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In February, the winter storm hit North Texas so hard that snow covered the ground and the power in our house went out. Our family gathered in the living room, toasting hot dogs in the fireplace and regretting the loss of our gas stove.

What were supposed to be rotating power outages lasting less than an hour have turned seemingly endless across Collin County and statewide as unprecedented winter weather overwhelms the state’s power grid.

Curtis Harden was on the phone with his longtime friend when medical staff entered his hospital room. It was time to hook him up to a ventilator. COVID-19 had made its way home. It was early January.

Nationally more than four million children and teens have a diagnosed behavior problem. Another four million suffer with anxiety, according to the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. And their number is increasing.

On Thursday, Feb. 4, Collin County’s partnership with Curative Medical Associates to distribute COVID-19 vaccines to those on the county’s waitlist went horribly wrong.

Open a beekeeper’s beehive, and the bees will talk. Look closely (through your protective gear, of course), and you will see bees conducting a waggle dance, tails in the air, using their pheromones to express their concerns about the hive intruder.

Lisa Wong, director of technology, STEM teacher and mentor at Trinity Christian Academy in Addison, had no idea she and her husband’s trip to London to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary would help her prepare TCA for the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a recent Q&A for Time magazine, former First Lady Michelle Obama and Amanda Gorman—the young, Black poet who dazzled the nation when she read her poem “The Hill We Climb” during President Joe Biden’s inauguration—talked about a current renaiss

Like all Americans, Texans waited almost a year for the COVID-19 vaccine to come out to start the process of ending the pandemic.

Northern Collin County is a mixture of country roads, farmland, and new, half-built pre-planned communities. But change is coming. The Texas Demographic Center predicts that the population will pass 3.8 million by 2050.