Baylor News
Most of the green fences and construction barriers along Bagby and Third Street will remain up for the rest of this semester and through the summer until East Village, Baylor’s newest residential community, is finished.
For the first time, Baylor’s Acoustic Café will incorporate a new theme into its traditional showcase of students’ art and music tonight with “Bro Night at Acoustic Café” – featuring only male performers. The event will take place from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m in the Bill Daniel Student Center Den.
Tonight at 8 p.m., KWBU-FM will broadcast the last pre-recorded public forum on the potential school closings in the Waco Independent School District. Forums were held Jan. 5-12 to garner community feedback on the potential closures, which are because of an anticipated $3.4 million loss in state revenue. The school district is looking to combat the budget shortfall and save money by closing down schools that are under-capacity, according to wacoisd.org.
A man last known to be in Moody, a town about 28 miles southwest of Waco, was recently added to the Texas Department of Public Safety’s 10 Most Wanted Sex Offenders list.
Waco News
Covid-19
“Since July 1st, Baylor’s campus has had nine positives out of 48 tests,” Stern said. “And in the last month alone, we have had seven positives out of 29 tests, which is almost a 25% positivity rate.”
State News
Tensions continued to grow over the summer between political adversaries as Texas state Sen. James Talarico called on Attorney General Ken Paxton to release internal records related to a controversial child sexual abuse case involving former Waco attorney and Baylor Law graduate Adam Hoffman.
