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Explosions and Power Outages Shut Down Texas Tech Campus
A series of fires and a manhole explosion led officials to shut down the campus and send students home early for spring break.
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Explosions and Power Outages Shut Down Texas Tech Campus
A series of fires and a manhole explosion led officials to shut down the campus and send students home early for spring break.www.nytimes.com
or negligence??
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www.census.gov
People are moving back north? People are getting smarter?
Growth in Metro Areas Outpaced Nation
Population growth in U.S. metro areas as a whole was faster between 2023 and 2024 than in the previous year and outpaced that of the nation.
www.census.gov
People are moving back north? People are getting smarter?
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Growth in Metro Areas Outpaced Nation
Population growth in U.S. metro areas as a whole was faster between 2023 and 2024 than in the previous year and outpaced that of the nation.
People are moving back north? People are getting smarter?
saw an article in passing yesterday that NYC is back to pre-pandemic population
a lot of that suburban/country life red state good slop isn't what it's crack up to be people have found out
I mean the statistics say it all but hey
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No government and no road isn't good when everyone else moves there!saw an article in passing yesterday that NYC is back to pre-pandemic population
a lot of that suburban/country life red state good slop isn't what it's crack up to be people have found out
I mean the statistics say it all but hey
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Don't forget they freed the slaves and them illegal immigrants. We're full!
wonder there's air to breathe
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Growth in Metro Areas Outpaced Nation
Population growth in U.S. metro areas as a whole was faster between 2023 and 2024 than in the previous year and outpaced that of the nation.
People are moving back north? People are getting smarter?
ADevilYouKhow
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Texas Midwife Charged in Abortion Case
The two arrests in greater Houston appear to be the first time abortion providers have been charged with violating abortion bans in their state since Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022.
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Women in Texas Are Dying
Republicans pressured to “clarify” state abortion ban
Dan Rather
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Team Steady
Mar 19, 2025
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The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has faded from the headlines, but the consequences of the ruling — sometimes deadly — are still playing out, especially here in Texas.
Three years later, it’s horrifyingly obvious the Texas legislature went too far. Way too far. In their zeal to stop abortions, the Republican-controlled legislature seems to have forgotten about the mothers. Women in the state have been refused treatment, some even dying since a total abortion ban became law.
So now, it is ironic to say the least to hear legislators — Republicans — admit that their total abortion ban needs “clarification.” Two staunch anti-abortion legislators have put forth a bill to clarify when a doctor can perform an abortion.
The state’s abortion ban is contradictory and confusing. It allows for an exception only when patients have “a life-threatening physical condition.” The doctor performing the procedure must provide “the best opportunity for the unborn child to survive.”
With language this vague, but legal penalties exceptionally clear — performing an abortion is a second-degree felony, punishable by up to 20 years in prison and a $10,000 fine — doctors have erred on the side of the fetus. They have hesitated or simply failed to act to save a woman’s life out of fear of prosecution and professional ruin.
This week, Republican State Representative Charlie Geren put forth the Life of the Mother Act in the Texas House. A similar bill was introduced in the state Senate. While the new law wouldn’t expand abortion access, it would spell out the circumstances in which doctors are allowed to provide abortion: if the woman “has a physical condition” from pregnancy that puts her “at risk of death or poses a serious risk of substantial impairment of a major bodily function unless the abortion is performed or induced.”
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe, many states imposed partial or total abortion bans. Texas is among the 12 states that passed a total ban. The law is called the Texas Heartbeat Act, because no abortion, even one to save a woman’s life, can be performed if a fetal heartbeat is detected.
Waiting for a fetal heart to stop beating in a miscarrying woman is dangerous and can be deadly. Waiting exposes the woman to infection, which often develops into sepsis. Sepsis is a body’s extreme reaction to an untreated infection. It can cause kidney failure, brain damage, and worse. For some Texas women who have miscarried, it has caused death.
Geren, a committed anti-abortion voice, said that clarifying Texas’s ban is the “most important” legislation of his 24-year career.
“Too many women have suffered. Too many have died,” Geren said at a news conference this week. “If one has died it’s too many, and more have. I have friends whose wives can no longer conceive because of the problems they went through with their first pregnancy and the delay that doctors face in addressing the problems.”
Not to diminish Geren’s recent sentiments, but a near ban was put in place in 2021 and a total ban in 2022. Where has he been for the ensuing years as women in his state were needlessly dying?
Geren may have friends who have been affected by the ban, but because of great investigative work by ProPublica, we now have more than anecdotal evidence. In an article titled “Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did,” the independent media organization looked at seven years of data to determine how the ban has affected maternal health in Texas. The news isn’t good.
The state does have a maternal mortality review committee, but to date it has failed to do its job. There has been no examination of death rates since the ban went into effect.
ProPublica found that, since the ban, incidence of sepsis has increased by more than 50% for women who had second-trimester miscarriages. In these cases, the standard of care is to evacuate the uterus. If doctors have to wait for the fetal heartbeat to stop, the woman is often exposed to deadly bacteria.
ProPublica also counted 120 deaths of hospitalized pregnant women, a massive increase. One of those women was Josseli Barnica, a 28-year-old mother who had a miscarriage at 17 weeks pregnant. Doctors told her she couldn’t get treatment until they could no longer detect a fetal heartbeat. So they waited. She died of sepsis. More than a dozen medical experts who reviewed her case told ProPublica Barnica’s death was preventable.
Doctors and other medical professionals warned that women would die because of abortion bans. “This is exactly what we predicted would happen and exactly what we were afraid would happen,” Dr. Lorie Harper, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist, told ProPublica.
