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Public Health

What the Data Says About Electricity Shutoffs During Sweltering Texas Summers

The state's retail heat-advisory rule exempts municipal utilities or electric cooperatives. For those providers, federal data shows final notices continued through summer while actual disconnections varied sharply from one utility to another.

by Mezabahnur Masum

Keep Reading

Texas Maternal Mortality Committee’s Next Report Will Skip Post-‘Roe’ Deaths. Lawmakers Suspect Political Influence.

by Mary Tuma

Texas’ Refusal to Plan for Climate Change Created a Crisis in Corpus Christi 

by Dylan Baddour

Texas’ Fight Against the Screwworm Will Be Nasty and Brutish

by Christopher Collins

Jun 13, 2022

Texting for Reproductive Justice

At the Texas Equal Access Fund, volunteers help Texans navigate a reproductive health network devastated by Senate Bill 8.

by Morgan O'Hanlon

Mar 11, 2022

‘I Don’t Know Where It’s Safe’: Family of Trans Child Who Dined With Ken Paxton Is Facing Child Abuse Investigation

The Dallas-area family says it is under investigation by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services and at risk of losing their kids.

by Kate Sosin, The 19th

Feb 25, 2022

My Abortion Experience Inspired Me to Fight for Underage Youth

In Texas and 37 other states, minors seeking confidential reproductive health care must get a court order. They should be entrusted to make their own medical decisions.

by Graci D'Amore

Jan 26, 2022

The Omicron Variant Has Ravaged Texas Schools

The newest COVID-19 variant has wreaked havoc on public schools in the state, forcing closures as districts scramble for adequate staff.

by Christopher Collins

Dec 30, 2021

Are the poor subsidizing the University of Texas?

A new documentary alleges that $280 million reserved for indigent healthcare and hospitalization in Austin has been improperly diverted to Dell Medical School.

by Lise Olsen

Dec 13, 2021

COVID-19 Robbed Me of the Joys of Teaching

I thought remote instruction during the pandemic would be the worst of it. I was wrong.

by Marina Roberts

Dec 10, 2021

The Supreme Court Lets SB 8 Stand, But Allows Abortion Providers Their Day in Court

In an 8-to-1 ruling, the Justices ruled that lawsuits against Texas’ anti-abortion law could proceed, but left women in the state to suffer its consequences in the meantime.

by Mary Tuma

Dec 09, 2021

The EPA Placed a Texas Superfund Site on its National Priorities List in 2018. Why Is the Health Threat Still Unknown?

Predominantly Latino residents in Grand Prairie, west of Dallas, say they’ve been told little or nothing about air, soil and groundwater poisoned by TCE, a known human carcinogen.

by Alejandra Martinez

Dec 06, 2021

Texas Legislators Ask Biden Administration To Reinstate Planned Parenthood As Medicaid Provider

Democratic lawmakers say Texas’ new abortion ban compounds the many existing barriers to reproductive health care for the state’s poorest patients.

by Mary Tuma

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