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Lubbock Criminal Mastermind Pioneers New Escape Tactic: Running Himself Over
Just when you think the Hub City has peaked in terms of local driving talent, a Monday morning commute reminds us that the bar can always go lower. Around 4:30 a.m. today, Lubbock Police attempted a routine traffic stop near 28th Street and Avenue P. Instead of pulling over like a functioning member of society, [...]Read More... from Lubbock Criminal Mastermind Pioneers New Escape Tactic: Running Himself Over
Lubbock Teen Completes 19th Street Demo Derby Before Getting A Learner’s Permit
Sunday afternoons in Lubbock are usually reserved for post-church traffic jams or staring blankly at the dust blowing across the Loop. But yesterday, one enterprising 14-year-old decided to spice things up by taking a stolen sedan for a casual joyride around 34th Street and University Avenue. When Lubbock Police spotted him at 2:13 p.m. and [...]Read More... from Lubbock Teen Completes 19th Street Demo Derby Before Getting A Learner’s Permit
Lubbock Justice: Blast Through a Red Light, Kill a Family, and Get Five Years of ‘Pretty Please Don’t Do It Again’
Welcome back to Hub City, where the speed limits are purely vibe-based, stoplights are decorative, and the local justice system operates on a sliding scale of how much your family name matters. Our latest example of Lubbock excellence features 35-year-old Jordan Merchant—Principal and President of Construction at 7B Development—who just walked out of the 140th [...]Read More... from Lubbock Justice: Blast Through a Red Light, Kill a Family, and Get Five Years of ‘Pretty Please Don’t Do It Again’
Politics
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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 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”
The Texas Miracle: We’re Trading Our Last Cup of Water for a ChatGPT Server Farm
It turns out the “Texas Miracle” Governor Abbott keeps preaching about is actually just a high-stakes trade: we give Silicon Valley our remaining groundwater, and in exchange, they give us a massive “Stargate” data center that creates three jobs and enough heat to finish off the Panhandle. Rural Republicans like Rena Schroeder are finally realizing [...]Read More... from The Texas Miracle: We’re Trading Our Last Cup of Water for a ChatGPT Server Farm
Guns
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The Lubbock “Civil” Breakup: Where ‘Getting Your Stuff Back’ Includes a Side of Lead
Ah, Sunday in the Hub City. While most of us were arguing over the last basket of rolls at Texas Roadhouse, the fine folks over on 38th Street were busy turning a routine property retrieval into a scene from COPS. Because in Lubbock, you don’t just move out of a house—you survive it. Let’s talk [...]Read More... from The Lubbock “Civil” Breakup: Where ‘Getting Your Stuff Back’ Includes a Side of Lead
West Texas Sends Its Best: Midland Man Learns D.C. Has Actual Gun Laws the Hard Way
Because life in the Permian Basin clearly wasn’t thrilling enough, 45-year-old Michael Marx of Midland decided to export some classic West Texas “charm” straight to the nation’s capital. On Monday afternoon, Marx found himself near the National Mall, right along the route of Vice President JD Vance’s motorcade. Instead of doing normal tourist things like [...]Read More... from West Texas Sends Its Best: Midland Man Learns D.C. Has Actual Gun Laws the Hard Way
Routine Lubbock Traffic Stop Successfully Escalates Into Cross-County Gun Battle
Around 11:35 p.m. on Tuesday night, a Lubbock police officer attempted what should have been a completely mundane traffic stop. But because this is the Hub City—where yielding is a foreign concept and traffic laws are treated as polite suggestions—the driver decided that pulling over was simply out of the question. Instead, they slammed on [...]Read More... from Routine Lubbock Traffic Stop Successfully Escalates Into Cross-County Gun Battle
Public Health
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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)
Shallowater: Come for the Small-Town Charm, Stay for the Radioactive Kidney Failure
Our neighbors in Shallowater just got some glowing news from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. It turns out the local tap water has officially surpassed the EPA’s “try not to grow a third arm” limit for combined uranium. While the feds suggest 30 micrograms per liter is the maximum acceptable amount for human survival, [...]Read More... from Shallowater: Come for the Small-Town Charm, Stay for the Radioactive Kidney Failure
Education
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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”
Frenship Aide Thought a 7-Year-Old’s Body Was Apparently Up for Discussion
A former Legacy Elementary special education aide has been fired, arrested, and charged with voyeurism after making lewd comments about a seven-year-old student’s chest — then physically exposing the child to another staff member, apparently just to drive the point home. The April 29 incident was witnessed by four colleagues and caught on classroom security [...]Read More... from Frenship Aide Thought a 7-Year-Old’s Body Was Apparently Up for Discussion
