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Stella Chávez reflects on her time in Uvalde.
I arrived in Uvalde late Friday and headed straight to the makeshift memorial on the town square. I met two women who survived the mass shooting at Columbine. They’d flown in the day before and planned to leave the next day.
The women held signs that read: “We are…Columbine. We are…Robb. We are…with you!!!”
They told me they were there to support the community, to let them know they understood what they were going through, to listen and talk with them.
In fact, throughout my time in Uvalde, I was struck by the number of people who came from all over the country. Many of them were kids who had asked – insisted even – their parents to take them to visit the memorials on the town square and in front of Robb Elementary where 19 children and two teachers were gunned down.
The kids I talked to told me they felt strongly about being there. One 9-year-old girl I interviewed expressed anger and disbelief over the fact that 19 law enforcement officers were
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inside the school for over an hour before entering the classroom where the gunman was.
One thing she told me will stay with me forever. She said she’s scared a mass shooting could happen on her campus. As a former education reporter, I’ve interviewed countless number of young people. It’s the first time someone has said this to me. Sadly, I know she’s not the only one who feels this way.
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Uvalde school police, under scrutiny for shooting response, had recently completed shooter training
Police officers with the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District did their most recent active shooter training two months ago.
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Texas’ school security efforts after 2018 Santa Fe shooting largely ignore gun safety
Red flag laws have been discussed but failed to get traction in the past two legislative sessions. Republican politicians "immediately backed away” from the proposals.
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With domestic violence homicides rising in Texas, study explores guns’ role
"Way too many of these mass shooters are 18. We know a lot now about brain science. We know about the impulsivity, the lack of … prefrontal cortex, where we usually decide whether or not to do something."
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How a school walkout in Uvalde helped spark the 1970s Chicano rights movement
Mexican American students in the South Texas town walked out in protest of unequal treatment by the white-run school system.
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Gov. Abbott falsely claims background checks would not have prevented Sutherland Springs shooting
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Austin plans to effectively decriminalize abortion if Supreme Court overturns 'Roe'
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TCU research uncovers ‘indispensable’ contributions of formerly enslaved couple
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The U.S. Supreme Court has once again blocked Texas’ controversial social media law
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The Talk of Texas is running down the state’s entire 254 counties – Anderson to Zavala – with points of interest pulled from the Texas Standard archives.
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Bailey CountyEstablished: 1876
County seat: Muleshoe
Population: 6,904
Panhandle politics: Butting up against the New Mexico state line in the Panhandle, Bailey County is a rock-ribbed Republican area. In 2018, we
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reported on the Republican primary in incumbent state Sen. Kel Seliger’s district,
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which stretches from Amarillo through Bailey County and down into Odessa. He held on after a primary challenge from the right – but is retiring this year.
If a tree falls: “The Mayor of Baileyboro” doesn’t have anything to do with politics. Instead, it was a massive, 130-year-old tree farmer and rancher Lacey Carter Vardeman sought to honor after it was cut down. Upon seeing the massive elm was felled during her trips across Bailey County, she procured a 34-foot gooseneck trailer to haul a
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five-ton hunk of the trunk home to her ranch.
One more thing: There’s no shortage of creative names for Texas communities. But your editor is particularly enamored with several of Bailey County’s
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unincorporated communities :
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Baileyboro
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Circle Back
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Goodland
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Needmore
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Progress
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- State Sen. Roland Gutierrez
On air, an audibly shaken Sen. Roland Gutierrez – a Texas legislator who represents Uvalde – is
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called on Gov. Abbott for action . “(He) says all the nice things in the beginning. And then he quietly hides under his desk while the news media goes away.”
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