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I know it's not her fault - and I'm really proud of her fingernail trimming- but KBTX needs to teach their non-Texan anchors (Sophia tonight) how to pronounce "Mexia" and "Palestine" when speaking of towns in this state. She butchered both tonight in 30 seconds. I'm guessing the newscast director had no idea either. She also needs help on "Perseids" too…..
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In reply to EBrazosAg • 10:11p, 8/9/26
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6:33a, 8/12/26
Currently their web security certificate is expired. Another reason to love them is you don't have to follow them on the internet.
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In reply to UmustBKidding • 7:07a, 8/12/26
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Currently their web security certificate is expired. Another reason to love them is you don't have to follow them on the internet.

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This server could not prove that it is www.kbtx.com; its security certificate expired in the last day. This may be caused by a misconfiguration or an attacker intercepting your connection

Proceed to www.kbtx.com (unsafe)


Cut them some slack, most likely an intern or equivalent as the webmaster. But is not a good look for KBTX.
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In reply to doubledog • 7:32a, 8/12/26
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doubledog said:
UmustBKidding said:
Currently their web security certificate is expired. Another reason to love them is you don't have to follow them on the internet.

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This server could not prove that it is www.kbtx.com; its security certificate expired in the last day. This may be caused by a misconfiguration or an attacker intercepting your connection

Proceed to www.kbtx.com (unsafe)


Cut them some slack, most likely an intern or equivalent as the webmaster. But is not a good look for KBTX.

It's happened to the big boys too like Google, Spotify, and Microsoft (to name a few) in the past few years. These certificates expire after a few, sometimes many, years so it's very easy to lose track of and sometimes the people who last set them up are long gone.
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In reply to CN • 8:30a, 8/12/26
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CN said:
doubledog said:
UmustBKidding said:
Currently their web security certificate is expired. Another reason to love them is you don't have to follow them on the internet.

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This server could not prove that it is www.kbtx.com; its security certificate expired in the last day. This may be caused by a misconfiguration or an attacker intercepting your connection

Proceed to www.kbtx.com (unsafe)


Cut them some slack, most likely an intern or equivalent as the webmaster. But is not a good look for KBTX.

It's happened to the big boys too like Google, Spotify, and Microsoft (to name a few) in the past few years. These certificates expire after a few, sometimes many, years so it's very easy to lose track of and sometimes the people who last set them up are long gone.


I had a client that was a large multi-national cloud provider.

They took a huge outage a few years back because a large number of their SSL certs expired right around Christmas.

I had pitched our management solution that would warn them about this. Their execs, poo-pooed it, saying "it's too expensive, and our guys do that manually."

….the day it happened, my phone rang at 4:30am. They suddenly found the money.
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In reply to CN • 8:37a, 8/12/26
CN said:
doubledog said:
UmustBKidding said:
Currently their web security certificate is expired. Another reason to love them is you don't have to follow them on the internet.

Quote:
This server could not prove that it is www.kbtx.com; its security certificate expired in the last day. This may be caused by a misconfiguration or an attacker intercepting your connection

Proceed to www.kbtx.com (unsafe)


Cut them some slack, most likely an intern or equivalent as the webmaster. But is not a good look for KBTX.

It's happened to the big boys too like Google, Spotify, and Microsoft (to name a few) in the past few years. These certificates expire after a few, sometimes many, years so it's very easy to lose track of and sometimes the people who last set them up are long gone.

The big boys have no excuse, an intern can drop the ball a few times.
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In reply to motherrunnersBCS • 9:24a, 8/12/26
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I thought the cottage food safety laws changed back in September. I remember there being excitement that cheesecake etc. could now be sold by home bakers as long as they were effectively labeled as home baked and you eat at your own risk. Nothing about having to be face-to-face. People have been selling eggs out of coolers at the end of their driveways.


