A Montanan turned Houstonian’s first summer in Texas isn’t going all that well.
Heat
A Manor man who left his puppy in the car in a Walmart parking lot is facing Class A misdemeanor charges.
When I was a teenager growing up in Wichita Falls, which is regularly hailed as one of the hottest cities in the state (and sometimes the country), I spent my summers smelling like roadkill. The moment I stepped outside my house, sweat began sliding like syrup down my back.
Extreme heat has killed nearly twenty people housed in correctional facilities. Now, inmates and guards have banded together to fight for improved conditions.
Gawker got wind that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Connally Unit recently was shut down due to "chronic staff staffing shortages and water outages."
Last summer, four prisoners died from heat-related causes in Texas's sweltering prisons.
As the state gets hotter, one former Midland resident thinks air conditioning should be required by the city building code.
