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Tarrant County Judge Tim O’Hare at a Commissioners Court meeting in Fort Worth on April 18, 2023

In Texas’ biggest purple county, this far-right Republican is creating a playbook for local governing

By Robert Downen, The Texas Tribune and Jeremy Schwartz The Texas Tribune and ProPublicaOct. 11, 2024

From cutting social services to changing election rules, Tarrant County Judge Tim O’Hare has pushed his agenda with an uncompromising approach.

First-year educator Amanda Garza McIntyre interacts with her students at Freeport Intermediate School in Freeport on Aug. 16, 2024. McIntyre transitioned from being an administrative assistant at a construction company to becoming an eighth grade science teacher through the help of a Freeport Intermediate School preparation program.

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Texas schools are hiring more teachers without traditional training. They hope the state will pay to prepare them.

By Jaden Edison and Data reporting by Elijah Nicholson-MessmerSept. 4, 2024

Schools are hiring instructors with different types of backgrounds to deal with critical staff shortages.

Cardiologist Paolo Pattoneri runs into several of his patients that see him at the community health clinic in San Secondo Parmense outside Parma, Italy.

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What Texas can learn from Italy’s big bet on tiny community health homes

By Eleanor Klibanoff, Graphics by Yuriko Schumacher and Photos by Margherita MirabellaSept. 3, 2024

In Italy, as in Texas, funding hospitals over primary care leaves many feeling “medically homeless.” Italy’s post-COVID plans show another way.

2024 Texas Elections

Here’s your ballot for the Nov. 5 Texas elections

By Carla AstudilloAug. 30, 2024

Texas voters will elect officials in the presidential, congressional, statewide and legislative races.

Mountain lions are generally found in remote mountains, canyonlands, or hilly areas with good cover. In Texas, they are found throughout the Trans-Pecos region, the brushlands of South Texas and parts of the Hill Country.

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Texas takes its first steps to protect its mountain lions

By Jakob Maurer and Graphics by Elijah Nicholson-MessmerAug. 30, 2024

While many other states limit hunting of the apex predator, Texas is only now introducing rules to ban canned hunts and require regular checking of traps.

Robert Shipp, 75, of Bastrop, sweats while receiving treatment inside an Austin-Travis County EMS ambulance on a 102 degree day outside Austin Wrench A Part in Del Valle on July 7, 2023. According to the EMS crew, he passed out while searching for car parts under the hot sun.

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Texas likely undercounting heat-related deaths

By Emily Foxhall, Alejandra Martinez and Yuriko Schumacher, The Texas Tribune and Dylan Baddour and Martha Pskowski Inside Climate NewsAug. 14, 2024

Deaths from heat are notoriously difficult to quantify because of how complex and subjective the process is. It leaves officials with an incomplete picture of who heat kills.

Craig Cowden points to a pump jack on his Breezy Point Ranch in Pampa on July 7. Cowden said he often spots problems with oilfield electrical equipment such as a pumpjack with faulty wiring or a power line lying on dead grass.

Panhandle Wildfires

Unregulated oilfield power lines are suspected of sparking Texas wildfires

By Emily Foxhall, Jayme Lozano Carver, Carlos Nogueras Ramos and Graphics by Elijah Nicholson-MessmerAug. 1, 2024

No state agency is taking responsibility for making sure the privately built lines that power many oil and gas sites are safe. Such lines have been blamed for sparking two recent Panhandle fires.