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Lana Straub

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Lana Straub of Stanton, TX is a freelance journalist living in the middle of West Texas, which at the moment is oil boom country. She focuses her efforts on energy related issues of the area. Living in the desert southwest, she also focuses on environmental issues, including water issues with particular interest in groundwater conservation and contamination. She is trained Paralegal with a bachelor's degree in political science, emphasis in legal assistant studies from Texas A&M University-Commerce. She has taken several distance education sources to hone her journalism skills. She is a member of several professional journalism organizations, including SEJ, IRE, SPJ, AIR, NASW, and SABEW. She has written for publications for the National Ground Water Association and WATR News. She is also a radio producer for KXWT, West Texas Public Radio.

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  1. Audio Tour of Martin County Convent, Stanton, TX

    An audio tour of the Martin County Covent located in Stanton, Texas. A historical look at the Carmelite Monks and Sisters who established the town in 1882 and how they lived at the monastary.

  2. Sibley Nature Festival

    News spot about Sibley Nature Festival held Saturday October 8, 2016. Learn more at http://sibleynaturecenter.org/events/sibley-nature-festival-1

  3. Ray Hays Audio

    Ray Hays Audio by Lana Straub

  4. Sara Peach - SEJ Member Spotlight January 2016

    Sara Peach and Campaign Hound The inaugural 2016 Media on the Move Spotlight is on Sara Peach. Sara has been a member of SEJ since 2008 and is part of a news team that won $150,000 in the Knight News Challenge. Her team won for Campaign Hound, a service that tracks political stump speeches and...

  5. Bill Funk - SEJ Member Spotlight February 2016

    SEJ’s Media on the Move Spotlight is on William H. “Bill” Funk for February 2016. Bill began his career in environmental journalism from an unlikely place — law school. After graduating from Vermont Law School with a Master's in Environmental Policy and a JD, Bill decided that instead of…

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  6. Cynthia Barnett - SEJ Member Spotlight March 2016

    The Member Spotlight Initiative features individual SEJ members and their work, including in some cases testimonials about the value of SEJ membership to their journalism career. SEJ is also interested in featuring media organizations with which the SEJ membership are affiliated, either through...

  7. Karen Schaefer - SEJ Member Spotlight April 2016

    The Member Spotlight Initiative features individual SEJ members and their work, including in some cases testimonials about the value of SEJ membership to their journalism career. SEJ is also interested in featuring media organizations with which the SEJ membership are affiliated, either through...

  8. Texas is Set to Amend it's Constitution...Again

    On Tuesday, November 3, Texans will go to the ballot box to vote on seven more amendments to the Texas Constitution, which is unlike any other state constitution. Currently there are more than 450 amendments and this Election Day, state legislators are asking you to vote on seven more.…

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  9. LanaStraub-TimeChangesHowWePlay

    This is my entry into the 24-hour radio race put on my KCRW. I spent the day with my son finding out how play has changed since I was a kid.

  10. Compressor Station Noise

    Compressor Station Noise by Lana Straub

  11. Mending the Gender Gap - Fronteras Broadcast

    This is a tape of the story as it aired on the Fronteras Desk, June 20-21, 2015

  12. Rural Telepsychiatry

    If you live in a small town in rural Texas, it might be hard to keep secrets. Recent studies show that the stigma associated with going to a doctor for mental health may be keeping potential patients at home. For West Texas Public Radio, Lana Straub reports.

  13. Mending the Gender Gap in the Oil & Gas Industry

    This track aired on The Texas Standard 06/18/15 and on the Fronteras Desk June 20-21, 2015

  14. Mending the Gender Gap

    Women leaders in the energy industry are working together to bridge the gender gap in the profession.

  15. National Study shows NO LINK between MMR Vaccine and Autism

    This week is Infant Immunization Week. It calls attention to a growing concern. Nationally, and here in West Texas, children are not being vaccinated due to a fear among some parents that the MMR vaccine leads to autism. MMR stands for measles, mumps, and rubella. A study released Tuesday…

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  16. Sarah Palin Spot 02 - 13 - 15

    Sarah Palin was spoke at the UTPB John Ben Shepperd Leadership Distinguished Lecture Series on February 12, 2015 at the Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center.

