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Jobless claims came in at 3.8 million on Thursday, April 30, bringing the total, for the past seven weeks, to 30 million. Experts estimated there would be 3.5 million new claims, however there were over 300K more new claims bringing it to 3.8 million. This week's claims were 603,000 less than last week’s, and is the lowest since the week ending March 21.
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The week of May 4-8 will again be recognized as “Rainwater Harvesting Awareness” week as proclaimed by Terry County Judge, Butch Wagner, in 2017.
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‘‘I am a second-generation ginner who grew up in a gin office and literally took my first steps there,” says Dan Jackson, manager for Meadow Farmers Co-op Gin in Meadow, Texas. “My dad, Max Jackson, ran a small gin east of Lubbock — McClung Co-op — and my mom, Mary Jane, was the bookkeeper. We eventually moved west of Slaton where I attended public school at Lubbock-Cooper.
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Is that a bird? Is that a wind turbine blade? Is that the space shuttle? No! It's a dismantled decommissioned B-1 Bomber. Traffic was backed up about half a mile following the B-1 coming through Brownfield Wednesday morning while heading to Lubbock.
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Texas Tech University has announced that it will cut almost $7 million from the athletic budget due to the COVID-19 virus. Texas Tech like the rest of the nation has had to halt all sports competitions because federal, state and local governments have put in place strict guidelines about people being in places together, especially large groups to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
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In response to COVID-19, companies are adapting their resources to provide essentials like personal protective equipment or offering new or free services to ease the strain on the transition to a new normal.
Read moreMonday: Chicken & dumplings, peas & pearl onions, red bliss potatoes, dessert
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Type 2 Diabetes is a disease that happens when someone’s blood glucose is too high because their body doesn’t make enough insulin or it doesn’t work well to get the blood glucose into the cells where it can be used for energy. Managing blood glucose can be achieved through healthy eating and physical exercise and taking prescribed medications as directed by one’s physician. 30 million Americans have diabetes and over 90% have Type 2 Diabetes.
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