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As the strong mayor of Texas’ largest city, the former dean of the Texas Senate should be able to get his way in Houston. But he faces a shrinking ability to do so without vindictive state Republicans or other regional actors intervening.
Tapachula, five miles from Mexico’s border with Guatemala, has become a principal destination for the world’s deportees. And in a cruel twist, even Mexicans expelled from the U.S. have found themselves there, regrouping after being deported—not home to Mexico—but first to Central America.
Reservoirs have rebounded from critical levels, but an emergency order absolves the city of requirements to resume releasing water for the Nueces River Delta.
Profile ⋆
The accomplished Houston musician, known as lead singer for The Suffers, draws on surprising sources of inspiration and puts “the message into the music” in her new album, “Land of the Neon Sun.”
Politics ⋆
Some conservatives say they won’t give Governor Greg Abbott a fourth term after what he’s done to the public education system in Texas.
A note from the editor-in-chief
Texas’ local governments are facing growing fiscal pain. What’s that mean for the 2026 elections—and the 2027 session?
Texas would make large AI hyperscalers pay for the wires that connect them. Whether they must also pay directly for the broader grid work needed to serve them is still an open question.
College administrators wrongly hope that anticipatory obedience will satisfy a GOP-run Texas Legislature that is increasingly hostile toward education.
“It’s gotten that bad: People don’t want to register their children to school. They don’t want to do groceries. They don’t even want to stop by the store for their morning coffee.”
The attorney general’s office once aggressively pursued fraudsters targeting immigrants. Not on Ken Paxton’s watch.
The lawsuit seeks an immediate injunction, arguing that CBP construction and surveying activities in Big Bend violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
A decade on, the iconic campus protest has come to symbolize a time of relatively free expression.
A new novel about workers at an organic grocery store asks us to consider questions of labor and dignity in the Texas capital.
“We’re gonna be riding around areas where most everybody thinks it’s unsafe, and you’re gonna see that there’s really nothing to be worried about.”
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