https://www.texastribune.org/about/staff/jayme-lozano-carver/The latest news by Jayme Lozano Carver.enMon, 24 Mar 2025 05:00:00 -0500https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/24/texas-legislature-water-supply-infrastructure-repair-perry-harris/Gov. Greg Abbott has made water a priority for this legislative session. Lawmakers will debate whether to invest more into new water supplies or repairing old, leaking pipes around Texas.By Jayme Lozano Carver and Alejandra MartinezMon, 24 Mar 2025 05:00:00 -0500https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/24/texas-legislature-water-supply-infrastructure-repair-perry-harris/Sen. Charles Perry, R-Lubbock, during a Senate meeting on March 11, 2025.Sen. Charles Perry, R-Lubbock, during a Senate meeting on March 11, 2025.Lorianne Willett/The Texas Tribunehttps://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/19/texas-legislature-bills-wildfire-response/A proposal to create a statewide system connecting emergency personnel and agencies is among several bills that target problems exposed in 2024.By Jayme Lozano CarverWed, 19 Mar 2025 05:00:00 -0500https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/19/texas-legislature-bills-wildfire-response/Trees damaged by the 2024 Smokehouse Creek Fires line the sides of the main roads of Canadian, Texas, on Feb. 7, 2025. The Smokehouse Creek Fire is the largest wildfire in the state's history.Trees marked from the 2024 Smokehouse Creek Fires line the sides of the main roads of Canadian, Texas, Feb. 7, 2025. The Smokehouse Creek Fire is the largest wildfire in Texas history.Jacob Lujan for The Texas Tribunehttps://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/18/texas-covid-pandemic-readiness/Five years after Texas’ first COVID death, the state spends less on public health, vaccination rates have dropped and a distrust of authority has taken hold.By Terri Langford, Jayme Lozano Carver, Pooja Salhotra, Eleanor Klibanoff and Stephen Simpson, Graphics by Dan Keemahill and Yuriko SchumacherTue, 18 Mar 2025 05:00:00 -0500https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/18/texas-covid-pandemic-readiness/Illustration by Diana Branzan for The Texas Tribunehttps://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/17/texas-legislature-water-bills-tracker/Most lawmakers — as well as Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick — want to invest big in water. Here are the proposals that would do it.By Jayme Lozano Carver and Alejandra MartinezMon, 17 Mar 2025 05:00:00 -0500https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/17/texas-legislature-water-bills-tracker/Texas lawmakers are expected to debate dozens of bills to help save the state's water supply during the 2025 legislative session.Cotton fields near the High Plains town of Ralls, about 30 miles east of Lubbock, on Wednesday, June 22, 2022. Like much of Texas, the High Plains and Panhandle are facing drought conditions and extraordinary heat.Trace Thomas for The Texas Tribunehttps://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/13/texas-water-fund-new-supply-infrastructure/The state House and Senate have similar proposals to solve the state's water crisis, but there are stark differences on how to invest billions of dollars to resolve.By Alejandra Martinez and Jayme Lozano CarverThu, 13 Mar 2025 17:29:24 -0500https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/13/texas-water-fund-new-supply-infrastructure/Texas lawmakers are expected to settle differences between four pieces of legislation meant to save the state's water supply.A water tower in Starr County near the Falcon Dam on Aug. 18, 2022.Michael Gonzalez for The Texas Tribunehttps://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/13/texas-water-language-glossary/Water is complex. So are the terms used to describe it. Get to know the language as Texas debates how to save its water supply.By Jayme Lozano Carver and Alejandra MartinezThu, 13 Mar 2025 13:01:24 -0500https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/13/texas-water-language-glossary/A clarifier at the Bustamante Waste Water Treatment Plant expansion in El Paso, Texas on March 5, 2025.The secondary clarifier at the Bustamante Waste Water Treatment Plant expansion in El Paso on March 5, 2025.Justin Hamel for The Texas