It’s lights out for ERCOT’s CEO Bill Magness. He was fired Wednesday for his mismanagement of Texas’ power grid during last month’s sub-zero freezing temperatures which left over 4 million Texas residents without power and therefore, unable to heat their homes. Magness has defended his decision to begin rolling blackouts to ease the strain on…… More
Citizens of Wichita Falls who participate in the Choose to Reuse program at the Wichita Falls Organics Facility will be able to pick up a free load of compost this Saturday. Get more information here.… More
The same pancake mix and sausage cooked at the University Kiwanis Club pancake festival is being served differently this year. The club’s annual pancake festival was cancelled in January because of the pandemic. “We didn’t know what we were going to do when we cancelled the event quite frankly. We just knew we had to…… More
Nearly one year into the coronavirus pandemic, help from the federal government for small businesses who are struggling continues to be in high demand. Luckily, starting Wednesday for two weeks, the Paycheck Protection Program will open applications for places that have 20 employees or less. More details about this new, temporary eligibility requirement and how…… More
The City of Wichita Falls Water Department is helping residents make sure they can keep their water services on. “We actually haven’t cut anybody off for nonpayment since right when this first started, which I think was around Feb. 11, so we’ve actually gone about two and half weeks,” said Azura Kerr, Systems Data Administrator…… More
Three-time Grammy Award-winning artist Future and Grammy-nominated record producer Metro Boomin’s second collaborative album, We Still Don’t Trust You, has debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart dated April 27. We Still Don’t Trust You earned 127,500 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the April 12-18 tracking week, according to Luminate. The new No. 1…… More
Taylor Swift recently released the music video for “Fortnight”, her first collaboration with Post Malone. The song is from Swift’s most recent album, The Tortured Poets Department. “Fortnight” sees Swift sing about a romance that lasted just a couple of weeks. Malone joins Swift on the second verse and stays through the remainder of the…… More
Nicki Minaj recently share “FTCU (Sleeze Mix), featuring Travis Scott, Chris Brown and Sexyy Red, on streaming services. The nearly 4-minute remix sees all three guests delivering verses, with Sexxy Red delivering the tamest bars. The cover art shows Minaj kneeling on the oversized silver title of the track with a pair of black speakers…… More
Drake officially shared his Kendrick Lamar diss track “Push Ups” to streaming services on Friday (April 19), a few days after the track’s leak. The track sees Drake responding to Lamar’s barbed verses on Metro Boomin and Future’s “Like That,” which took aim at him and J. Cole. Drake does not target only Lamar on…… More
Hardy recently released a “country” version of Snoop Dogg & Dr. Dre’s 1994 hit single “Gin and Juice.” Hardy recorded the cover after Snoop, Dre and Jimmy Iovine tapped him to cut his version of “Gin and Juice” for the launch of their new beverage line of the same name. “A while back, I got…… More
