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On Sept. 1, 2021 Texas signed into law a bill (also known as the Texas Heartbeat Act) that makes abortions illegal after the first six weeks of pregnancy – when you can first detect a heartbeat. Another aspect of the bill is that citizens can sue those who have had an abortion or have helped with abortion in any way for up to $10,000 in legal fees. Art by Laurel Seidensticker.

An undue burden

Kailey Shirrell, social media editor September 27, 2021

Heartbeats have always had everlasting effects on culture and society. They have even spurned poetry and great literature, leading to works such as The Tell Tale Heart or even many of Shakespeare’s sonnets....

Madi's melody

Madi’s melody

Charlotte Heinrich, features writer April 2, 2018

"Everything’s bigger in Texas,” Madi Janysek, senior, said. “I’ll keep telling you that until the day I die.” Janysek is no stranger to the Lone Star state, the place she still calls her home....

“I have had a full knee replacement on [my] leg already and I have had complete facial reconstruction surgery. I was training one of the longhorns and I was walking him… and he jumped forward and I lost grip on his horn and he whipped his head back and caught me all the way across the left side of my face and just turned the bone into mush." -Isaac Martin

Voices of Dallas

TKC Staff December 14, 2017

Some TKC staffers and Pioneer staffers attended the Journalism Education Association (JEA) conference Nov. 15 to Nov. 17. Throughout the conference, we went around the city of Dallas and talked to some...

Photo gallery: summer in the south

Jordan Roundtree, photographer August 20, 2015

During the month of July, hundreds of AAU basketball players get the privilege to travel across the country to do what they love. Along the way, players and their families get to take advantage of all...

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