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Travis Bubenik
All Things Considered Host & Big Bend ReporterTravis has waltzed across Texas throughout his career in journalism, covering everything from pipeline protests in the Big Bend and oilfield flaring in the Permian Basin to Gulf Coast hurricanes and courtroom battles all over the state.
A Houston native and University of Texas alum, he got his start in public radio as an intern at Marfa Public Radio, where he later served as the station’s first full-time Morning Edition host and reporter.
Travis’ reporting on the Texas energy industry and its environmental footprint has frequently appeared on NPR and public radio’s Marketplace. During his time at Courthouse News, a national outlet focused on the courts and litigation, he closely followed legal battles prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic and the pandemic’s toll on communities across West Texas.
His dog Valentine is indeed named after the town.
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The Interior Department on Wednesday established the historic schoolhouse in Marfa, Texas as the nation’s newest national park unit. The site will explore the often undertold history of Mexican American school segregation across the Southwest.
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El Departamento de Interior designó el miércoles la histórica escuela de Marfa, Texas, como nuevo parque nacional. El sitio explorará la historia, a menudo poco contada, de la segregación en las escuelas mexicano-estadounidenses del suroeste.
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The settlement comes after environmental groups sued the agency to force action on a plan to clean up haze pollution in Texas and multiple other states.
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County officials on Wednesday appointed a handful of community representatives to a recently formed utility board that will explore solutions for water systems in some of the Big Bend region’s smallest towns.
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Sergio Mencha Pizarro, who has gone by the name “El Menchaca,” pleaded guilty on June 28 to a federal drug trafficking charge that carries a mandatory life sentence.
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Sergio Menchaca Pizarro, a quien se lo conoce con el nombre de “El Menchaca” se declaró culpable el 28 de junio de un cargo federal de tráfico de drogas que conlleva una sentencia obligatoria de cadena perpetua.
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David Matthew Neet, an Alpine volunteer firefighter, was arrested Friday and charged with arson after authorities say he purposefully started a string of recent roadside brush fires in the region.
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A spokesperson for the Big Bend Regional Medical Center said Flores had retired “to focus on his family.”
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Ernesto Villarreal, former business manager for the tiny West Texas school district, is accused of using district credit cards for his own purchases and issuing himself fraudulent payments.