
Remembering Boca Chica Beach—Before Elon Musk Came to Town
Destruction isn’t always something physical, but also something done to memory.
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Destruction isn’t always something physical, but also something done to memory.
The new leader of the lower chamber finally announced committee assignments, formalizing a new order in the lower chamber.
Despite court orders to release federal grants, many organizations working on climate projects still don’t have access to contractually obligated money.
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Another bad idea whose time has come in the Texas Legislature is upon us. It’s time to revive my old proposal that Texas be made into a national laboratory for bad government. Having a bad idea in your state? Come to Texas and see how it works out in practice.
With another legislative session that could pile on even more anti-trans policies, LBGTQ+ groups grapple with how to protect their communities.
Conservative state lawmakers have filed hundreds of bills targeting the school finance system, LGBTQ+ students, undocumented immigrant children, and more.
In his biennial budget projection, Comptroller Glenn Hegar says the state will have a healthy surplus, plus a full economic stabilization fund for the first time in history.
Meet the Lone Star megadonors, think tankers, and politicians poised to play big roles in Trump’s comeback tour.
Derek Maltz formerly worked at PenLink, a Nebraska-based tech firm that has sold software that can track phone locations without a warrant to agencies like ICE and Texas DPS.
Migrants’ bodies pile up in New Mexico after Texas cracks down in the sprawling El Paso sector.
Border states brace themselves, while the president insists on an optimistic view.
Persecuted and unable to change anything, we were unwelcome in Russia. Then Mexican and U.S. policies brought more trouble.
Meet the DJ and journalist behind Houston’s Ice House Radio, who has mingled with jazz legends and reported abroad—and for whom recent violence in the Middle East is personal.
A new book by the publisher of the Uvalde Leader-News illuminates events that forever altered lives in this small Texas city.
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