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4Former TCEQ Employee Files Race and Age Discrimination Lawsuit Against Agency

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Most Recent in Education:

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5SMU Just Lost Its Independent Student Newspaper. Is Your College Next?

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5Professor Trill

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4Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo on Sanctuary Cities, Police Unions and Tommy Guns

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5Sarah Bird’s Lively New Novel Resurrects a Little-Known Civil War Hero

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2Parallel Planes

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