{"id":449819,"date":"2026-09-28T04:04:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T04:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/449819\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T04:04:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T04:04:19","slug":"talking-points-9-27-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/449819\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Points &#8212; 9\/27\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.everythinglubbock.com\/news\/local-news\/talking-points-9-27-26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LUBBOCK, Texas<\/a> \u2014 This week on Talking Points, KAMC\u2019s Jen Phillips talked with two senator candidates, James Talarico and Ken Paxton.<\/p>\n<p>Talarico joined Jen virtually from the campaign trail, as he discussed issues that impact rural and West Texas. Jen also attended Ken Paxton\u2019s tour stop here in the Hub City, where Paxton broke down his campaign\u2019s mission and goals. <\/p>\n<p>Back in the studio, Jen discussed a Lubbock County Commission vote to support an independent investigation to determine whether any laws were broken when two people were paid for a commissioner\u2019s post position. KAMC\u2019s Harper Buck was at the meeting and reviews what the district attorney had to say about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas \u2014 This week on Talking Points, KAMC\u2019s Jen Phillips talked with two senator candidates, James Talarico&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-449819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}