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With more and more jobs being done remotely, it's changed the on-location work paradigm we've been living with for many years.

A wedding is often the most expensive events that people experience in their life.

The republicans are holding up a vote on the debt ceiling to fund the US through February, and they are using it to try and shut down the vaccination mandate. How will it end this time?

Tuesday on KFYO Mornings with Dave King and Matt Martin, Lubbock County Judge Curtis Parrish joined Dave and Matt to talk about COVID-19 deaths, what was done to prevent the spread of COVID-19, raising the sheriff's budget, federal funding for Lubbock county, an update on the Lubbock County Expo Center, and more...

Tuesday on KFYO Mornings with Dave King and Matt Martin, Lubbock County Judge Curtis Parrish joined Dave and Matt to talk about the county budget, their criminal justice assessment and how it will affect the jail, the citizens committee working on the expo center, vaccines, and more...

Monday on KFYO Mornings with Dave King and Matt Martin, the Lubbock County Sheriff Kelly Rowe joined Dave and Matt to talk about the state of the county jail, vaccines for inmates, their budget, border crossings, crime in Lubbock county, gang numbers, and more...

Friday on KFYO Mornings with Dave King and Matt Martin, County Commissioners Chad Seay and Jason Corley, as well as Steve Evans, joined Dave King and guest host Matt Crow to talk about the recent diagnosis of Donald Trump, various issues in the county, Planned Parenthood, the women's prison needing expansion, the sheriff's department budget, mail in ballots and electronic voting, and more... Read

"Public safety is about letting every citizen know. (The cellphone) isn't a foolproof device...but the advantage that were going after is that its another tool in the toolbox. It's another way to protect the citizens," Jeff said.

"I think what we approved and what will come back before us maintains a good balance of respecting the history of our downtown, but at the same time being able to provide streets that are drivable and that are going to be cost effective to maintain in the future," Massengale said.

The budget includes a one-cent property tax rate increase which brings the effective tax rate in Lubbock County to 55.802 per $100 dollar valuation.