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- ArticleEast Texas
No Heat Alert Is Active—but Longview and Marshall Face a 102–105°F Heat Index This Weekend
Longview and Marshall face heat-index values of 102–105°F this weekend despite no active heat alert. See the verified forecast, risks and practical steps.
- ArticleEast Texas
East Texas Heat Advisory Covers Longview and Marshall Through 8 P.M.: What to Do Now
A July 23 heat advisory covers Longview, Marshall, Gregg and Harrison counties through 8 p.m. See official risks, symptoms and local cooling options.
- ArticleFaith & Today
Hagar at the Well: What East Texas Heat Requires Us to Notice
Genesis 21 shows God seeing Hagar and Ishmael in the wilderness. Here is how that story can guide practical neighbor care during East Texas heat.
- ArticleEast Texas News
Extreme Heat Warning Covers Longview and Marshall as Bertha Moves West
Gregg and Harrison counties are under an Extreme Heat Warning through 8 p.m. July 22. See the Longview forecast, Bertha outlook, risks, and safety steps.
- ArticleTexas & Community
Should Texas Require Paid Heat Rest Breaks for Outdoor Workers?
Texas urges water, shade, and rest for workers in dangerous heat. Should the state require paid heat breaks, or leave each worksite to set its own plan?
- ArticleFaith & Today
Elijah, the Widow and the Last Meal: What East Texas Heat Requires of Neighbors
The widow of Zarephath shared during drought. Here is what 1 Kings 17 teaches—and what East Texans can do during today’s heat advisory.
- ArticleRyan's Take
Should Texas Require Air Conditioning on Every School Bus?
Texas regulates school bus safety but does not require air conditioning on every bus. Here are the strongest cases for a mandate and local control.
- ArticleEast Texas
Marshall’s Hazard Mitigation Plan Is Open for Comment: 19 Projects—and Draft Gaps to Fix by July 31
Marshall’s draft hazard plan proposes 19 resilience projects. See the priorities, incomplete data, public-comment deadline and how residents can respond.
- ArticleRyan's Take
Should Texas Require Temperature-Safe Backup Power at Every Long-Term-Care Facility?
Texas requires emergency planning, but backup power may not maintain safe indoor temperatures. Should every long-term-care facility be required to do so?
- ArticleReflection
Before the heat wakes up
Recovery is not a door you walk through. It is a repetition. On flat water, early September, and the slow work of teaching your body that stillness is safe.
- ArticleNews
Longview’s Stamper Pool Is Open This Sunday for $3 or Less
Longview’s Stamper Park Family Aquatic Center is open weekends through September 27. See Sunday hours, admission, features, and what to verify first.
- ArticleReflection
One skillet, one Sunday
Every kid should leave home with one dish that is theirs. The cast iron chicken and potatoes recipe written out step by step, plus how to teach it by age.
- ArticleReflection
Some Days the Win Is the Thing I Did Not Send
Ryan Nichols on the one rule he uses now: if he writes it in heat, it sits until morning. On PTSD, restraint, and why Genesis 50:20 is something you find out later.
- ArticleRebuild
Writing for a Reader Who Cannot Read Yet
My son will read this archive all at once, years from now, as a grown man. That reader changed what I publish. One filter, and what it took out of my writing.
- ArticleReflection
Nothing Was Biting And I Stayed Anyway
Three and a half hours on the water and nothing bit. Why a man who cannot sit still with nothing happening is a man anybody can steer. Ryan Nichols.
- ArticleReflection
I Used to Rehearse Before Church
For years I rehearsed my answers on the drive to church. A few weeks ago I noticed the drive had gone quiet, and nothing was wrong.
- ArticleEast Texas
Longview Teens Can Use a Free Esports Room Today
Longview teens ages 13 through 17 can use Broughton Recreation Center's esports room free this afternoon. Membership is not required. Check details.
