Page 5 - Jay Root News Today

Analysis: Some Texas officials would love to redirect your attention Texas Tribune Tags:  Credit: Bob Daemmrich for The Texas Tribune Editors note: If youd like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramseys column, click here. If you would like to listen to the column, just click on the play button below. (Audio unavailable. Click here to listen on texastribune.org.) A surprising number of political reputations would collapse without the benefit of our short attention spans and vulnerabilit...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton spoke in the Texas Senate chamber after his swearing-in ceremony in early January 2015 as Greg Abbott, governor-elect at the time, listened. Credit: Bob Daemmrich for The Texas Tribune Editors note: If youd like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramseys column, click here. If you would like to listen to the column, just click on the play button below. A surprising number of political reputations would collapse without the benefit of ...

Health department changes focus to vaccine Mineral Daily News-Tribune Tribune Managing Editor KEYSER - As they begin to prepare for the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccine in Mineral County, the health department is now offering a different type of community testing for the virus. For several weeks since the virus began to hit Mineral County especially hard, health department staff, along with Mineral County Schools, the Mineral County Technical Center Nursing Program, the National Guard and other ...

Mineral County passes 50 COVID-related deaths Mineral Daily News-Tribune KEYSER - Mineral County has reported its 52nd death due to COVID-19. Mineral County Health Department administrator A.Jay Root confirmed Monday that an additional five Mineral County residents had succumbed to the virus. The 48th, 49th and 50th victims were all residents of Piney Valley Nursing Home. “This brings the total to 28 resident deaths, 97 residents and 71 employees testing positive, with 50 of the residents and...

Treacherous trip through the migrants smuggling industry" by jay root. >> you have a story that represents clearly most of the people trying to escape where they live in honduras, guatemala. tell us who these people are and tell us their story. >> we hear a lot about caravans. theyre not tracked in donald trumps twitter feed. theyre going deep into debt, spending everything they have and enriching an increasingly sophisticated network of coyotes, stash houses, 18-wheeler drivers and then when th...

They werent free to go until they paid $3,000 basically and then they got the password and they were allowed to cross in this boat and they turned themselves in and they thought now we go turn ourselves in to border patrol, they had no idea they were going to get separated from each other, this father and daughter. >> victoria, the story that jay is describing is the story of a father who chose to bring along a young child on a very perilous journey. yesterday we listened to secretary nielsen co...

A statement was provided to the tribune saying quote, it is unprofessional and unfair for a media corporation to report without names. the father asked to coop his identity secret because eggs afraid of retaliation. we have seen people pictured crossing the border being targeted this. man has not yet been deported. not been reunited with his daughter heert. jay root joins us. this is a tricky one. i.c.e. questioned the journalistic integrity of the texas tribune in publishing this story without ...