  17. End of the Road for the Tumbleweed?

    You’re driving on the interstate on a windy West Texas day and all of a sudden out of the corner of your eye, you see something barreling across the road. Before you can react, it hits your car. You’ve just met the tumbling tumbleweed. It’s an iconic image, and some believe tumbleweeds originated...

  18. Live interview with Guillermo Hernandez Martinez, Photographer about Project When In Texas

    Here is my full live interview with Guillermo Hernandez Martinez about his project When In Texas that is focusing on High School Football and what it means to local communities large and small. Portrait by Heinz Kluetmeier

  19. PHOTOGRAPHER CAPTURES PASSIONS AND TRADITIONS OF TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

    Link to original story http://kxwt.org/photographer-captures-passions-and-traditions-of-texas-high-school-football/ Photo by Guillermo Hernandez-Martinez. Photographer Guillermo Hernandez-Martinez has been traveling across the state capturing those passions at games in the big cities and small...

  20. My grandmother died from a heart attack-but she didn't have to-neither do you

    3 days before my 31st birthday my grandmother died of a heart attack. She was 76 and had COPD for most of her life. I should have been prepared for her heart attack, but I wasn't. Each year heart attacks and heart related illnesses claim the lives of more Texas women than any other disease. Most...

  21. MEET TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD MEMBER BECH BRUUN

    Now that Proposition 6 has passed, the Texas Water Development will become an integral part of deciding which priority projects get funding. Reporter Lana Straub caught up with Board Member Bech Bruun when he was in Odessa recently. In her interview Bruun discusses how the Texas Water Development...

  22. TEXAS STATE CONSTITUTION PROPOSITIONS: PROP 7 - Special Elections in Homerule Cities

    Here’s the eighth part of reporter Lana Straub’s series on the proposed Amendments to the Texas State Constitution. This part covers Proposition 7, which deals with special election rules in cities under 5,000 people.

  23. TEXAS STATE CONSTITUTION PROPOSITIONS: PROP 5 - Reverse Mortgage for Seniors

    Here’s the sixth part of reporter Lana Straub’s series on the proposed Amendments to the Texas State Constitution. This part covers Proposition 5, which deals with Texas seniors mortgaging abilities.

  24. TEXAS STATE CONSTITUTION PROPOSITIONS: PROP 4 - Property Tax Exemption for Disabled Veterans

    Here’s the fifth part of reporter Lana Straub’s series on the proposed Amendments to the Texas State Constitution. This part covers Proposition 4, which deals with a property tax exemption to partially disabled veterans or surviving spouses

  25. TEXAS STATE CONSTITUTION PROPOSITIONS: PROP 3

    Here’s the fourth part of reporter Lana Straub’s series on the proposed Amendments to the Texas State Constitution. This part covers Proposition 3, which deals with number of days aircraft parts can be held temporarily by a business in Texas as part of the “Freeport exemption”.

  26. TEXAS STATE CONSTITUTION PROPOSITIONS: VOTER ID LAWS

    Here’s the third part of reporter Lana Straub’s series on the proposed Amendments to the Texas State Constitution. This part covers new Voter ID laws, as explained by the League of Women Voters of Texas. Texas Secretary of State John Steen will be speaking about the Voter ID laws in Midland at...

  27. TEXAS STATE CONSTITUTION PROPOSITIONS: PROP 2 - Removal of State Medical Education Board

    Originally aired October 25, 2013 Here’s the second part of reporter Lana Straub’s series on the proposed Amendments to the Texas State Constitution. This part covers Proposition 2, which deals with the elimination of a defunct State Medical Education Board and a State Medical Education Fund

  28. TEXAS STATE CONSTITUTION PROPOSITIONS PROP 1 - Tax Exemptions for KIA US Armed Service Spouses

    Here’s the first part of reporter Lana Straub’s series on the proposed Amendments to the Texas State Constitution. This part covers Proposition 1, which deals with tax exemptions for spouses of members of the US Armed Services killed in action.