- ArticleJanuary 6
Non-Grievable: Seven Grievances To See My Own Discovery
Seven times in four months I filed a grievance to see the evidence in my own case. Four got no response. One came back NON-GRIEVABLE. Here is the log, row by row.
- ArticleRyan Outdoors
First Light on Lake of the Pines
A kayak, a rod, and the one hour where the nervous system stands down. Fishing as the thing that makes recovery possible, from a veteran who still keeps the appointment.
- ArticleEast Texas News
Longview's National Night Out Starts Tonight
Longview's free National Night Out kickoff runs tonight from 6 to 8 at Maude Cobb. See what is planned and how to register an October block party.
- ArticleRyan's Take
Should Texas Set Its Own Minimum Wage Above $7.25?
Texas still uses the $7.25 federal minimum wage. Here are the strongest arguments for a higher state floor and for letting local labor markets set pay.
- ArticleRyan's Take
Should Texas Ban Home Insurers From Rejecting a House Because of Roof Age Alone?
Texas is moving against roof-age-only insurance decisions. Here are the strongest arguments for homeowner protection and accurate risk-based underwriting.
- ArticleMotivation & Resilience
The Plan Can Break Without You Being Broken
A broken plan is not proof that you are broken. Use this 12-minute reset to name what changed, protect what matters, and choose your next move today.
- ArticleBusiness & Technology
The Recall That Changed Every Medicine Cabinet
The 1982 poisonings led to recalls, federal packaging rules, and visible safety seals. The lasting business lesson is how trust gets rebuilt under pressure.
- ArticleRyan's Take
Texas Just Found Out It Doesn't Have Enough Power for AI — And X Is Furious
A viral X post revealed Texas data centers are requesting 5x the grid's all-time power record. Here's why that number — and Abbott's pause — matter.
- ArticleRebuild
The Hardest Part of Fighting Shadows Is the Cut List
Everybody asks what goes in the book. Nobody asks what comes out. The rules that decide what gets cut from Fighting Shadows, and why the cut list is the book.
- ArticleReflection
Nothing Out On That Water Knows My Name
For years, sitting still was not rest. It was a cell. Fishing was the bridge from braced to steady, and why I am learning stillness before my son gets here.
- ArticleEast Texas
Longview Recycling Faces a July 30 Council Review: What Belongs in the Blue-Lid Cart Now
Longview City Council will review recycling July 30. See the current blue-cart rules, processing costs, open questions and how residents can respond.
- ArticleEvening News
Cyclospora Lettuce Recall Reaches Texas: What to Check as Outbreak Tops 1,900 Cases
FDA says recalled iceberg lettuce reached Texas while confirmed outbreak cases remain in nine other states. Check products, dates, symptoms and next steps.
- ArticleRyan Outdoors
Ryan Nichols and the Discipline of Reading the Sky
Ryan Nichols’ rescue history points to a practical rebuilding rhythm: prepare, observe and serve—safely, without treating outdoor activity as medical care.
- ArticleTexas News
New World Screwworm Is in Texas: What Livestock Owners, Hunters and Pet Travelers Need to Do Now
New World screwworm is confirmed in Texas. Learn the warning signs, reporting numbers, live maps and Mexico's August 3 pet-travel document rule.
- ArticleEast Texas Business
East Texas Business Spotlight: Robbie and Tracy Shoults of Bear Creek Smokehouse
Meet Bear Creek Smokehouse co-owners Robbie and Tracy Shoults and learn how the Marshall-area family business has grown since 1943.
- VideoCommunity
Confess Your Sins, One To Another..
> *"Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed."* — James 5:16 > *"For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad."* — Luke 8:1
- PhotoElections
My buddy's polling place moved and nobody told him. It's not a conspiracy — but here's why you'd better check yours before May 26.
My buddy Pete has voted at the same Katy library for five years. This week he went to confirm his spot for the **May 26 primary runoff** — and it wasn't his anymore. Pete and his girlfriend are registered Republicans in Katy. Same Harris Co
- ArticleThe Work
An East Texas Dental School Built Four Small Doors Before the Big One
Premier Dental Academy of Longview sells a $19, $29, $97 and $147 ladder between its free tools and enrollment. The funnel lesson any small business can use.
