Environment
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Great Texas Thirst: Corpus is Out of Water, and Lubbock is Just One Dust Storm Away from Joining Them
While we’re all busy complaining about the latest pothole on Slide Road, our neighbors down…
Ted Cruz Saves West Texas From the Imminent Threat of Having Too Much Nature
Our favorite part-time resident and full-time soundbite machine, Ted Cruz, is back to save us…
Socialism for Me, But Not for Thee: Lubbock Farmers Beg for Cotton Handouts
In a move that will surely surprise absolutely no one who understands how “free markets”…