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Lubbock: So Great that 2,000 of You Tried to Leave Early Last Year

lubbock-sucks — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:54:24 +0000

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 [...]

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Lubbock’s Newest Scuba Destination: The Scummy Puddle at 56th and Bangor

lubbock-sucks — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:09:58 +0000

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 [...]

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The Gummy Menace: Judge Parrish Finds the One Single Reason We’re All Losing Our Minds

lubbock-sucks — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:19:33 +0000

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 [...]

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Lubbock: Where Your Paycheck is Fat, but Your Soul is Flat

lubbock-sucks — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:21:13 +0000

Oh, joy. Another “study” has come out to tell us what we already feel every time we look at a horizon that hasn’t changed since the Mesozoic era. WalletHub just dropped its happiness rankings, and our beloved Hub City managed to snag a glorious #135 out of 182. That’s right—we are officially in the bottom [...]

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Small-Town Gunfire, Big-Town Silence: Slaton Wakes Up to a Nightmare

lubbock-sucks — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:21:31 +0000

Late Sunday night, just before 11 p.m., police were called to the 300 block of East Floyd Street in Slaton after reports of multiple gunshot victims. When officers arrived, they found three people already dead from gunshot wounds and two others badly injured. Both survivors were rushed to a local hospital and have since been [...]

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Lubbock Outsources Compassion, Imports Kindness From New York

lubbock-sucks — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:16:30 +0000

In a story that manages to be both heartwarming and deeply, painfully West Texas, 13-year-old Carilyn “Cari” Truelock finally got a break from years of relentless bullying—not thanks to local schools, mind you, but because a nonprofit from New York heard her story and said, “Yeah, someone should probably do something.” And so 30 students [...]

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Market Street Shooter Blames COVID, Gets Probation Instead of Prison

lubbock-sucks — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 19:13:58 +0000

Robert Joseph Baker, 39, shot and killed a stranger outside the Market Street at 19th and Quaker in 2020, fired off more rounds at a gas station, then shot his own car at Covenant before trying to check himself in for COVID-19 symptoms. His lawyer later argued he was hallucinating from hypoxia brought on by [...]

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Sid Miller Discovers Farmers Have Feelings Too

lubbock-sucks — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 23:59:19 +0000

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller—usually better known for Facebook rants and rodeo politics—actually raised a serious point this month: farmers and ranchers are dying by suicide at three times the national average, second only to veterans. Turns out “multi-generation family legacy plus bank loans plus drought” isn’t exactly a recipe for good mental health. Who [...]

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Abbott Drops $121 Million on Lubbock’s New Loony Bin (Coming 2027)

lubbock-sucks — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 21:46:08 +0000

Governor Greg Abbott is patting himself on the back again, this time for greenlighting $121 million to build a brand-new Lubbock Psychiatric Center. The 50-bed, maximum-security facility will be tucked off Peach Avenue near Highway 84 and is expected to open in 2027—because nothing says urgent mental health crisis response like “come back in two [...]

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Lubbock Proudly Mediocre: Ranks 169th in Best Places to Live List

lubbock-sucks — Thu, 22 May 2025 17:22:44 +0000

In its annual report on the Best Places to Live in the U.S., U.S. News & World Report did what most of us already expected: gave Lubbock, TX a participation trophy. Lubbock landed a glorious #169 out of 250 cities nationally — safely nestled in the bottom third of the rankings. And in the great [...]

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City Council to Decide if Lubbock Should Pretend to Care About Public Health

lubbock-sucks — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 12:55:00 +0000

Lubbock Public Health spent nearly a year gathering input from 2,100 residents, producing a hefty Community Health Needs Assessment that basically says: people can’t afford doctors, mental health care is a mess, chronic diseases are rampant, STIs are through the roof, and East Lubbock still looks like it got left off the city’s grocery store [...]

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Texas Tech Researchers Take on West Texas’ “Mental Health Wasteland” — Armed With PR and Duct Tape

lubbock-sucks — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 20:48:32 +0000

Turns out, Texas ranks near the bottom for child and adolescent mental health resources. In Lubbock and Midland counties, there are fewer than 17 providers for every 100,000 kids — and in the 87 surrounding rural counties? Zero. That’s right, your kid’s best shot at a psychiatrist might still be Dr. Pepper and a youth [...]

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Lubbock Leads Texas in Teen Suicide Attempts—Because of Course We Do

lubbock-sucks — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 11:00:00 +0000

According to a new analysis, Lubbock has the highest rate of youth suicide attempts in the entire state of Texas. Yes, out of every city in this giant state, it’s Lubbock’s kids who are struggling the most—and the lack of mental health resources here isn’t exactly helping. Adam Hernandez, whose daughter Jacquelyn died by suicide [...]

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