Baylor News
“We tied everything together… by talking about how we really need to focus on our strengths, how we can take the things that bring us the most joy and… let that flow into our classrooms and what we do in the classrooms,” Clark-Goff said.
“I’m a firm believer, and I think many are, of [having] a good process and then [trusting] the process, and I think we have a really good process here,” Villegas said. “So I think in trusting the process, the good process that we have, I think, what will emerge are the things that people genuinely care about.”
With the difficulties of trying to find internships and enter the workforce, Joe Kickasola, film and digital media department professor and director of the Baylor in New York program, wanted to give students a once-in-a-lifetime chance to kickstart their careers.
“I think that Baylor bringing Primera to lead a chapel service is another sign of Baylor bringing awareness and trying to create an agenda for what it means for a university in Texas to have such a small percentage of Latino and Latina faculty,” Cardoza-Orlandi said. “I think that Baylor has become aware that should not be the case.”
Waco News
The Greater Waco Chamber of Commerce has received the Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star this year after earning a grade of 98 in energy performance, according to a statement released by the chamber.
StoryCorps, a nonprofit organization dedicated to recording and preserving oral history, is visiting Waco this holiday season.
By Carman GalvanStaff Writer Communities In Schools of the Heart of Texas in Waco and…
State News
Texas voters turned out in historic numbers Tuesday, delivering victories for State Rep. James Talarico and forcing a runoff between Attorney General Ken Paxton and incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in the state’s U.S. Senate contest that claimed national attention. The total early-voting turnout of more than 2.5 million marks the highest ever for a midterm primary election. The results also kicked off the 2026 midterm cycle.
INTERNATIONAL
The Iran war is now in its 46th day. Iran responded by restricting access to Hormuz, which carries about a fifth of the world’s seaborne oil, and moving to toll vessels transiting the strait. Waco drivers are already feeling it. The local average hit $3.38 a gallon last week, up 21 cents in seven days and 75 cents year-over-year, according to AAA data.
Gas prices in Texas have surged more than 70 cents per gallon since the U.S. went to war with Iran three weeks ago. The near-total shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz has driven oil prices up more than 40%, pushing the national average to its highest point since 2023 and sending diesel past $5 for the first time in three years.
The largest U.S. military operation in the Middle East in decades unfolded as American and Israeli forces struck Iran Saturday, killing its supreme leader and triggering retaliatory strikes from the Gulf to Israel. The White House said the campaign is aimed at dismantling Iran’s military and toppling its government.
Dr. Joshua Alley, assistant professor of political science, said part of the Trump administration’s interest in Greenland has to do with America’s national security strategy.
