More than a dozen counties in Northeast Texas have signed resolutions to create a groundwater conservation district in a bid to protect local groundwater.

Devore lives in Wood County, an election bellwether that only once since 1964 has not picked the presidential winner. Ohio is again up for grabs in the presidential election. Four years after Trump won Ohio relatively easily, most polls show the state is again a toss-up. “That’s why Wood County always swings,” Miller said. Republicans hold nearly every elected office in Wood County and have long dominated local politics.