Brad Burt

Reporter w/ Lubbock @NPR, @TTUPublicMedia. Formerly @KCBD11 Digital - epileptic news junkie. Will write for coffee.

[Brad Burt @BeeSquared76]

@travisbubenik @MarfaRadio Well deserved! Congratulations, man!

[Travis Bubenik @travisbubenik]

"It'd be like taking a knife to the Mona Lisa, and just cutting it in two and leaving that rent scar across it." - Raymond Skiles, decades-long Big Bend area wildlife biologist.

Good reporting from @celizario: https://t.co/AaEcXHh6cr

[Travis Bubenik @travisbubenik]

Confused about Big Bend area border wall plans? Can't blame ya.

Here's a big picture look at where it all stands right now, from @MarfaRadio: https://t.co/7ZDqIFh6cy

[Brad Burt @BeeSquared76]

As is so often the case, Drew’s right

[Drew Landry @drewllandry]

Small thread (1/4):

I am one of like 20 Lubbockites who argues The Hub City needs a @MiLB team.

The argument thrown back to me is "we have Tech baseball."

I know that.

But as great as Tech baseball/softball is, it ends in maybe early June.

[Dylan Baddour @DylanBaddour]

Great work by @luciov120 on NPR yesterday

"You're talking about job loss. You're talking about a real potential for economic downturn in this region," the Corpus Christi city manager said.

https://t.co/ihxfZKVWtU

[Brad Burt @BeeSquared76]

Lubbock radio @KFYO reporting that longtime host @ChadHastyRadio passed away Thursday morning.

https://t.co/hoAVWmp5kc

[Christopher Hooks @cd_hooks]

You know what they say: All roads pass through Lubbock. https://t.co/oryG2A0nol

[Brad Burt @BeeSquared76]

Lowest early voting turnout for a Lubbock May municipal election in at least 20 years: 7,861 voters.

The closest was 2014: 8,288 voters, ~72% of the total turnout that year

[Neena Satija @neenareports]

NEW: Absent a biblical rainfall event this summer, Corpus Christi will be the first American city in modern history to run out of water. 💦
Schools & hospitals hope to drill wells. Lawns are dry. How will petrochemical plants handle it? We don’t know.
https://t.co/psk7ZU2Jfa

[Mateo Rosiles @MateoRosilesTX]

The race for Lubbock mayor is underway.
Join @ttupublicmedia & the @lubbockonline for the Lubbock 2026 Mayoral Candidate Forum.
🗓 Wed., April 15 | ⏰ 6 p.m.
📍 Mahon Public Library
Free & open to the public.

[Travis Bubenik @travisbubenik]

Border wall plans now expanded to include Big Bend National Park.

Still a lot we don't know - notably, the park/NPS is not answering questions about any of this - but here's what we do know at @MarfaRadio: https://t.co/6orPXOeZk6

[Brad Burt @BeeSquared76]

Lubbock gets haboobs for mardis gras

[Brad Burt @BeeSquared76]

It’s official. Can’t see downtown Lubbock from my office anymore

[Brad Burt @BeeSquared76]

It’s official. Can’t see downtown Lubbock from my office anymore

[Travis Bubenik @travisbubenik]

A preliminary federal notice out today says DHS is moving to waive environmental regs to speed up border wall building here in the Big Bend region of West Texas.

Latest for @MarfaRadio: https://t.co/cTGm8nHZV0

[Brad Burt @BeeSquared76]

❤️
@TexasStandard

https://t.co/Kg1QaG9YSF

[Texas Tech Public Media @ttupublicmedia]

An event organized by a student group intended to discuss abortion was cancelled by the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center late last month, after backlash from conservative activists and Turning Point USA at Texas Tech.

https://t.co/RNxmYvXQfs

[Suzanne Bellsnyder @sbellsnyder]

If You’re Explaining, You’re Losing
Read it:
https://t.co/8mQEVjE1Sr

[Andrew Schneider @ASchneider_HPM]

Texas faith leaders divided over school prayer, Bible reading periods as deadline for SB 11 approaches https://t.co/bCFCceblYf

[Samantha Larned @samantha_larned]

"@TTUHSC drove a stake in the ground in West Texas and said, ‘We're never departing from this.'"

Throughout Covid and beyond, the Institute of Anatomical Sciences has continued to innovate, educate, and serve the West Texas community with dignity.

https://t.co/ALRN8Dv9vx

[KCBD NewsChannel11 @KCBD11]

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