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DMC Weekly Edition
DMC Weekly Edition is the audio edition of the Double Mountain Chronicle, created for Paid subscribers who want to listen to the week’s articles, local updates, community stories, columns, and editorials wherever they are.
Formerly home to The ShortCut, our quick weekly news podcast, this feed is becoming a broader audio home for Premium Chronicle content. The ShortCut will still appear from time to time with fast, need-to-know local updates, but DMC Weekly Edition will now carry the weekly paper in audio form.
Listeners will also find special features, including local Veterans stories and upcoming content like Grounds for Discussion as time allows.
Local news. Real stories. Straight from the pages of the Double Mountain Chronicle.
DMC Weekly Edition
DMC Weekly June 5, 2026
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Exclusive access to premium content!Welcome to episode two of the DMC Weekly Edition, where local news finds a new frequency.
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In this week's audio edition of the Double Mountain Chronicle, Editor Jeff Hurt leads listeners through the second installment of our investigative series on Fisher County Sheriff's Office overtime — the records behind $332,253 in payments, and what those records do, and don't, independently verify. From there, a Stonewall County landowner takes his fight over the proposed Crusoe data center to commissioners court, asking for space he can live with. The Fisher County Hospital District tables action on the Indigo I-S-245 tax abatement after the project's valuation figures stop matching across taxing entities.
From the Texas News Spotlight: a 75-year low in the U.S. cattle herd and what that means for ranchers in a thin-supply market, two Panhandle wildfires after containment, a 13-year Rio Grande water case settled at the Supreme Court, produced water and its possible second life in West Texas, and a federal farm bill that could reshape rural solar leases.
From the Public Square: Publisher Patricia Hurt on whether accountability is a standard or a slogan — and the Texas Rural Reporter, Suzanne Bellsnyder, on why the broken primary system, not any single movement, is the problem. Plus community columns from Anita Dozier, Tumbleweed Smith, and Savvy Senior, this week's obituaries, and Ag News on the USDA's Great American Cotton Plan.
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