Racism
Texas Reinvents the “Wheel” (By Making Sure 1.7 Million People Can’t Turn One)
Well, pull up a lawn chair and grab a Dr Pepper, because Austin has decided that the best way to handle a workforce shortage and…
Bo French Wants to Deport 100 Million People, Because Clearly the Railroad Commission Wasn’t High-Stakes Enough
Just when you thought the Texas Railroad Commission was a boring-as-dirt agency that handles oil…
Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows Proposes Manifest Destiny 2.0: The New Mexico DLC
Lubbock’s favorite son and current House Speaker, Dustin Burrows, has released his “interim charges” for…
Lubbock Loses a Legend Who Actually Cared, Leaving the Rest of Us to Deal with Walgreens Hold Music
In a shocking turn of events for a city that usually makes headlines for things…
Lubbock Discovers “The East Side” Exists, Continues to Do Absolutely Nothing About It
In a shocking revelation that surprised no one who has ever looked at a city…
Lubbock-Cooper Senior Learns the Hard Way That “Complexity” is Code for “We’re On Lunch Break”
Lubbock-Cooper High School senior DeTayevion “Taye” Lang—a 17-year-old Black student with a straight-A average—is currently…
LISD Invents a Spreadsheet to Decide Which Schools Live, While the State Sharpens the Axe
Lubbock ISD has unveiled its shiny new District Optimization Framework, a very official-sounding checklist to…
MLK Day, Confederate Heroes Day, and a 74-Page Campaign Flier Disguised as Law
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day — which, in Texas, also happens to be Confederate…
ICE Is Busy in Texas – Lubbock Pretends Not to Notice
While Lubbock’s local news continues its proud tradition of strategic silence, the rest of Texas…
LISD Forgot the Bus, Found a Scapegoat
The Lubbock Coalition of Black Democrats had to step in this weekend because Lubbock ISD…