an Academic Freedom Funeral
Oh look, Texas Tech is making national headlines again, and for once, it doesn’t involve couch-burning or a sports scandal. This Thursday, student groups Raiders Against Censorship and Students Engaged in Advancing Texas are trading in their standard university gear for straight-up Victorian mourning attire. They are staging a full-blown, horse-drawn mock funeral on campus [...]Read More... from R.I.P. Thinking: Texas Tech Students Dust Off Their Goth Gear for an Academic Freedom Funeral
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Mother Nature Spits on US 84, Semi-Truck Responds with Fatal Gymnastics
Welcome to West Texas, where a mere suggestion of rain instantly transforms our highways into a high-stakes demolition derby. On Saturday morning, a 54-year-old truck driver from Socorro found out exactly what happens when you mix a wet U.S. Highway 84, an 18-wheeler, and absolute defiance of basic vehicle safety features. According to DPS, the [...]Read More... from Mother Nature Spits on US 84, Semi-Truck Responds with Fatal Gymnastics
Lubbock Garbage Truck Flips Directly in Front of ‘Crash Champions’ Because of Course It Did
On Monday morning around 10:30 a.m., a City of Lubbock garbage truck apparently decided it was tired of standing up and rolled completely over onto its side near the westbound South Loop 289 and Slide Road access ramp. One person was hauled off to the hospital with serious, but thankfully non-life-threatening injuries. Because if there [...]Read More... from Lubbock Garbage Truck Flips Directly in Front of ‘Crash Champions’ Because of Course It Did
Indiana Avenue Commute Turns Into a High-Stakes Demolition Derby Because Merging is Hard
Ah, Indiana Avenue at 5:30 p.m.—a dystopian hellscape of loop traffic spillover and drivers who treat turn signals like an admission of weakness. Yesterday evening, 39-year-old Casey Nickelson decided to turn this daily commuter nightmare into a full-blown reality TV episode because someone had the absolute audacity to try and merge into his lane near [...]Read More... from Indiana Avenue Commute Turns Into a High-Stakes Demolition Derby Because Merging is Hard
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Texas Tech Discovers ‘Sophistication’ Involves Charging 133,000 People a Month’s Rent to Hear ‘Check Yes or No’
Well, “The King” has finally abdicated his throne at Jones AT&T Stadium, leaving behind nothing but empty beer cans, lingering clouds of cologne, and a Texas Tech administration that is absolutely giddy over how much money they just squeezed out of the South Plains. President Lawrence Schovanec took a victory lap this week, noting that [...]Read More... from Texas Tech Discovers ‘Sophistication’ Involves Charging 133,000 People a Month’s Rent to Hear ‘Check Yes or No’
George Strait is Coming to Save Our Sinking Economy (And Drink Every Last Coors Light in the County)
Lubbock is currently in the middle of a collective nervous breakdown because King George is descending upon Jones AT&T Stadium this weekend. According to the geniuses at the Lubbock Economic Development Alliance (LEDA), we are officially “sold out,” which is a terrifying phrase usually reserved for concert tickets but, in this case, applies to our [...]Read More... from George Strait is Coming to Save Our Sinking Economy (And Drink Every Last Coors Light in the County)
All Hail King George: A Guide to Standing in a Parking Lot for Six Hours
Lubbock is currently vibrating with the kind of frantic energy usually reserved for a light dusting of snow or a mid-tier bowl game. “The King” George Strait is descending upon Jones AT&T Stadium this weekend, and the city has released a “guide” that is essentially a polite way of saying, “May the odds be ever [...]Read More... from All Hail King George: A Guide to Standing in a Parking Lot for Six Hours
Mental Health
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Lubbock: So Great that 2,000 of You Tried to Leave Early Last Year
It’s official: Lubbock is so charming that the Lubbock Police Department had to respond to a staggering 2,129 suicidal subject calls in 2025. That’s roughly six calls a day from people who looked at our majestic brown horizons and endless rows of chain restaurants and thought, “I’ve seen enough.” To put that in perspective, Lubbock [...]Read More... from Lubbock: So Great that 2,000 of You Tried to Leave Early Last Year
Lubbock’s Newest Scuba Destination: The Scummy Puddle at 56th and Bangor
Just before 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday—right when the rest of us were contemplating our life choices over lukewarm coffee—someone decided to take their vehicle for an unscheduled swim in the playa lake near 56th and Bangor. Because when you think “serene aquatic escape,” you naturally think of a shallow basin primarily designed to collect West [...]Read More... from Lubbock’s Newest Scuba Destination: The Scummy Puddle at 56th and Bangor
The Gummy Menace: Judge Parrish Finds the One Single Reason We’re All Losing Our Minds
In a city where the most common hobbies are sitting in traffic on Loop 289 and breathing in fertilizer-scented dust, you might think our skyrocketing mental health crisis has something to do with the general soul-crushing reality of West Texas life. But according to Lubbock County Judge Curtis Parrish and State Senator Charles Perry, you’d [...]Read More... from The Gummy Menace: Judge Parrish Finds the One Single Reason We’re All Losing Our Minds