Tech Drops $3.5M on a Fraudster’s Fixer-Upper (Because Market Value is for Poor People)
In a move that surprises absolutely no one familiar with how money vanishes in this town, the Texas Tech University System recently confirmed they dropped a cool $3.5 million on Bart Reagor’s old mansion on 19th Street. You remember Bart, right? The guy currently trading his signature “Let’s Roll” catchphrase for a taxpayer-funded bunk in [...]Read More... from Tech Drops $3.5M on a Fraudster’s Fixer-Upper (Because Market Value is for Poor People)
Local Government
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TxDOT Finally Remembers That Concrete Lawn Ornament South of Town is Supposed to Be a Bridge
Welcome back to the graveyard of progress, Lubbock. After three years of staring at concrete pillars that did nothing but provide shade for confused tumbleweeds, TxDOT has finally decided to finish the U.S. 87/FM 41 overpass. You know, the project that was supposed to be wrapped up in 2024 but is now aiming for “late [...]Read More... from TxDOT Finally Remembers That Concrete Lawn Ornament South of Town is Supposed to Be a Bridge
Lubbock’s Own Dustin Burrows Leads the Brave Fight to Keep Texas Summer Camps Incommunicado and Hazardous
Remember last year’s catastrophic July 4 floods? The ones where 137 Texans tragically drowned, including 25 children at a Hill Country summer camp who couldn’t be reached because cell towers were down and emergency responders had no way to warn them? In a rare, fleeting moment of actual governance, the Texas Legislature passed a law [...]Read More... from Lubbock’s Own Dustin Burrows Leads the Brave Fight to Keep Texas Summer Camps Incommunicado and Hazardous
Apathy Wins in a Landslide: Lubbock Re-Elects the Status Quo with the Support of Twelve People and a Golden Retriever
The “masses” have spoken, and by “masses,” I mean the approximately 9,533 people who realized there was an election happening between their third and fourth trips to Taco Villa. In a city of over 260,000, Mayor Mark McBrayer coasted to victory with 70.3% of the vote. It turns out that if you promise more police [...]Read More... from Apathy Wins in a Landslide: Lubbock Re-Elects the Status Quo with the Support of Twelve People and a Golden Retriever
Economics
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Don Quixote Wins: Feds Freeze West Texas Wind Projects to Protect Our Precious Radar (and Oil)
The U.S. Department of Defense has apparently decided that the greatest threat to American national security isn’t cyber warfare or geopolitical rivals, but giant, stationary metal pinwheels. In a move that surprises absolutely no one who tracks the federal government’s ongoing crusade against renewable energy, the DoD has put 54 wind projects across Texas on [...]Read More... from Don Quixote Wins: Feds Freeze West Texas Wind Projects to Protect Our Precious Radar (and Oil)
Lubbock Justice: Blast Through a Red Light, Kill a Family, and Get Five Years of ‘Pretty Please Don’t Do It Again’
Welcome back to Hub City, where the speed limits are purely vibe-based, stoplights are decorative, and the local justice system operates on a sliding scale of how much your family name matters. Our latest example of Lubbock excellence features 35-year-old Jordan Merchant—Principal and President of Construction at 7B Development—who just walked out of the 140th [...]Read More... from Lubbock Justice: Blast Through a Red Light, Kill a Family, and Get Five Years of ‘Pretty Please Don’t Do It Again’
The Texas Miracle: We’re Trading Our Last Cup of Water for a ChatGPT Server Farm
It turns out the “Texas Miracle” Governor Abbott keeps preaching about is actually just a high-stakes trade: we give Silicon Valley our remaining groundwater, and in exchange, they give us a massive “Stargate” data center that creates three jobs and enough heat to finish off the Panhandle. Rural Republicans like Rena Schroeder are finally realizing [...]Read More... from The Texas Miracle: We’re Trading Our Last Cup of Water for a ChatGPT Server Farm
Police
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Lubbock Criminal Mastermind Pioneers New Escape Tactic: Running Himself Over
Just when you think the Hub City has peaked in terms of local driving talent, a Monday morning commute reminds us that the bar can always go lower. Around 4:30 a.m. today, Lubbock Police attempted a routine traffic stop near 28th Street and Avenue P. Instead of pulling over like a functioning member of society, [...]Read More... from Lubbock Criminal Mastermind Pioneers New Escape Tactic: Running Himself Over
Lubbock Teen Completes 19th Street Demo Derby Before Getting A Learner’s Permit
Sunday afternoons in Lubbock are usually reserved for post-church traffic jams or staring blankly at the dust blowing across the Loop. But yesterday, one enterprising 14-year-old decided to spice things up by taking a stolen sedan for a casual joyride around 34th Street and University Avenue. When Lubbock Police spotted him at 2:13 p.m. and [...]Read More... from Lubbock Teen Completes 19th Street Demo Derby Before Getting A Learner’s Permit
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