Tribunehttps://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/13/texas-water-explained-supply-demand/The state’s water supply faces numerous threats. And by one estimate, the state’s municipal supply will not meet demand by 2030 if there’s a severe drought and no water solutions are implemented.By Alejandra Martinez and Jayme Lozano Carver, Graphics by Carla Astudillo and Yuriko SchumacherThu, 13 Mar 2025 13:01:12 -0500https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/13/texas-water-explained-supply-demand/Water gushes into a homeowner's reservoir during a water delivery in 2024 in Terlingua. Most Texans rely on water from utilities. In some remote parts of the state, like Terlingua, residents have water delivered. The state's water supply is under duress from a number of threats including overuse and outdated infrastructure.Water gushes from Rick Bradbury’s truck to Shannon Montague’s reservoir as the Bradbury’s make a delivery Saturday, March 16, 2024 in Terlingua.Eli Hartman/The Texas Tribunehttps://www.texastribune.org/2025/02/28/texas-wildfire-legislation/Among the proposals is a bill that would force more inspections of power lines, which a committee concluded ignited a blaze that burned more than 1 million acres last year.By Jayme Lozano CarverFri, 28 Feb 2025 05:00:00 -0600https://www.texastribune.org/2025/02/28/texas-wildfire-legislation/A plane drops retardant on a 2024 Panhandle wildfire in Sanford.A plane prepares drops retardant on the Roughneck fire Sunday, March. 3, 2024, in Sanford, Texas.Justin Rex for The Texas Tribunehttps://www.texastribune.org/2025/02/28/texas-measles-abbott-lawmakers-response/Declining vaccination rates, decreasing trust in government and a political unwillingness to endorse vaccines is shaping Texas’ measles response.By Eleanor Klibanoff, Pooja Salhotra, Terri Langford and Jayme Lozano CarverFri, 28 Feb 2025 05:00:00 -0600https://www.texastribune.org/2025/02/28/texas-measles-abbott-lawmakers-response/Covenant Children's Hospital, pictured on Feb. 26, 2025, in Lubbock, has added a patient screening check before patients go to the children's emergency entrance.Covenant Children's Hospital in Lubbock on Feb. 26, 2025. Covenant has added a patient screening check before entering the children's emergency entrance.Trace Thomas for The Texas Tribunehttps://www.texastribune.org/2025/02/27/smokehouse-creek-fire-anniversary-texas-panhandle/The Panhandle town of Canadian is determined to move beyond the deadly fire. And yet, they are reminded almost daily another catastrophe is possible.By Jayme Lozano CarverThu, 27 Feb 2025 11:00:00 -0600https://www.texastribune.org/2025/02/27/smokehouse-creek-fire-anniversary-texas-panhandle/Remelle Farrar stands over the rubble at the Lake Marvin Lodge near the Panhandle town of Canadian on Feb. 7, 2025. The lodge was burned down in the 2024 Smokehouse Creek Fire.Remelle Farrar stands over the rubble of Lake Marvin's Lodge which was burned down in the 2024 Smokehouse Creek Fire in Canadian, Texas, Feb. 7, 2025.Jacob Lujan for The Texas Tribunehttps://www.texastribune.org/2025/02/26/texas-measles-death/More than 120 people across nine counties have been infected during the largest Texas outbreak in 30 years.By Jayme Lozano Carver, Pooja Salhotra and Terri LangfordWed, 26 Feb 2025 09:28:05 -0600https://www.texastribune.org/2025/02/26/texas-measles-death/https://www.texastribune.org/2025/02/19/texas-broadband-low-cost-ted-cruz/Texas is getting more than $3 billion from the federal government to help expand internet access.By Jayme Lozano CarverWed, 19 Feb 2025 05:00:00 -0600https://www.texastribune.org/2025/02/19/texas-broadband-low-cost-ted-cruz/Texas lawmakers have focused on developing the state’s broadband availability in recent years, as an estimated seven million residents don’t have internet access.Wired components that help city facilities connect to the internet at Big Lake, on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024.Mitch Borden for The Texas Tribunehttps://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/31/texas-bird-flu/Across the country, dairy producers have dumped milk and infected chickens have been killed, including millions of egg-laying hens, causing egg prices to skyrocket.By Jayme Lozano CarverFri, 31 Jan 2025 05:00:00 -0600https://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/31/texas-bird-flu/The bird flu is evolving as it transmits between birds and livestock, worrying farmers and researchers in Texas.Cattle are brought across the U.S.