groundwater

Apr 161 min read

Join LIV with Sarah Stogner on Twitter Spaces Tonight, 7 pm!

Join us with Sarah Stogner on Twitter Spaces tonight for some fun and sass with LIV co-founder, Linda Curtis. Join us here. Sarah is a...

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LIV

Feb 192 min read

We're Back! And so is David Simpson.

At least some of you noticed that we've been off since November 2023! Our chief bottle-washer, Linda Curtis, is writing about it. So keep...

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How the Texas GOP lit its hair -- and every Texan's local control -- on fire: Gov signs HB 2127!

LIV

Jun 8, 20235 min read

How the Texas GOP lit its hair -- and every Texan's local control -- on fire: Gov signs HB 2127!

<== Click on Rep. Rose's picture to watch a 5-minute excerpt of the hour presentation to LIV on June 6th by Adrian Shelley, environmental...

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LIV

May 12, 20234 min read

Water Update from SAWDF

From one of the wonderful Texas water defenders, SAWDF Update 5/9/2023 Legislative News Favorable legislation awaiting a public hearing...

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With SB 471, TCEQ is useless as teats on a boar hog

LIV

May 8, 20233 min read

With SB 471, TCEQ is useless as teats on a boar hog

"The bill enumerates the many different ways the TCEQ is not required to investigate a complaint, stripping away yet another public right...

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Lege Water Hearing Tomorrow, LCRA Court Hearing on Wed

LIV

Apr 24, 20231 min read

Lege Water Hearing Tomorrow, LCRA Court Hearing on Wed

Thankfully, Rep. Gerdes introduced HB4445 to address massive water leakage throughout the state. Click on Nancy McKee's picture for a...

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This MOST important water bill could die next week without a hearing.

LIV

Apr 20, 20231 min read

This MOST important water bill could die next week without a hearing.

The Elephant in the Room! Let's help Rep. Gerdes get a hearing on HB 4445, arguably the most important water bill in this session! We...

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LIV

Apr 17, 20233 min read

Alert from SAWDF

SAWDF Update • 4/13/2023 Favorable Bills making progress House Natural Resources Committee [HNRC] SB 1080 – Kolkhorst Relating to a...

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Bastrop Biologist Challenges Elon at Botched TCEQ Meeting last night. Act on HB1505 now!

LIV

Mar 22, 20232 min read

Bastrop Biologist Challenges Elon at Botched TCEQ Meeting last night. Act on HB1505 now!

We can send a man to the moon, but we can't figure out what to do with our wastewater on god's green earth. Sean Hensley, a biologist who...

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Austin's Aquifer Storage: Who's Got the Power?

LIV

Feb 22, 20235 min read

Austin's Aquifer Storage: Who's Got the Power?

LIV-Indy News Exclusive: The City of Austin Could Use Eminent Domain to Force Risky Aquifer Storage in Bastrop and Lee counties "The...

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First Local Foods Lobby Day • Lost Pines Meets Wed • Giving Watson Slack

LIV

Feb 12, 20232 min read

First Local Foods Lobby Day • Lost Pines Meets Wed • Giving Watson Slack

This brief LIV-Indy News boost is to encourage you go to the Capitol tomorrow, Monday, February 13th, to support our local food advocates...

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Nattering Nabobs of Negativism Unite! LIV News, Jan. 27, 2023

LIV

Jan 27, 20232 min read

Nattering Nabobs of Negativism Unite! LIV News, Jan. 27, 2023

Some of you young pups did not have the pleasure of witnessing former Vice President Spiro Agnew in action. Agnew was one of only two...

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LIV

Jan 27, 20234 min read

Sandow Lakes Hearing Goes to SOAH

Many thanks for permission to reprint this article from the Burleson County Tribune. LIV encourages our readers to subscribe to your...

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Reprint

Jan 26, 20236 min read

New President Named to Lost Pines

Public fails to sway board to keep Sheril Smith As published in the Giddings Times & News January 26, 2023, Vol. 133, No. 37 During an...

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Political Drunks on Notice: Indys Got Your Number!

LIV

Apr 26, 20221 min read

Political Drunks on Notice: Indys Got Your Number!

"I came to Driftwood from California last year expecting some peace. I can't believe what is happening to us." A petition signer at...

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What's Rick Perry up to in HD-17, home of the water wars? Oops!

Linda Curtis

Jan 30, 20222 min read

What's Rick Perry up to in HD-17, home of the water wars? Oops!

Independents call former Governor Rick Perry "Governor 39%". That was Perry's reelection percentage in 2006 when two independents --...

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LIV

Aug 24, 20212 min read

No one is talking about it.

The following article is reprinted from LIV’s Linda Curtis submission to the Bastrop Democrats newsletter. We encourage Bastrop...

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Texas Tribune Covers Vista Ridge Pipeline Mess

LIV

Aug 5, 20211 min read

Texas Tribune Covers Vista Ridge Pipeline Mess

Finally, the gods of Texas media are back on this never-ending story of the state of Texas’ failure to properly manage groundwater. Of...

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Imperial Governance and Constitutional Wreckage • LIV News, July 29, 2021

LIV

Jul 29, 20215 min read

Imperial Governance and Constitutional Wreckage • LIV News, July 29, 2021

Are imperial governance and the related constitutional wreckage taking Texans down a dangerous path to a constitutional crisis? These...

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LIV

Jul 22, 20213 min read

LIV News, July 22, 2021

The elephant in the Texas voting booth that neither party wants to talk about is the suppression of a plurality of Texas voters. ...

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