Perry Breaks with Big Business, Tx Republican Party and His Former Self
When news broke last week that Republican mega-donor and homebuilder Bob Perry and grocery store magnate Charles Butt had hired the high-dollar lobbying firm HillCo to [...]
Six Questions for State Climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon
This is Part Seven in an occasional series of Q&As with Texans involved in issues of the environment and energy. (Read Part One with [...]
What We Know About Deer Season
We know about urine, how our scent deflects bucks and does, and so we know to crouch, to let the hay-streams loose within sight [...]
Archived Soul
I have a confession: I’ve never understood David Foster Wallace, that literary figure of monumental proportions who delighted readers with no small output of [...]
Amidst Two Major Losses, Education Advocates See Small Victories in School Finance
Monday was a rough day at the Legislature for education advocates trying to protect teacher contracts and assuage the $4 billion cuts to public [...]