Hit the Brakes
Texas is approaching a distressing milestone this month: 25 years during which not a day has gone by without at least one traffic fatality.
Since the streak began November 7, 2000, more than 88,000 people have died on Texas roads. The Texas Department of Transportation’s End the Streak campaign strives to change that.
The streak nearly ended one day in January 2024, when there was just one fatality—caused by a driver running a stop sign.
“More drivers are choosing to engage in more than one risky driving behavior,” says April Ramos of the National Safety Council. “This includes impaired driving, drowsy driving, aggressive driving, and seat belt misuse and nonuse.”
The Pedernales Electric Cooperative member is OK with the fact that her 17-year-old son is in no hurry to get his driver’s license. And when he does?
“My biggest advice to him, aside from following all the rules of the road, is to not be in a rush, avoid aggressive drivers and put your phone away.”
A mural created by a collective of artists depicts Dr. James Lee Dickey administering a vaccine during a typhoid outbreak in the early 1930s.
In Your Space, Inc | Courtesy The Williamson Museum
Hinterland Healing
National Rural Health Day, November 20 this year, didn’t exist when Dr. James Lee Dickey went about healing folks and saving lives in 1920s Williamson County.
Dickey was the only Black physician in the county, and he worked to expand facilities so African Americans could get proper health care. His focus included expectant mothers and a vigorous vaccination program to curb a typhoid fever epidemic.
