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Trump taps Texas Sen. Brian Birdwell for assistant secretary of defense

The U.S. Senate must confirm the appointment. The Granbury Republican previously announced he would not seek another Texas Senate term.

The Texas Tribune

How Trump’s love for crypto threatens US residents’ peace: ‘I just want quiet’

Cryptocurrency mining facilities can blanket towns with ‘constant’ noise. They’re likely to get louder under Trump

The Guardian - US

Power plant expansion tied to Bitcoin mining faces backlash in rural Hood County

Granbury residents say a noisy Bitcoin mine keeps them up at night. Now a plan to expand the power plant that fuels the mine is drawing opposition over pollution concerns.

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Residents of a Texan town say bitcoin mining threatens to crash its power grid

A 300-megawatt facility has altered the lives of several Granbury residents, who also complain about the noise it makes

Latin Times

Texas leaders worry that Bitcoin mines threaten to crash the state power grid

Granbury residents are raising alarms over noise from a local Bitcoin mine, while state lawmakers warn that the energy-hungry facilities risk “crashing” the electrical grid.

The Texas Tribune

GOP border bill expanded to stiffen penalty for human smuggling, create border-crossing crime

State Sen. Brian Birdwell, R-Granbury, tacks two of his stalled bills onto legislation that would create a border police unit and increase state spending in border communities.

The Texas Tribune

‘They were trying to erase us’: Inside a Texas town’s chilling effort to ban LGBTQ books

This Texas town tried to impose one of the most severe book bans in the country. LGBT+ students fought back. Richard Hall reports from Granbury, Texas.

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Texas superintendent removed LGBTQ books

The Education Department has opened what appears to be the first-of-its-kind investigation into the district

Salon

Feds open civil rights investigation into Texas school district after LGBTQ book removals

DALLAS — The U.S. Department of Education opened a civil rights investigation into Granbury ISD, a North Texas district where officials removed books with LGBTQ themes.

Tribune News Service

Texan Kellye SoRelle, lawyer for Oath Keepers, is charged in Jan. 6 insurrection

Federal prosecutors in part allege the Granbury attorney destroyed and hid potential evidence to obstruct the criminal investigation into the 2021 U.S. Capitol attack, indicting her on a charge of tampering with documents.

The Texas Tribune

Recipe for a reliable Texas grid: A gas plant plus 22,000 batteries and backup fuel

GRANBURY, Texas — This is what modern reliability looks like on the Texas grid.

Tribune News Service

Texas mom campaigns to ban library books

“I couldn’t stay quiet about that," her son said

Salon

A Granbury mom’s campaign to ban library books divided her town — and her family

Weston Brown thought he had fully come to terms with his mother’s anti-LGBTQ beliefs. Then he saw the video of her speaking at a school board meeting. “I couldn’t stay quiet about that.”

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