By Maddy Vidales Residents sparked a petition in August about Lubbock’s current marijuana laws. Freedom Act Lubbock, initiated by Lubbock Compact, seeks to pass a petition to decriminalize the personal use of marijuana in Lubbock. “The heart of the ordinance is just to keep people out of jail,” Lubbock Compact Communications Chair Adam Hernandez said. […]
Tech Professors Talk Monarch Butterfly Conservation
April 14, 2015 by
Since August 2014, a petition has been circulating to include monarch butterflies on the endangered species list. Scott Starr, a graduate student in biology, said one of the conservation concerns with monarch butterflies is the wintering grounds in the mountains of Mexico. Monarchs migrate across the United States to Mexico and southern California each year. “Unfortunately […]