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Oregon reports 989 new cases, 6 deaths as health officials share ‘not-so-good’ coronavirus update with lawmakers OregonLive.com 2 hrs ago Laura Gunderson, oregonlive.com Oregon health officials announced six new coronavirus-related deaths on Wednesday as well as 989 new or presumptive cases, continuing the troubling upward trajectory seen across the state in recent weeks. An hour before the public data release, Oregon Health Authority Director Patrick Allen told a House legislative COVID-19 subcommittee “there’s a fair amount of not-so-good news in our update this we...

Houston, We Have a Problem: The Chronicle Misleads on Election Integrity Share To lead off its editorial railing against Senate Bill 7 and efforts to reform—or at least regularize—the rules for voting in Texas, the Houston Chronicle evokes the White Man’s Primary Association of Dimmit County. But like the editorial itself, there’s far less here than meets the eye. It’s true that in tiny Dimmit County in South Texas, white Democrats established white-only primaries and sought other ways to disenfranchise newly freed Blacks. But what’s the link between that practice (struck down by ...

‘I’ve lost count’: Constable says human smuggling chases increasing in Dimmit County Migrants pushed out, others jumped out of moving vehicle in Dimmit County, constable says Tags:  BIG WELLS, Texas – Dimmit County Precinct 3 Constable Robert Balderas says chases involving human smuggling have become common in recent weeks in the area. Balderas said one of the wild and scariest chases he’s even been in, where nine men were pushed or bailed out on their own from a moving vehicle, happened in March. “We had multiple individuals get pushed out of the vehicle onto the highway to, I g...

Feds Open Two More Unaccompanied Migrant Child Detention Centers in West Texas 6 Apr 2021 Continuing a recent trend, Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the opening of two more Emergency Intake Sites (EIS) to hold unaccompanied children out of Customs and Border Protection custody. The move mirrors recent announcements by HHS to address the surge in unaccompanied child migrants (UACs) at the southern border. New EIS facilities will be located at two existing sites in Dimmit and Pecos Counties, Texas. The sites add capacity to receive another 2,440 minors from Border Patrol facilities. T...

These Counties Are Projected to Have the Most Extreme Heat in 2050 By Katelyn Leboff, Stacker News On 3/2/21 at 8:00 PM EST Climate change and global warming are nothing new—though, some are still in denial of the existence and negative impacts of these phenomena. Though the media lives for hyping up big weather phenomena, actual scientific research and data reveal the earth is, in fact, heating up at an alarming rate. Much of global warming is the product of greenhouse gas emissions caused by humans and their activities. In the 20th century, the world saw a 1.44-degree Fahrenheit increa...