Michael and Melinda fell in love young. They married in 1973, divorced not long after. They didn't speak for more than 50 years. Then the Hill Country flood hit. I went to learn about a tragedy for @HoustonChron and, of course, came back with a love story (link in reply)

Breaking Austin news via @kut: kut.org/education/2026-06-15…

Austin ISD's 2025-26 budget deficit swelled from $19 million to $95 million, eating into the district's financial savings. statesman.com/news/education…

HOUSTON — Elephant joins Texas GOP convention, and pees right between the press area and delegates, after Gov. Greg Abbott’s speech.

Republicans trot out there party’s symbol at the state convention. As it passed the press section, the giant creature urinated on the floor.

More than 400 electric bicycles remain off Austin streets nearly three weeks after after a fire damaged the batteries and charging infrastructure behind @CapMetroATX’s bike rental program — and the agency says it doesn’t know when service will return. statesman.com/business/trans…

Forever perplexed that Madison Square Garden is round

A city employee secretly worked a full-time state job while collecting a city paycheck. Investigators found she never disclosed the outside employment and that her performance suffered as a result. #atx #austin My latest for @statesman statesman.com/news/local/art…

I guess I should have specified that I was looking for information on the mural

Southwest 375 from AUS to PHX returned safely to the airport shortly after takeoff this afternoon due to an engine issue. SWA Statement: "Southwest appreciates the professionalism of our Pilots and Flight Crew. We will accommodate our Customers to Phoenix on another aircraft."

BREAKING: Without warning, @UTAustin takes down its Cesar Chavez statue today. statesman.com/news/education…

The screwworm has shaken Texas agriculture previously. Those who lived through it in the 1950s say it was commonplace for ranchers to "scoop handfuls of worms from cattle" and other livestock. Herds decimated. Beef prices could soar, markets rattled. Buckle up, #TxLege

BREAKING: "As of a little while ago, we have confirmed the first official case of New World Screwworm in Texas," @USDA @SecRollins tells reporters. It was found in a 3-week-old calf in La Pryor, a small South Texas community.

Scott Pelley, the "60 Minutes" veteran who got his start at the Lubbock A-J, was fired by CBS this week after clashing with new leadership. by @MateoRosilesTX for @lubbockonline/@USATODAY lubbockonline.com/story/news…

Legal win for @MattMackowiak and Save Austin Now in parody of City of Austin's widely hated new logo. SAN sued in state court after City said they couldn't use it. Manager T.C. Broadnax removed it to federal court. Today federal magistrate said it should be tried in state court

A case of NWS may have been detected in South Texas. The sample is now at USDA's National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) in Ames, lowa for confirmatory testing. We will provide updates the moment results are available. We have already activated personnel on the ground and are working with local partners. What you can expect from us is transparency, candor, and most important — action. screwworm.gov

New statement from Scott Pelley:   There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.   The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.   “60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.   The waste is heartbreaking.   Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.   For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.   At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.   I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.   Scott Pelley

#BREAK: CBS NEWS has terminated Scott Pelley's contract.

Inbox: @SecJaneNelson will retire as @TXsecofstate on July 17, per a news release from her office. The announcement doesn't say why she's leaving or if the 74-year-old has future career plans. #txlege