Local Interest

A lawn near the Rayburn Student Center on the campus of Texas A&M University-Commerce is expected to be covered with a large number of backpacks on Monday, March 11, which are displayed to share the stories of those who’ve lost loved ones to suicide.  

Texas A&M University-Commerce is required by mandate to distribute certain crisis hotline numbers to all students, faculty, and staff as a matter of course. Title IX Coordinator Nathan Perry, who works in the university's Office of Compliance, suggests there may be another way to make sure these vital contacts aren't filed away and forgotten.

Texas Association of Broadcasters 2018 Play by Play Submission: John Mark Dempsey (play by play) and Kevin Jefferies (color commentary) call for the Commerce Tigers on their early road game facing the Kemp Yellowjackets. Commerce had not yet put up an offensive score as they faced Kemp, who had bounced the Tigers out of the playoffs the year prior, for the 3rd game of the 2018 football season.

This clip follows Commerce as they take a lead over Kemp in a high-scoring first half.

The Big Friday Night Scoreboard Program has been serving Northeast Texas football fans for a decade with host Jared Taylor, Co-host BJ Laudermilk, and co-host/board operator Ryan Fulkerson running the show in 2018.

Texas Association of Broadcasters 2018 Play by Play Submission: Kevin Jefferies (play by play) and Brian Ball (color commentary) call a Big Friday Night Scoreboard Show Game of the Week as the Cooper Bulldogs host the Blue Ridge Tigers.

In this clip, Cooper goes up early in a game they controlled from start to finish.

The new president of Texas A&M University-Commerce, Dr. Mark Rudin, stopped by the studios of KETR during his first week on the job.  Classes for the Fall 2018 semester at A&M-Commerce began today.

Josh Giles is taking his lifelong passion of music to the next level. He studied music at University of North Texas, he's been refining his craft through workshops, and he just produced a new single in Commerce with Brad Davis.

Public radio has a diversity problem. In a medium that struggles so hard to be balanced, neutral, and inclusive in everything it does, it still has few black female reporters and hosts.

DaLyah Jones is one of those few. Actually, in Texas, she’s the only person who can claim to be a black, female public radio host. She is a reporter, podcaster, and fellow All Things Considered host at KUT-FM in Austin. Turns out, that makes her somewhat of a pioneer.

And it gets lonely.

College students right now are the political leaders and creators of tomorrow. Most college students don't know how to pay taxes, yet, they are expected to be able to comprehend what is going on in the world right now, and make decisions based on this knowledge. 

Slang is an defining part of many generations, the terms and meanings change over the years but the purpose remains the same. In this comedic episode of Points of Interest host Emma Anderson and guest Zach review  words and phrases often used by their generation today, and they attempt to put definitions to each. Zach also reviews a few terms he has learned that are different from this area of East Texas to show how slang can differ across the United States! 

If you haven’t listened to Part 1 of 'You, Here', go back and catch up then listen to this episode.

Part 2 of 'You, Here' focuses solely on guest Scott. He is the first non-student featured in this podcast who has traveled and lived all over before ending here in East Texas. He compares what it was like growing up in New Jersey to settling here now. This episode carries over several themes and topics from the previous part of this series and develops them more.

In this episode series of Points of Interest we explore the question, “What is it like to be you… here?” through three totally different stories from people currently living in East Texas, who aren’t from here.