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In Texas, where do the poor and uninsured go when they need medical care? They are likely to go without until it’s too late and then end up in an E.R. at a safety-net hospital.The doctors are confronted with people with serious illnesses as a result of not being able to have access to basic preventive care. They have cancers that have spread, diabetes that is unchecked and infections that are untreated. What are the people's stories? What needs to change to help them?

Major League Baseball playoffs are beginning, and the Houston Astros are in the running for the whole box of Cracker Jacks. But it wasn’t that long ago that the spacemen were caught cheating by stealing signs. There may not be crying in baseball, but there is cheating. Has America’s game become too tolerant of the low ball out?

Since 1982, Texas has executed 583 people, and one of them was Karla Faye Tucker. The pickaxe killer had a death row conversion and found the support of the biggest names in televangelism. Tucker’s story raises questions about the death penalty in Texas and the hypocrisy of the so-called pro-life State.

Dr. Monica Verduzco-Gutierrez, professor and chair of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, has been running two long COVID clinics since early in the pandemic, and she says every case is different.

In 2020 there was a presidential election, a pandemic and protests for racial justice. This affected every corner of America. But what about in the small towns and cities that are often overlooked by national news? How do big stories change when they are told by local journalists? What is lost as this kind of coverage disappears?