Texas Progressives talk vaxxes, raids and more

Expect more of this the next four years. A West Texas county with a kindergarten vaccine rate of just 84 percent is the center of a measles outbreak. 

TCEQ is way behind the curve on distributing money for a program designed to address leaking abandoned oil wells. Shock me. But? It's also laughable the lege only put $10 million in the program. Also shock me.

Yeah, the thought of the Railroad Commission actually regulating carbon dioxide injection capture wells is laughable. 

We've seen these massive immigrant raids in Tex-ass before. Back in Shrub Bush's presidency. The Monthly revisits Cactus, Texas, site of a massive 2006 raid.

Many Panhandle ranchers are struggling with recovery from last year's wildfires and some are selling. Here's a longform overview.

SocraticGadfly offers his thoughts on that crazy Luka-AD trade.

Off the Kuff is not impressed by Greg Abbott's loosely professed support for sports betting in Texas. 

Franklin Strong bemoans the end of the Department of Education's civil rights investigations into school book bans.  

CultureMap Austin considers the possibility of Lockhart becoming the state's live music capital.  

The Barbed Wire published a long expose on sexual harassment at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music.  

Deceleration shared photos from the San Antonio student walkouts that protested ICE raids and other anti-immigrant actions.  

Texas Monthly profiles Skye Perryman, president and CEO of the nonprofit Democracy Forward, which just scored a win in court against the Trump administration’s proposed buyouts of federal employees.

Neil at the Houston Democracy Project said John Whitmire’s narrow conception of public safety excludes traffic safety & fighting for democracy. 

Buffy Sainte-Marie has officially been stripped of her Order of Canada award over her pretendian claims.

White South Africans tell Trump "no thanks" on his offer of economic and persecuted refugee immigration.