Part of the transaction having to be face to face has always been part of the law. Like I can take orders online through my website but delivery/pickup has to be in person.
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In reply to UmustBKidding • 9:46a, 8/12/26
UmustBKidding said:
Currently their web security certificate is expired. Another reason to love them is you don't have to follow them on the internet.


Saw that this morning. Figured it was something like that.
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9:56a, 8/12/26
The reality is that this has been automatic if configured properly for awhile. They use Lets Encrypt certs, which cost nothing and are short lived to raise security. Their goal is 6 day life for sites that need maximum protection. They are updated using ACME protocol (no coyote required) and simple tools like Certbot does this for you without intervention.
I'm not even a web guy, but still lazy enough to make sure that the "do this for me" infrastructure is configured when I do the SSL setup.
Yes may have been done by an intern, and likely not locally but if your website is part of your revenue stream upgrade your intern to 21 century capability.
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Covering 30 at Navasota R widening like its new news. So Rusty. Been there and done it as a project for well more than a year. I'm pretty sure the foreign countries run the bots that crank out 75% of what drives the "news" locally these days. And they have 0% awareness.
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In reply to EBrazosAg • 7:06a, 8/13/26
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Covering 30 at Navasota R widening like its new news. So Rusty. Been there and done it as a project for well more than a year. I'm pretty sure the foreign countries run the bots that crank out 75% of what drives the "news" locally these days. And they have 0% awareness.

Since the beginning, F35 has reported that the 30 at the Navasota R was the most vulnerable aspect of the Terafab plan, yet Rusty fails to acknowledge our contributions. I assume that F35 is not a foreign bot, or else Rusty would have run with it.
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5:14p, 8/13/26


Are you sure trusty Rusty. I think TxDOT will have a say on all numbered highways/streets.
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In reply to doubledog • 6:06p, 8/13/26
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Are you sure trusty Rusty. I think TxDOT will have a say on all numbered highways/streets.


I have a question for the city attorney and/or some personal injury attorneys.

Medians were installed for safety. Data shows they reduce accidents.

If city removes medians, what is the city's liability when someone is seriously hurt or killed in an accident when someone turns left in an area where a median was removed?
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In reply to doubledog • 6:33p, 8/13/26
You're feeding him a lot of views and clicks considering how much you dislike him.
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In reply to b0ridi • 6:50p, 8/13/26
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You're feeding him a lot of views and clicks considering how much you dislike him.

You are wrong, I like Rusty, that is why I repost his posts.
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In reply to BiochemAg97 • 7:48p, 8/13/26
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BiochemAg97 said:
doubledog said:


Are you sure trusty Rusty. I think TxDOT will have a say on all numbered highways/streets.


I have a question for the city attorney and/or some personal injury attorneys.

Medians were installed for safety. Data shows they reduce accidents.

If city removes medians, what is the city's liability when someone is seriously hurt or killed in an accident when someone turns left in an area where a median was removed?

Where's the data? No one has seen it. How many accidents have occurred from making tight u-turns? How many businesses/livelihoods have been dramatically affected?
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In reply to Sleepnumber • 8:18p, 8/13/26
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Sleepnumber said:
BiochemAg97 said:
doubledog said:


Are you sure trusty Rusty. I think TxDOT will have a say on all numbered highways/streets.


I have a question for the city attorney and/or some personal injury attorneys.

Medians were installed for safety. Data shows they reduce accidents.

If city removes medians, what is the city's liability when someone is seriously hurt or killed in an accident when someone turns left in an area where a median was removed?

Where's the data? No one has seen it. How many accidents have occurred from making tight u-turns? How many businesses/livelihoods have been dramatically affected?


