Tag: texas

  • Texas Won't Help

    Texas will not be resettling refugees in the new fiscal year, Gov. Greg Abbott told federal officials Friday. Source: Gov. Greg Abbott Says Texas Won’t Resettle Refugees In 2020 Governor Greg Abbot is not opting Texas into the federal refugees settlement program. Under President Trump, the program changed to require specific opt-in by local officials.…

  • Texas Forever

    Texas Forever

    The Texas Standard, an public radio news show focused on, you guessed it, The Lone Star State. They had this wonderful folklore piece that, while you can read it on their site, is best experienced through the spoken voice, embedded above. I’m a Texan, through and through. Texans are full of themselves and their state.…

  • Visualized: How the insane amount of rain in Texas could turn Rhode Island into a lake

    Visualized: How the insane amount of rain in Texas could turn Rhode Island into a lake

    What 8 million acre-feet of water actually looks like. Source: Visualized: How the insane amount of rain in Texas could turn Rhode Island into a lake The Washington Post has become my favorite dead pulp media outlet. Almost daily, there is a story or two I want to share here. In today’s round, 8 million…

  • Spitballs into a War

    But I think we could, in retrospect, with 20/20 hindsight, have sent a more robust hospital infection control team and been more hands-on with the hospital from day one about exactly how this should be managed.” Source: Second Health Worker Tests Positive For Ebola At Dallas Hospital : The Two-Way : NPR This is incredible.…

  • I will never forsake Texas…

    I will never forsake Texas and her cause. I am her son. «José Antonio Navarro»