2020: Local stories that had us talking
Jan 1, 2021 |
From left, Julie Vasquez, Stacy Bailey and represenatives of Youth First.
On the national level, COVID-19, the presidential election, the Black Lives Matter movement and social justice issues and, for the LGBTQ community in particular, the U.S. Supreme Court’s Bostock ruling baning anti-LGBTQ employment discrimination were the biggest stories of the year.
But here in North Texas, there were some more local stories that ranked at the top of the list, too. As we kick off the first week of 2021, Dallas Voice looks back at the local stories that had North Texans talking in 2021.
do you mean like there might be grocery stores that are open that you might be able to walk to or wade to? yeah. i think the grocery store around the corner is actually closed, but we have several convenience stores within a few blocks that have been posting on social media that they re open. we walked to one this morning to get some milk. and he said that yesterday he was the only store open in the area and he never stopped. he was full all day with people coming to get all kinds of things. all right. well, stacy, please keep us posted. i m glad you re safe, your husband and your dog. i know it s quite an adjustment for all of you and that it was an opportunity for your neighbors as well to get to know them and help each other out in this time of need. and we really appreciate your talking to us. we re waiting for the governor of south carolina who will be holding a press conference very shortly to give us the very latest. so again, thank you very much. we ll be right back.
scramble to safety as the floodwaters rose. i want to bring in stacy bailey, she lives in charleston in a neighborhood hit hard by the flooding. thank you for joining us by phone. tell us, you have been sending some pretty dramatic pictures, but what has it been like for you? i understand you, your husband, your dog, you ve all been trying to get through all of this water, get to safety. what have you experienced? well, it s been pretty intense. yesterday morning we woke up pretty quickly at 6:30 a.m. to waist deep water outside. our cars were not parked quite far away enough, so we were struggling where what to do to get the cars out of the floodwaters. our shed in our pack yard had everything floating in it, so we were putting everything in the shed into kayaks to get them on the back deck and try to get them out of the water.