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Analysis: Some Texas officials would love to redirect your attention Texas Tribune Tags:  Credit: Bob Daemmrich for The Texas Tribune Editor's note: If you'd like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramsey's 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 vulnerability to distraction. President Donald Trump has shaped his understanding of our traits into performa...

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 Editor's note: If you'd like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramsey's 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 our short attention spans and vulnerability to distraction. President Donald Trump has shaped his...

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 volunteers worked together to offer free community drive-through testing weekly at the Tech Center a...

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 59 of the employees that have recovered since the start of the outbreak,” Root said. The county�...

Treacherous trip through the migrant's 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. they're not tracked in donald trump's twitter feed. they're going deep into debt, spending everything they have and enriching an increasingly sophisticated network of coyotes, stash houses, 18-wheeler drivers and then when they do get across the border, a lot of them think they're going to be home free but then they