Lubbock Officials Discuss City’s Future

By Shania Jackson In Jan. 2019, Citizens Tower became the base office for the City of Lubbock’s key officials including Mayor Dan Pope, his assistant Abby Dye and Deputy City Manager Bill Howerton. Howerton has been with the City of Lubbock for 20 years now but was recently named deputy city manager. “The biggest project […]

Helping the Homeless Be Heard

After long hours of preparation, the members of Hearing the Homeless sighed with relief when the art installation was finally ready for its debut. Hearing the Homeless, a local nonprofit, works toward ending the misconceptions of homelessness through positive human connection and authentic relationships. Kipp Bennett-Chew, associate director and photographer for Hearing the Homeless, said […]

The Truth Behind Homelessness

By: Steven Rodriguez Imagine waking up from eight hours of sleep on a soon-to-be lazy Sunday morning. The house temperature is set to 72 degrees, and you walk out of your room to watch the upcoming NFL games with your significant other making breakfast. Now imagine not having that. You wake up outside on the cold concrete during a freezing December day — having only an hour of sleep and nothing but a shopping cart […]

Delicious, Nutritious and Ambitious

According to the South Plains Homeless Consortium, more than 400 people in Lubbock were counted homeless last year. Cesar Hernandez, a junior mechanical engineering major at Texas Tech, and three of his friends decided they wanted to do something about it. It was about a year ago that Hernandez noticed the amount of people living on the […]

In Their Own Words: What It’s Like To Be Homeless

By Nicolas Lopez They live under bridges and overpasses or scatter to abandoned homes at night. Some feel lucky to have shelter in Tent City. Ostracized by society, they all desperately seek to be heard. In previous articles I have written about poverty, hunger and homelessness in Lubbock, I often felt that I didn’t do full […]