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Here's a preview of today's show. Below, host David Brown has more:
When storms like Hurricane Ian fill the headlines, we sometimes look to our own experiences for parallels.
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The rapid advance of Ian off the coast of Florida has many experts concerned about the similarities to another storm many Texans recall all too well.
Like Ian,
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Hurricane Harvey unexpectedly built-up speed in August 2019 as it moved inland. But it wasn't the wind that caused so much damage – it was the water. As it stalled over land, the catastrophic flooding led to more than 100 deaths and property losses still being accounted for to this day.
As we continue to track Ian – one of the few major storms we've seen so far in what was projected to be a busy hurricane season – we're looking at what lessons might be gathered from the Texas experience. That has become something of a theme as we've reported on our changing climate and the infrastructure we've developed to deal with such events. The winter storm of 2021 exposed the vulnerabilities of our approach to electricity supply and distribution, and a new report suggests
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Texas has a ways to go to deal with future weather emergencies.
Sometimes, the threat is not a natural disaster, but a catastrophe that's man-made – and invisible to most yet devastating to those affected. This week, we spoke with one of the authors of a new investigative report by the Austin American-Statesman on a
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crisis enveloping Texas' Medicaid waiver system , which is designed to help Texans with special needs and disabilities – though it may, in fact, may be harming many and sweeping their stories out of the line of sight.
Also in this week’s newsletter: how Texas students, their parents and school personnel far from Uvalde remain
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traumatized by the mass shooting there last May. We encourage you to get caught up on those items you may have missed below, and make sure you stop by
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How Texas’ system for providing care for the disabled fails them
A crisis is enveloping Texas’ Medicaid waiver system, which pays contractors to care for Texans with disabilities and special needs.
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Report: Texas has the most major power outages of any state in the U.S.
An environmental advocacy group’s report warns “as extreme weather events become more common and electrical infrastructure continues to age, the number of outages is only likely to increase.”
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San Antonio incident highlights lasting trauma from Uvalde shooting
A false alarm led parents to rush Jefferson High School and clash with police. "We see it with school shootings – the closer you are to the trauma, the worse you are from a behavioral and a psychological perspective."
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H-E-B madness grips North Texas as first Metroplex store opens in Frisco
"It had like a Black Friday flavor to it because there were 1,500 people in line by 6 a.m., and it took 24 minutes for them to file in all through the day."
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Texas AG Paxton won’t be required to appear in court after reportedly dodging a subpoena
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Years ago, Austin set affordable housing goals. The city is far from accomplishing them.
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Harris County budget, property tax discussions stall as GOP commissioners again boycott tax vote
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Raped, abused, and trafficked but no one to blame? How Texas failed Shawna Rogers.
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The Talk of Texas is running down the state’s entire 254 counties – Anderson to Zavala – with points of interest pulled from the Texas Standard archives.
Is there a can't-miss attraction in your area?
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Brown County
Founded: 1858
County seat: Brownwood
Population: 38,095
Way out west? Brown is described as a county in Central-West Texas, but we might have a quibble with the “West” part. In what may have been the Standard’s most controversial segment ever, we tried to determine
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just where West Texas begins . Going off a map of oak tree growth, Brown and county seat Brownwood don’t make the cut. Sorry! (Got your own take on where it starts?
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Reach out! ) But Brown can take some consolation in its delightfully named towns, like Blanket, Early and Bangs.
Pandemics then and now: Our commentator W.F. Strong
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took stock of things back at the end of 2017 – well before the COVID pandemic – and teased out a connection between one of Brown’s most famous natives and the so-called “Spanish flu” pandemic a century prior. Strong notes Texas writer Katherine Anne Porter – who was born in the town of Indian Creek – was sick with influenza as a child and later wrote a novella based on the pandemic called “Pale Horse, Pale Rider.”
One last thing: What happens to football when all the men are gone to war? In Brownwood,
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the women took over coaching duties.
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- Anthony Head
Author Anthony Head and photographer Kirk Weddle profiled a dozen upstanding dive bars – no dumps! – in their new book, “Texas Dives: Enduring Neighborhood Bars of the Lone Star State.”
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