From left, Texas Tribune Panhandle reporter Jayme Lozano Carver moderated a panel on “Fire, Floods and Rebuilding” featuring Andy Holloway, Hemphill County Extension Agent, James Henderson, Texas Panhandle rancher, Sydney Brown Murphy, Polk County Judge, and Thomas Tunstall, research director, Institute of Economic Development at the University of Texas at San Antonio. — Standard-Radio Post/Ken Esten Cooke
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Rural Texas faces challenges
Rural Texas officials, civic leaders and farmers spent two days discussing the challenges — and opportunities — the state’s more far-flung regions and communities face. From access to broadband internet and water supply to health care, people from every corner of Texas highlighted the economic and legislative needs the state’s rural residents have.