Abortion
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How Mark Lee Dickson Turned Lubbock Into a Laboratory for 19th-Century Laws
The socio-political landscape of Lubbock, Texas, often described by its own inhabitants as a flat expanse of cotton, dust, and denominational redundancy, has recently evolved into a premier laboratory for the “Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn” (SCFTU) movement. This transformation, spearheaded by an East Texas activist with a penchant for backward baseball caps and a [...]Read More... from How Mark Lee Dickson Turned Lubbock Into a Laboratory for 19th-Century Laws
Texas Tech Med: Where Doctors Learn Everything (Except the Stuff That Makes Mark Lee Dickson Sad)
In today’s edition of “Lubbock: The Hub City of Fragile Sensibilities,” Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center has decided that medical education is great and all, but it’s really not worth the hassle of a Facebook notification. The school officially pulled the plug on a talk by Dr. Shelley Sella, an OB-GYN who was set [...]Read More... from Texas Tech Med: Where Doctors Learn Everything (Except the Stuff That Makes Mark Lee Dickson Sad)
Tech Health Sciences Center Discovers “Open Inquiry” Is Bad for the Brand (And the Budget)
In a shocking display of spine-strength usually reserved for overcooked spaghetti, the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) decided that hearing a retired doctor talk about medical care was simply “not in the best interest” of the university. Dr. Shelley Sella, a pioneer in third-trimester abortion care, was scheduled to speak last Monday until [...]Read More... from Tech Health Sciences Center Discovers “Open Inquiry” Is Bad for the Brand (And the Budget)
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Raise a Martini: Lubbock Trades a 100-Year-Old Landmark for Another Student Housing Box
Cafe J — the longtime restaurant and bar across from Texas Tech where martinis flowed and important people pretended they loved Lubbock — officially closed Sunday night after graduation weekend. The property has been sold, the building will be demolished, and the site will become high-density student housing. Because of course it will. The closure [...]Read More... from Raise a Martini: Lubbock Trades a 100-Year-Old Landmark for Another Student Housing Box
Abbott’s Frozen Custard Closes—Turns Out Lubbock Only Likes One Abbott, and He Doesn’t Serve Dessert
Abbott’s Frozen Custard has officially called it quits in Lubbock, shutting down right after celebrating their first anniversary. The shop on Slide Road quietly updated its Facebook status to “permanently closed,” which is basically the business version of being ghosted. No long farewell message, no heartfelt community thank-you—just poof, like half the restaurants that dare [...]Read More... from Abbott’s Frozen Custard Closes—Turns Out Lubbock Only Likes One Abbott, and He Doesn’t Serve Dessert
United Supermarkets Cuts 126 Jobs—Because Even Your Grocer Isn’t Safe in This Economy
United Supermarkets filed a WARN notice saying it’ll be chopping 126 jobs at its Lubbock headquarters starting Jan. 19. That’s right—one of the city’s top 10 employers is pulling the plug on director roles, marketing staff, and support desk positions. Because nothing says “we’re a thriving West Texas hub” like losing a chunk of one [...]Read More... from United Supermarkets Cuts 126 Jobs—Because Even Your Grocer Isn’t Safe in This Economy
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FOX 34 Anchor Uncovers the Real Threat to National Security: K-Pop Themed Oreos
Leave it to Lubbock to finally make national headlines again, and of course, it’s because one of our local news anchors decided a lighthearted morning segment about snack food was the perfect time to invoke international terrorism. During a recent broadcast of Good Day Lubbock, FOX 34 anchor James Eppler was introducing the new limited-edition, [...]Read More... from FOX 34 Anchor Uncovers the Real Threat to National Security: K-Pop Themed Oreos
Silence is Golden: KFYO’s Resident Loudspeaker Finally Hits Mute
In a shocking turn of events for anyone who thought yelling into a vacuum was a recipe for immortality, local AM radio fixture Chad Hasty has passed away at the age of 43. Hasty, who spent over two decades ensuring that every West Texan’s morning commute was seasoned with exactly the right amount of political [...]Read More... from Silence is Golden: KFYO’s Resident Loudspeaker Finally Hits Mute
DISH and KCBD Enter Month Two of Their Billionaire Breakup, and Guess Who’s Paying for the Therapy?
In a city where the most exciting Friday night activity is watching a dust cloud swallow a Taco Villa, Lubbockites are now being deprived of the one thing that keeps them tethered to reality: local news. It’s been over a month since DISH Network yanked KCBD and its sister stations off the air, leaving satellite [...]Read More... from DISH and KCBD Enter Month Two of Their Billionaire Breakup, and Guess Who’s Paying for the Therapy?