To Keep Medicaid, Mom Caring for Disabled Adult Son Faces Prospect of Proving She Works
By Bram Sable-Smith July 3, 2025 Four years before Kimberly Gallagher enrolled in Medicaid herself, the public health insurance program’s rules prompted her to make an excruciating choice — to give up guardianship of her son so she could work as his caregiver. Now, another proposed twist in the rules could mean that, even though…
Read More‘MAHA Report’ Calls for Fighting Chronic Disease, but Trump and Kennedy Have Yanked Funding
By David Hilzenrath July 2, 2025 The Trump administration has declared that it will aggressively combat chronic disease in America. Yet in its feverish purge of federal health programs, it has proposed eliminating the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and its annual funding of $1.4 billion. That’s one of many disconnects…
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Trump’s First EPA Promised to Crack Down on Forever Chemicals. His Second EPA Is Pulling Back.
By Anna Clark ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. One summer day in 2017, a front-page story in the StarNews of Wilmington, North Carolina, shook up the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. The drinking water system,…
Read MoreKimbell Presents “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection,” September 14, 2025–January 25, 2026
July 2, 2025 FORT WORTH, TX— The Kimbell Art Museum will present the special exhibition Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection from September 14, 2025, through January 25, 2026, in the Renzo Piano Pavilion. This exhibition brings to North America for the first time a selection of fifty-eight rarely seen…
Read MoreTexarkana inmate receives additional sentence for injuring corrections officer
TEXARKANA, Texas – A federal inmate has received an additional prison sentence for assaulting a correctional officer in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jay R. Combs. Andrew Hunter, 23, of Mount Pleasant, pleaded guilty to assaulting a federal officer and was sentenced to an additional 18 months in federal prison…
Read MoreTDEM Activates State Emergency Response Resources Ahead Of West, Central Texas Flood Threat
AUSTIN – The Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) today announced that the agency activated state emergency response resources in anticipation of increased threats of flooding in parts of West and Central Texas heading into the holiday weekend. “As rain and flooding threatens parts of Texas ahead of the Independence Day weekend, state emergency response…
Read MoreTEAMSTERS RATIFY CONTRACT AT TYSON
Union Secures Best-Ever Agreement at Largest Meat Producer in U.S. (AMARILLO, Texas) – Teamsters Local 577 members at Tyson Foods of Amarillo voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new four-year collective bargaining agreement that raises wages and expands benefits. “This victory is what Texas Teamsters are all about — coming together as one so we can…
Read MoreTo Cut Medicaid, the GOP’s Following a Path Often Used To Expand Health Care
By Julie Rovner, KFF Health News July 2, 2025 President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful” budget reconciliation bill would make some of the most sweeping changes in health policy in years, largely affecting Medicaid and Affordable Care Act plans — with reverberations felt throughout the health care system. With only a few exceptions, the budget…
Read MoreFamily loses home in fire, Gilmer fundraiser created for support
On July 1st, the Reeves family’s home was destroyed in a garage fire. They escaped with only their pets and the clothes on their backs. A GoFundMe was created to help the family rebuild. Per the GoFundMe: “They know no stranger, they cry when you cry, and celebrate when you celebrate.”
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