Lest you think Texas is getting soft, the state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton, has made his first abortion provider arrests this week. After a monthlong investigation, he arrested a midwife and her assistant. But sadly, a pregnant woman turning to a midwife for an abortion is also what was predicted would happen if abortion was banned.
ProPublica’s excellent reporting has shed light on the problems in Texas. While the clarifying law will help save some women, 11 other states have total bans, and an additional 10 have very restrictive laws on their books. The women in those states are also suffering at the hands of legislators who think they know better than doctors.
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Stay Steady,
Dan
Federal Investigators Were Preparing Two Texas Housing Discrimination Cases — Until Trump Took Over
The government spent years probing allegations that a Dallas HOA created rules to kick poor Black people out and that Texas discriminated against minority residents in Houston after Hurricane Harvey, only to suddenly reverse course under Trump.
www.propublica.org
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We moved from New York to Texas 8 years ago. I'm still struggling to adjust and grieving the life I wanted for my kids.
My husband moved our family from New York City to Texas years ago. We got divorced, it doesn't feel like home, and I don't like raising my kids here.
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We moved from New York to Texas 8 years ago. I'm still struggling to adjust and grieving the life I wanted for my kids.
My husband moved our family from New York City to Texas years ago. We got divorced, it doesn't feel like home, and I don't like raising my kids here.
@the next guy
We moved from New York to Texas 8 years ago. I'm still struggling to adjust and grieving the life I wanted for my kids.
My husband moved our family from New York City to Texas years ago. We got divorced, it doesn't feel like home, and I don't like raising my kids here.
www.businessinsider.com
We moved from New York to Texas 8 years ago. I'm still struggling to adjust and grieving the life I wanted for my kids.
Essay by Isobella Jade
I always pictured raising my children in New York City, but now we're building a life in Houston. Bill Barfield/Getty Images
- When my family moved from New York City to Texas, I didn't think it'd be permanent.
- My husband and I got divorced after the move, so now we're raising our kids here.
- My children seem happy in Texas, but I would've preferred to raise them in New York City.
When my family moved from New York City to Texas eight years ago, I didn't think we'd be there for very long.
I'd grown up in New York and had been happily embracing motherhood there with my 18-month-old daughter and 3-year-old son. However, my husband at the time was tired of the East Coast and wanted to move back to his hometown of Houston.
I was heartbroken but didn't feel like I had much of a choice since he was the breadwinner.
New York was always home for me, so I figured we'd be back. Unfortunately, the move didn't end up being as temporary as I'd hoped.
A few years later, we got divorced. I realized it would be nearly impossible for me to move our children back to New York without disrupting their lives or our custody agreement.
So, I've lived in Texas for almost a decade now. It still doesn't feel like home to me, and I'm still struggling to adjust to raising my kids in a place so different than where I'm from.
Our lives in Texas look nothing like I pictured them in New York
Living in Houston can require a lot of driving. Jeremy Poland/Getty Images
Although my kids are happy in their schools and have lots of friends, busy social lives, and great sports programs, Houston isn't where I would've chosen to raise them.
In New York City, I'd looked forward to many more years of walking my kids to our favorite playgrounds, parks, bookstores, and cafés — all within a 10-block radius of our home. When walking was too far, I liked knowing our extracurriculars and excursions would be just a subway or bus ride away.
Here, I have to drive us anywhere and everywhere. Public transit is limited, and walking to our destination is rarely an option.
Houston's neighborhoods are spread out, which means driving over 30 minutes to take my daughter to basketball practice and even longer to get my son to soccer.
The city's highways get pretty congested, and Interstate 10 is especially daunting to navigate — some parts of the freeway have over a dozen lanes of traffic. My gas and car insurance costs add up, too.
If we were still in New York City, I wouldn't even need to have a car.
We've had to learn how to prepare for hurricanes while living near the Gulf Coast. Mathew Risley/Getty Images
Although no city is perfect, living near the Gulf Coast has also given me new anxieties.
Houston is at risk for hurricanes, rainstorms, and flooding for much of the year. This past summer, when Hurricane Beryl took out our power for a week, I spent over $1,500 on meals and lodging.
I love being outside with my kids, and the coast has some nice beaches. Even so, we had great outdoor spots in New York, from the trees in Central Park to the hills of the Hudson Valley.
And, sure, Texas has lots of sunshine — but summers can feel scorching with frequent daily temperatures in the 90s. They make me miss the milder summers of the Northeast, which only reminds me that my kids won't grow up experiencing the seasons like I did.
Watching falling autumn leaves and fresh snowfall were highlights of my childhood in New York. I still feel sad that my kids will miss out on that exciting feeling of a new beginning each time the seasons change.
I wouldn't have chosen to raise my kids in Texas, but I'm trying to make the best of it
My kids won't grow up watching the seasons change in New York City every year. Travel_Motion/Getty Images
Every place has its pros and cons — and maybe it's easy to idealize the childhood I thought my kids would have in New York City now that it's not an option.
However, I still feel grief about raising my kids in Texas and had hoped I would've adjusted to life here by now.
When I'm homesick, I remind my kids of their roots and family in Manhattan and Astoria, where leaves change color in the fall and streets are walkable. I'm also planning to take them on a trip to New York soon and can't wait.
The Lone Star state may never feel like home to me, but I know it's special to my children, and they'll make many great memories here.
Just as I miss New York, they may one day long for the place they grew up: Texas.