- Mexico border at a livestock import/export facility in Santa Teresa, New Mexico on January 22, 2021.Justin Hamel for The Texas Tribunehttps://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/30/texas-measles-vaccinations-schools/Two of the four cases are in Lubbock, which hasn’t seen a case in more than 20 years. Meanwhile, measles vaccination rates in Texas have fallen over the last four years.By Stephen Simpson, Dan Keemahill and Jayme Lozano CarverThu, 30 Jan 2025 14:25:46 -0600https://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/30/texas-measles-vaccinations-schools/https://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/28/texas-trump-federal-spending-freeze/Texas cities, counties, higher education institutions and nonprofits clambered Tuesday to gauge the potential fallout from the suspension, later blocked temporarily by a federal judge.By Jayme Lozano Carver, Jessica Priest, Joshua Fechter, Matthew Choi and Terri LangfordTue, 28 Jan 2025 20:35:02 -0600https://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/28/texas-trump-federal-spending-freeze/https://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/28/lubbock-texas-dustin-burrows-speaker/Meanwhile in the Panhandle, Republicans were less excited that Burrows won the speaker contest thanks largely to Democrats.By Jayme Lozano CarverTue, 28 Jan 2025 05:00:00 -0600https://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/28/lubbock-texas-dustin-burrows-speaker/House Speaker Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, addresses the chamber after being sworn in on the first day of the 89th Texas Legislative Session at the Capitol in Austin on Jan. 14.State Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, addresses the House after being sworn in as House speaker, on the first day of the 89th Texas Legislative Session at the capitol in Austin on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025.Eddie Gaspar/The Texas Tribunehttps://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/16/texas-water-legislation-charles-perry-supply-infrastructure/Texas’ population is booming and there is not enough water for everyone. State Sen. Charles Perry hopes to fix that.By Jayme Lozano Carver and Alejandra MartinezThu, 16 Jan 2025 13:00:00 -0600https://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/16/texas-water-legislation-charles-perry-supply-infrastructure/State Sen. Charles Perry, R-Lubbock, on the Senate floor on May 15, 2019. Perry hopes the Legislature this year will create a dedicated fund for water issues.State Sen. Charles Perry, R-Lubbock, on the Senate floor on May 15, 2019.Juan Figueroa/The Texas Tribunehttps://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/10/charles-perry-water-texas-priorities/The Lubbock Republican has been working for years to develop a new statewide approach to managing water and hopes voters will devote $1 billion a year to the problem.By Jayme Lozano CarverFri, 10 Jan 2025 12:54:47 -0600https://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/10/charles-perry-water-texas-priorities/https://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/09/texas-farm-bill-2025-extension/The historical bipartisan legislation includes a bevy of policies from crop insurance to food stamps.By Jayme Lozano CarverThu, 09 Jan 2025 11:00:00 -0600https://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/09/texas-farm-bill-2025-extension/A cotton field near Lubbock in 2022 was hit by drought conditions. Texas farmers have been waiting for Congress to update the national agriculture laws to help with crop insurance and other issues.Cotton fields near the High Plains town of Ralls, about 30 miles east of Lubbock, on Wednesday, June 22, 2022. Like much of Texas, the High Plains and Panhandle are facing drought conditions and extraordinary heat.Trace Thomas for The Texas Tribunehttps://www.texastribune.org/2024/12/30/wesley-hunt-ronny-jackson-investigation/The ethics committee said existing law and guidance from the Federal Election Commission is “often ambiguous” and provides gray areas of spending.By Jayme Lozano CarverMon, 30 Dec 2024 16:12:43 -0600https://www.texastribune.org/2024/12/30/wesley-hunt-ronny-jackson-investigation/