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Call Them Refugees

by | Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 9:27 CST
As political leaders argue over the crisis at the Texas-Mexico border, local communities and nonprofits carry the weight.
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Unearthing a Lost World

Tue, Aug 25, 2015 |

Nearly all of the fossils in this Seymour quarry are Dimetrodon or similar “sail-backed” predators. It’s a concentration of flesh eaters unprecedented in ...Read More

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The Great Mellowing

God, Willie Nelson, and the increasingly thinkable pipe dream of marijuana reform
Mon, Aug 10, 2015 |

Thanks to God and Willie Nelson, marijuana reform is an increasingly thinkable pipe dream....Read More

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The Fight for Fair Housing

Two lawsuits are dragging Texas—and maybe the whole country—closer to the goal of integrated neighborhoods.
Tue, Aug 4, 2015 |

Two lawsuits are dragging Texas—and maybe the whole country—closer to the goal of integrated neighborhoods....Read More

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Trailer Park Ploys

How Texas families with nowhere else to go are fighting back against mobile home moguls and their ruthless business model.
Tue, Jul 28, 2015 |

The residents of North Lamar Community Mobile Home Park in Austin aren't backing down from an escalating dispute with the new owners of the park, the moguls beh...Read More

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Minding the Flock

In Granbury, evangelical leaders rally the faithful with talk of Hitler, slavery, sodomy and voter turnout.
Wed, Jul 22, 2015 |

On Friday, at the second annual Christian Values Summit, some 200 evangelicals met in the Granbury Resort Conference Center to consider America’s precipitous ...Read More

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Back in the Saddle

Can the state’s quintessential car capital be made bike-friendly?
Mon, Jul 20, 2015 |

Houston, Texas' quintessential car capital, has never been a bike-friendly city. But a growing number of Houstonians are starting to change that. ...Read More

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Reinventing Texas

History takes the stage in Palo Duro Canyon
Mon, Jul 13, 2015 |

Produced annually by the Texas Panhandle Heritage Foundation, "Texas" is the best-attended outdoor history drama in the nation. Though it debuted 50 years ago, ...Read More

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Graves of Shame

New evidence indicates wrongdoing in the handling of migrant remains in Brooks County.
Mon, Jul 6, 2015 |

A year ago, a Texas Rangers inquiry found “no evidence” of wrongdoing in the botched handling of migrant remains in Brooks County. New evidence indicates ra...Read More

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