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By Jaden Edison, Jess Huff, Pooja Salhotra and Kayla Guo, The Texas Tribune July 11, 2024 “Days after Beryl, Texans toil to cope with debris, heat, rain and no power” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics,…

Dear New Diana ISD Family, It is with deep sorrow that I share the heartbreaking news of the passing of one of our beloved students, Amy Marzano. Amy, who was going to be a junior this upcoming school year, was a dedicated majorette in the New Diana ISD High School Band. During majorette practice at…

Power successfully restored to approximately 80% of customers.   What You Need to Know Beryl was a beast and left more than 2 million Texans without power when it first made landfall and continued to barrel through the ArkLaTex on Monday, unleashing a barrage of severe weather. As of 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, power has been…

By Pooja Salhotra, Stephen Simpson, Alejandra Martinez, Jess Huff and Kayla Guo, The Texas Tribune July 8, 2024 “Beryl updates: At least nine dead; power outages could persist for days” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics,…

By Pooja Salhotra, Stephen Simpson, Alejandra Martinez and Jess Huff, The Texas Tribune July 8, 2024 “Tropical Storm Beryl updates: Millions without power as storm moves from Houston to East Texas” was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy,…

By Jim “Pappy” Moore The most serious misconduct of the Biden administration has been orchestrating the heinous attack on his chief political opponents in the form of criminal prosecutions and civil lawsuits, all of which have arisen in Democrat strongholds, with Democrat prosecutors acting as partisans. House Democrats impeached President Trump twice, and both times…

Urges Final Preparations Before Storm Impacts AUSTIN – Acting Governor Dan Patrick today urged Texans to make final preparations and announced that he has added 81 counties to the state’s Hurricane Beryl Disaster Declaration as storm forecasts have shifted the expected landfall north and east of previous projections. This brings the total number of Texas counties included in…

By Jim “Pappy” Moore With so many important cases in the news, it might be good to think about some of the funny things that can happen in trial. While trying cases and otherwise appearing in court is serious business, one should seldom pass up an opportunity to have a humorous moment.  Years ago, an…

By Jim “Pappy” Moore The end of the Joe Biden Era came on a summer night in a debate hosted by his longtime supporters at CNN. June 27, 2024 will long be remembered as the night Joe Biden stuck his presidency in the ditch by mumbling his way incoherently through one bad answer after another. …