There is lots of data out there. It is well established which is why median installs were pushed locally to use federal transportation safety funding. Here is Florida and Utah.

https://cmfclearinghouse.fhwa.dot.gov/study_detail.php?stid=321
"evaluate the safety impact of median conversion from two-way left-turn lanes (TWLTLs) to raised medians in Florida." "results showed a 30.3 percent reduction in the total crash rate after median conversion. Median conversion was particularly effective in reducing rear-end, angle, left-turn, and right-turn crash rates"

https://cmfclearinghouse.fhwa.dot.gov/study_detail.php?stid=213
"reduction in overall crash frequency of 25 percent and frequency of severe crashes of 36 percent along corridors where raised medians were installed"

As for u-turn collisions: generally going to be a u-turn on a green arrow, so mostly conflicts with right on red. Both vehicles are moving slow so likely a near miss or low speed collision. Occasionally, there will be a u-turn on flashing yellow or opposing traffic running a red light that would lead to a significant collision, but the same collision could have occurred anywhere along the road prior to medians. A reduction in conflict points pretty consistently reduces the overall number of collisions.

If CoB was sitting on data that showed BCS is totally unique and medians increased accidents unlike everywhere else, they should be ripping them out not just having hearings and votes to appease the "say no to medians" crowd.

My guess is you haven't seen local data because the medians haven't been there long enough. I would probably look at a 5 year period pre and post medians to evaluate both the reduction in accidents and the statistical significance, looking at year to year variability as a way to estimate error. But I don't know, I don't do traffic safety analysis.
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In reply to Sleepnumber • 8:26p, 8/13/26
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Sleepnumber said:
BiochemAg97 said:
doubledog said:


Are you sure trusty Rusty. I think TxDOT will have a say on all numbered highways/streets.


I have a question for the city attorney and/or some personal injury attorneys.

Medians were installed for safety. Data shows they reduce accidents.

If city removes medians, what is the city's liability when someone is seriously hurt or killed in an accident when someone turns left in an area where a median was removed?

Where's the data? No one has seen it. How many accidents have occurred from making tight u-turns? How many businesses/livelihoods have been dramatically affected?


This link also talks about the impact on businesses due to reduced access because of medians.

https://highways.fhwa.dot.gov/sites/fhwa.dot.gov/files/2022-06/fhwasa15006.pdf

"Studies and surveys of property owners and businesses from North Carolina, Texas, Florida,
Minnesota, Kansas, and Iowa, among others, reveal that access management projects do not
result in adverse effects, and, in fact, can be beneficial."
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1:55p, 8/14/26
TXDOT is the bully on the block. They will scrounge for statistics and manipulate them to prove their point
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"Studies and surveys of property owners and businesses from North Carolina, Texas, Florida,
Minnesota, Kansas, and Iowa, among others, reveal that access management projects do not
result in adverse effects, and, in fact, can be beneficial.

Surveys and statistics can be manipulated to swing opinion one way or the other. I can tell you I personally have stopped going to certain restaurants (mainly fast food) and an auto parts store on Texas avenue all due to placement of the medians. I've spoken to others that have done the same.

If people can't navigate a turn lane safely, they are free to travel to the next light and take detours through neighborhoods and business parking lots like everyone must now do now because of the medians. Who is thinking about the danger to people in the parking lots and narrow side streets that now have to put up with exponentially more traffic that has been funneled to their parking lots and streets?
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In reply to Ag97 • 2:25p, 8/14/26
Ag97 said:
"Studies and surveys of property owners and businesses from North Carolina, Texas, Florida,
Minnesota, Kansas, and Iowa, among others, reveal that access management projects do not
result in adverse effects, and, in fact, can be beneficial.

Surveys and statistics can be manipulated to swing opinion one way or the other. I can tell you I personally have stopped going to certain restaurants (mainly fast food) and an auto parts store on Texas avenue all due to placement of the medians. I've spoken to others that have done the same.

If people can't navigate a turn lane safely, they are free to travel to the next light and take detours through neighborhoods and business parking lots like everyone must now do now because of the medians. Who is thinking about the danger to people in the parking lots and narrow side streets that now have to put up with exponentially more traffic that has been funneled to their parking lots and streets?


