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Mitch Borden

Midland

Permian Basin Reporter and Producer at KRTP (Alpine, TX)

Permian Basin Reporter for @marfaradio looking for stories in and outside of the oil field. Email: [email protected]

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Articles

  • Who will tariffs hurt the most?

    2 weeks ago | marketplace.org | Kimberly Adams |Stephanie Hughes |Mitch Borden |Caleigh Wells

    Apr 4, 2025

  • Midland County officials reverse course on library review committee

    2 weeks ago | marfapublicradio.org | Mitch Borden

    Midland County Commissioners on Tuesday approved a new library materials reconsideration policy that takes the power to remove books away from a citizen-led review committee and gives it back to the county’s library director. The move comes just three months after commissioners created the citizens review committee and gave it the “sole authority” over reviewing books in the children’s and young adult sections brought up for formal reconsideration.

  • In West Texas, a community struggles to access running water

    2 weeks ago | marketplace.org | Mitch Borden |Amanda Peacher

    More and more people are flocking to Texas — making it one of the fastest growing states in the country. The population explosion also means an increase in the demand for water. Take West Odessa — many residents don’t have running water and this is in a region where the multi-billion dollar oil industry is booming. But figuring out how to pay for new infrastructure to get water lines where they need to be is a big problem.

  • Desert Dispatch Vol. 41

    1 month ago | marfapublicradio.org | Mitch Borden

    As the Paramount+ show “Landman” begins production on its second season, Marfa Public Radio’s Mitch Borden caught up with Christian Wallace, the co-creator of the series, to talk about its first season and what it was like to go from reporting on the Permian Basin to creating a hit show about it.  The oil field that stretches out across West Texas can be a brutal place. Toxic gas leaks out of old wells. A spark at the wrong time can ignite an explosion.

  • In West Odessa, locals are searching for ways to expand access to running water

    1 month ago | texasstandard.org | Mitch Borden

    Over the years, West Odessa’s population has grown and more people have moved beyond existing water lines. Tavarez said locals expected they’d eventually get running water, but that never happened. That’s forced her family and others to have to drive to get non-potable water from questionable groundwater wells for general use around the house and to buy bottled water to drink. This can get expensive: Tavarez said her family spends hundreds of dollars a month on water.

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Mitch Borden
Mitch Borden @BordenMitch
16 Nov 24

RT @travisbubenik: Notable about Odessa's new ban on transgender people using bathrooms matching their gender identity: It goes beyond cit…

Mitch Borden
Mitch Borden @BordenMitch
3 Oct 24

RT @AmandaDrane: New geyser today in West Texas - salty, oily water rushing about 100 feet in the air just west of Toyah, near the Davis Mo…

Mitch Borden
Mitch Borden @BordenMitch
27 Sep 24

RT @travisbubenik: We often hear about industrial fires and accidents in places like Houston, but one recent incident in the West Texas oil…