PUBLIC HEALTH
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From the moment Steve Young canceled the Milam County Junior Livestock Association show, his days as county judge were numbered.
Young didn’t realize that at the time, of course. It was March 2020, a new virus was rapidly spreading around the country, and politics was the last thing this retired lawyer-turned-cattle rancher was thinking about. He was just doing what he felt needed to be done to keep the 25,000 residents of this rural county 90 minutes northeast of Austin safe.
But the blowback was intense, he said.
