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Patients should feel empowered to speak up and expect to be heard. Credit: Getty Images

Is Your Health Care Provider Really Listening To You?

Friday, August 22, 2025

When you visit a doctor, you expect them to listen. But in today’s fast-paced health care system, real listening — the kind that makes you feel seen, heard and understood — can be the first thing to go.A new article, co-authored by Dr.

Researchers at Texas A&M University have created a Nationwide Power System Vulnerability Index that assigns individual counties a rating based on their likelihood of being affected by power outages. Credit: Urban Resilience AI Lab

Texas A&M Researchers Map America’s Power Outage Hot Spots Using AI

Texas A&m University System Staff

Friday, August 22, 2025

Hurricane Beryl, Winter Storm Uri and other severe weather events have increased long-term power outages for Texas residents in recent years. But this issue does not just affect Texans.

Buc-ee’s products are now available at three locations on the campus of Texas A&M University. Credit: Laura McKenzie/Texas A&M University Division of Marketing and Communications

Buc-ee’s Items Now Available At Texas A&M University

Texas A&m University System Staff

Friday, August 22, 2025

Texas A&M University students will not have to hit the road to grab some of America’s most beloved snacks as the university becomes the first in the country to partner with Buc-ee’s to bring more than 45 of the Texas brand’s most popular products to three locations on the university’s main campus...

Texas Gulf Shrimp | Courtesy Texas Department of Agriculture

Commissioner Sid Miller Warns Of Radioactive Foreign Shrimp

Sid Miller; Texas Agriculture Commissioner

Friday, August 22, 2025

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller today highlighted a recent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warning advising Americans not to eat, sell, or serve certain imported frozen shrimp from an Indonesian firm.

New funding brings cancer screenings to more uninsured women in rural Texas

Texas A&m University Health Science Center

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Thousands of uninsured and underinsured women in rural Texas will soon have access to potentially lifesaving cancer screening and prevention services, thanks to a newly awarded $2.5 million grant.

State Library awards $4.1 million in Grants to Texas Public Libraries

Texas State Library And Archives Commission

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Austin, TX – The Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) has announced $4,107,388 in grants for libraries across the state in 2025-2026 through its Library Infrastructure Facility Improvement (LIFI) Grants. Agency commissioners awarded the grants in July to 37 libraries.

Help for Texas farmers, ranchers recover from recent Hill Country floods

U.s. Department Of Agriculture

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

U.S. Department of Agriculture NRCS has emergency conservation funds to help Texas farmers and ranchers recover from recent Hill Country floods.

Texas Game Wardens near conclusion of ‘Ghost Deer’ case with 24 Suspects, 1,400 charges filed statewide

Texas Game Wardens

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

The Texas Game Warden investigation known as 'Ghost Deer' has reached a possible conclusion after two additional suspects turned themselves in on felony charges. This brings the total number of individuals implicated in the case to 24, with approximately 1,400 charges filed across 11 Texas counties.

Texas Farm Bureau President Russell Boening

Texas Farm Bureau commends funding, construction of domestic sterile fly production facility

Texas Farm Bureau

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

August 18, 2025The following statement may be attributed to Texas Farm Bureau President Russell Boening following today's New World screwworm announcement in Austin by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins.

Texas Agriculture Commission Sid Miller

Good news on school nutrition

Sid Miller / Texas Agriculture Commissioner

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller today (August 12, 2025) announced that students eligible for reduced-price meals can now receive school meals at no cost to their families.

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