Opinion

Taking time to freeze

Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:00am

Hope everyone found ways to stay warm last week and finds ways to stay as dry as possible this week. I’ll be honest with you – this week’s column literally escaped me up until Monday, just before we send the paper off to be printed. I didn’t have any epiphanies last week. I tried to stay warm and just relaxed as much as possible. For the first time in a while, there was no voice in my head nagging me to do more, as I often do. There was just peace and rest.

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Capital Highlights

Thu, 01/25/2024 - 12:00am

The U.S. Justice Department issued a scathing report late last week on the May 4, 2022, mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, the Austin American-Statesman reported.

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Weather outlooks

Thu, 01/18/2024 - 5:00am

As you no doubt noticed, this has been a cold week. This being Texas, of course we had nearly 70 degree weather in the same weekend the temperatures dropped sharply and we had winter storm warnings.

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Quakes prompt officials to limit disposal wells

Thu, 01/18/2024 - 5:00am

The Texas Railroad Commission has suspended nearly two dozen permits that allow oil and gas companies to inject saltwater into the ground, which regulators say has contributed to increased earthquakes of greater magnitude in West Texas. The Austin American Statesman reported the 23 disposal wells hold hundreds of thousands of barrels of produced water, which is a toxic brine. A 2022 report said the state generated 3.9 billion barrels of produced water from extracting oil and gas.