Public Health
The Texas Miracle: Ken Paxton Campaigns on the ‘Unborn’ While Rural Texans Try Not to Give Birth on Highway 84
Texas Attorney General, walking scandal magnet, and now U.S. Senate hopeful Ken Paxton is out on the campaign trail trying to convince us he’s the…
Silicon Prairie or Signs of the Apocalypse? Lubbock Freaks Out Over AI Data Centers
Our visionary city leaders are desperate to turn the Hub City into a tech mecca,…
West Texas Celebrates Barely Surviving Last Year’s Measles Outbreak By Making It Easier to Skip Vaccines
After the historic 2025 West Texas measles outbreak—which managed to kill two school-age children and…
Project Caprock is Bringing AI to Abernathy, Because What Our Power Grid Needed Was More Homework
Just what the South Plains needed: more digital infrastructure to power the global supply of…
Thinking Outside the Box: TTUHSC Solves Texas Healthcare Crisis by Shoving Patients into Shipping Containers
Our very own Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, in a brilliant joint venture with…
Irony Wins Again: Shallowater Forced to Boil Tap Water After Contractor Plays Whack-A-Mole with Main Line
Just when you thought living on the Hub City’s perimeter couldn’t get any more glamorous,…
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…
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…
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Welcome to Texas, the only state where “standard of care” has been replaced by “consulting…
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…