- ArticleOpinion
Should Texas Require In-Person Stores to Take Cash?
Federal law lets private businesses refuse cash unless state law says otherwise. Should Texas require staffed, in-person stores to accept paper money?
- ArticleReflection
Nothing I Caught Today Went in the Truck
I went fishing and kept nothing. Why a man who scores his own day needs one hour a week that produces no evidence at all, and why rest is a command and not a reward.
- ArticleThe Work
I Published the Number That Makes My Own Database Look Bad
8,615 of my 8,914 official records are past due for a source check, and I put that on the page. Why the gap belongs in public, and what you actually own.
- ArticleThe Work
The $197 Product That Tells You Not to Buy Software
I sell business systems, and my $197 follow-up product says you need no software. Leads are not lost because they were bad. They are lost to the silence after.
- ArticleBehind the scenes
Every Lost Lead Needs a Reason Code
A closed lead without a clear outcome teaches your business nothing. Build a small reason-code system that turns missed opportunities into repairs.
- ArticleBehind the scenes
A Missed Call Needs a Useful Text, Not an Apology
A missed-call text should reduce uncertainty and create a next step. Use this five-part response rule to recover the conversation without sounding automated.
- ArticleReflection
Keep One Small Promise Before You Make Another
When trust in yourself feels thin, stop making bigger plans. Use this 12-minute promise test to finish one honest commitment and rebuild momentum.
- ArticleMotivation & Resilience
God Can Meet You Before the Situation Changes
When the answer takes longer than you hoped, faith can still steady your next step. Use this 12-minute plan to find peace before circumstances change.
- ArticleMotivation & Resilience
A Bad Start Does Not Own the Rest of Your Day
A rough morning can be real without becoming a verdict. Use this 18-minute reset to stop the slide, choose one move, and reclaim the day before noon.
- ArticleRyan's Take
Should Texas Require Customer-Service Bots to Say They Are AI?
Texas requires some government AI disclosures. Should private customer-service bots also identify themselves before collecting details or offering help?
- ArticleReflection
When the Plan Died at 2 AM
Every storm I worked, the plan died in the first hour. Roads went under, radios failed, teams split. The ninety second reset that got us moving again.
- ArticleRebuild
The Plumber Who Tells You to Go Get Other Estimates
Streety Plumbing prints Master Plumber License M-38762 on its home page, then tells you to get multiple estimates. Here is the seven question hire check.
- ArticleBehind the scenes
The typhoon checklist
The Marines on Okinawa ran a numbered typhoon countdown starting 72 hours out. Here is that same system rewritten for your house, room by room, printable.
- ArticleReflection
How to talk to a veteran about hard days
Five things to say and five things to skip, from a Marine who needed both. Presence over advice, questions over assumptions. Screenshot the card and keep it.
- ArticleBehind the scenes
What leading Marines taught me about running a business
I led 25 to 35 Marines in Okinawa and never saw combat. Five habits carried into business, plus the seven step Monday brief template you can copy today.
In the case files
9 matches in the record for “heat”
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All 7Major Talley note 4/9/24 - heat complaint w/ Jackson, Grant, McKelton
Note documenting conversation with Major Talley about heat in front of Cpl McKelton, with Brian Jackson and James Gran…
IGP Complaint 7/8/22: A/C out for 3-4 days, headaches, dehydration
…hols 376795 C2B dated 7/8/22. Day 3-4 that AC has been out. Heat causing headaches, sleep loss, downright unbearable. Drinki…
IGP Complaint 7/7/22: A/C out 2-3 days, 80-81 deg, fan area only
…fan; cells 5-10+ deg hotter. Almost unbearable. Bricks let heat through, hot air blowing from vents. Informed officers, mai…