What about first responders? Do you think a fire truck should go to the next block and turn around?
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In reply to Ag97 • 2:42p, 8/14/26
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Ag97 said:
"Studies and surveys of property owners and businesses from North Carolina, Texas, Florida,
Minnesota, Kansas, and Iowa, among others, reveal that access management projects do not
result in adverse effects, and, in fact, can be beneficial.

Surveys and statistics can be manipulated to swing opinion one way or the other. I can tell you I personally have stopped going to certain restaurants (mainly fast food) and an auto parts store on Texas avenue all due to placement of the medians. I've spoken to others that have done the same.

If people can't navigate a turn lane safely, they are free to travel to the next light and take detours through neighborhoods and business parking lots like everyone must now do now because of the medians. Who is thinking about the danger to people in the parking lots and narrow side streets that now have to put up with exponentially more traffic that has been funneled to their parking lots and streets?


You are now arguing medians weren't necessary because people who can't drive safely will voluntarily drive to the next light instead of using the two way turn lane? Yeah, accidents suggest there are plenty of people who think they are better drivers than they really are.

Also, cool anecdotal evidence. Every consider that for every person like you that stopped going to the fast food restaurant because it is on the wrong side of the street there is someone else going the other direction that chooses to frequent that same restaurant more often because it is on the correct side of the street for them.
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3:28p, 8/14/26
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I guess I would rather bad drivers end up hitting people in cars surrounded by metal than being funneled into neighborhoods and hitting kids and adults that might be out on the street.

And yes, my preferences are anecdotal but I have yet to meet anyone other than you that sings the praises of these medians. My guess is I'm not the outlier here but you may be.
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In reply to Ag97 • 4:06p, 8/14/26
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I guess I would rather bad drivers end up hitting people in cars surrounded by metal than being funneled into neighborhoods and hitting kids and adults that might be out on the street.

And yes, my preferences are anecdotal but I have yet to meet anyone other than you that sings the praises of these medians. My guess is I'm not the outlier here but you may be.


Got any data to support the claim of more kids and adults getting hit on the side streets?

Any anecdotal evidence where you or someone you know had to take a side street because of the medians and ended up running over a kid?
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In reply to BiochemAg97 • 4:14p, 8/14/26
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Ag97 said:
I guess I would rather bad drivers end up hitting people in cars surrounded by metal than being funneled into neighborhoods and hitting kids and adults that might be out on the street.

And yes, my preferences are anecdotal but I have yet to meet anyone other than you that sings the praises of these medians. My guess is I'm not the outlier here but you may be.


Got any data to support the claim of more kids and adults getting hit on the side streets?

Any anecdotal evidence where you or someone you know had to take a side street because of the medians and ended up running over a kid?


I guess we will live under the blanket that government is our daddy and will treat us like children…I personally don't like medians, and the studies you have posted are probably 100% accurate…certainly auto insurance companies haven't taken noticed since my rates keep going up…and yes, I am fully aware how insurance works and there is more that goes into it…we just keep falling into a nanny state where government always knows best…
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5:58p, 8/14/26
Among the most significant violators of roads without medians are individuals who make left turns from side streets into the center turn lane, subsequently traveling a block or two before merging into their intended lane.

Medians stop that nonsense. Medians represent the cost we incur due to reckless drivers who believe they can outsmart fate. Safety is established not by the most skilled drivers, but rather by the least competent ones.
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In reply to doubledog • 6:49p, 8/14/26
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Among the most significant violators of roads without medians are individuals who make left turns from side streets into the center turn lane, subsequently traveling a block or two before merging into their intended lane.

Medians stop that nonsense. Medians represent the cost we incur due to reckless drivers who believe they can outsmart fate. Safety is established not by the most skilled drivers, but rather by the least competent ones.
They don't stop that nonsense. They just concentrate the nonsense in fewer areas.
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