  29. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE TEXAS STATE CONSTITUTION PROPOSITIONS

    Originally Aired October 25, 2013 This is the introduction to the Texas State Constitution Series and explores how a bill becomes a law in Texas and why Texas has so many constitutional amendments

  30. State’s New Voter ID Laws Seeing First Big Test In Primaries

    Originally Aired March 4, 2014 Polling centers are open until 7 pm today for the state’s primary elections, and it’s also the first big test for the state’s new voter ID laws. Governor Rick Perry signed Senate Bill 14 into law back in 2011. Texas is one of nine states seeing the first major tests...

  31. As Healthcare Enrollment Deadline Looms, West Texans Debate Obamacare

    Originally Aired March 31, 2014. Today, Monday March 31st, is the deadline for open enrollment for coverage this year under the Affordable Care Act. Some have said that Texas has been slow to make the transition. Open enrollment under the Affordable Care Act, the ACA, ends at midnight tonight....

  32. Permian Basin Farmers Happy with Late Season Rain

    Thanks to Hurricane Odille, parts of the Permian Basin saw significant rains in September. Local farmers welcomed the rain, but hope for sunny skies through the rest of harvest season.

  33. LAKE J.B. THOMAS NEARLY 50% FULL AFTER RECENT RAINS

    Over the weekend, remnants of Hurricane Odille combined with a low pressure system to create a prolonged rain event in the Permian Basin. Heavy rains flooded much of the Basin, especially along the upper Colorado River in Borden County, near Gail. Water rushed across roads and refilled bone-dry...

  34. KEL SELIGER FACING CHALLENGER MIKE CANON IN DISTRICT 31 SENATE RACE

    State Senator Kel Seliger is running for re-election, facing challenger Mike Canon in the Republican primary on Tuesday, March 4th. Kel Seliger has been the incumbent State Senator for District 31 for 10 years. On Tuesday, he faces a challenge from former Midland mayor Mike Canon. For KXWT News,...

  35. Cigar - Box - Guitar - Makers

    Tall City Bluesfest marked its fourth year in Midland in late July. One of the reasons for its longevity are the workshops it offers. For KXWT News, Lana Straub visited with some young aficionados of the blues. Cigar Box guitars are what blues players refer to as “primitive instruments.” And...

  36. LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR RUNOFF CANDIDATES COME TO WEST TEXAS

    Incumbent David Dewhurst has been duking it out with challenger Dan Patrick in an effort to retain his title as Lieutenant Governor of Texas. They’ve traded punches in a series of televised debates and in campaign ads. Last week, they took their battle to the Midland, where they squared off in...

  37. TEXAS STATE CONSTITUTION PROPOSITIONS: PROP 8

    Here’s the ninth part of reporter Lana Straub’s series on the proposed Amendments to the Texas State Constitution. This part covers Proposition 8, which would add a hospital district in Hidalgo County.

  38. TEXAS STATE CONSTITUTION PROPOSITIONS: PROP 9

    Here’s the final part of reporter Lana Straub’s series on the proposed Amendments to the Texas State Constitution. This part covers Proposition 9, which would expand the types of sanctions the State Commission on Judicial Contact could assess against a judge or justice.

  39. West Texas Kids Get Excited About Robotics

    West Texas Kids Get Excited About Robotics by Lana Straub

  40. Governor Perry forms Ebola Task Force

    Many are looking to Texas to see how their public health system is responding to the patient in Dallas who is being treated for Ebola. This week Governor Rick Perry gave Executive Orders for the creation of a new Infectious Disease Task Force. For KXWT News, Lana Straub reports.

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Lana Straub of Stanton, TX is a freelance journalist living in the middle of West Texas, which at the moment is oil boom country. She focuses her efforts on energy related issues of the area. Living in the desert southwest, she also focuses on environmental issues, including water issues with particular interest in groundwater conservation and contamination. She is trained Paralegal with a bachelor's degree in political science, emphasis in legal assistant studies from Texas A&M University-Commerce. She has taken several distance education sources to hone her journalism skills. She is a member of several professional journalism organizations, including SEJ, IRE, SPJ, AIR, NASW, and SABEW. She has written for publications for the National Ground Water Association and WATR News. She is also a radio producer for KXWT, West Texas Public Radio.

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