Most Recent in Politics:

1Texas’ Presidential Candidates Break Out Briefly During the Democratic Debate

2Texas Leads in Polling Place Closures Since 2013

3Senator Lucio Draws Serious Primary Challenge

4As Texodus Continues, Tom DeLay’s Tall Political Shadow Fades

5They Persisted

6‘Mistakes Were Made’: Greg Abbott’s Non-Denial Denial on Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric

Most Recent in Environment:

1The Large Ask

2Bridge to Nowhere

3How Texas Prairies Could Help Combat Climate Change

4Julián Castro’s Climate Plan Addresses Environmental Racism

5Two Houston Archives Gather Harvey Memories for Historians of the Future

6The Environmental Protection Agency Wants to Repeal its Methane Emissions Limits

Most Recent in Border:

1Migrants at Laredo Tent Court Tell Stories of Kidnappings and Violence While Pleading Not to Be Returned to Mexico

2The Trump Administration Blows Its Border Wall Budget in South Texas

3Journalists Blocked from Attending Secretive Immigration Tent Courts

4‘El Paso Firme’ Music Festival Calls on Texans to Peacefully Resist White Supremacy

5Thousands Have Disappeared Crossing the U.S.-Mexico Border. They Deserve to be Remembered.

6Starr County Proposes Alternative Border Wall Plan

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1‘A Watershed Moment’ for Bail Reform in Harris County

2Ken Paxton Wants ‘Ultimate Home Field Advantage’ in Felony Case

3The High Cost of Hays County’s Decision to Keep Prosecuting Low-Level Marijuana Cases

4A Poor Defense

5Texas’ New Medical Marijuana Law Doesn’t Cover Veterans Suffering from PTSD

6Death of Dog Trainer Highlights Strenuous Heat and Working Conditions at Texas Prisons

Most Recent in Education:

1The Cost of Carve-Outs

2Texas Legislature Improves Suicide Prevention in Schools, but Makes Little Progress for Adults

3Texas House Considers Free College For Students Experiencing Homelessness

4‘The Wolf is in the Henhouse’

5‘We’re Not Stupid’: Texas Teachers Take on Dan Patrick and the Legislature over Dismal Education Funding

6In Violation of Texas Law, Most High Schools Aren’t Giving Students the Chance to Register to Vote

Most Recent in Health Care:

1American Health Care is Broken, Especially in Texas. What Can We Do About It?

2Thousands of Rape Kits in Texas Went Untested For Years. Lavinia Masters Is Ending That.

3‘My Congregation Trusts Women’: Progressive Faith Groups Counter Anti-Abortion Narratives

4A Texas Anti-Abortion Group Dramatically Missed its Family Planning Targets. Now its Founder is Suing the Federal Government for More Money.

5Molly Ivins on Universal Health Care

6The Trauma of Teen Mothers Held in Border Patrol Lockups

Most Recent in The Interview:

1If a Glacier Melts in the Arctic, the Texas Coast Feels It

2Without Transmission Lines, Renewable Energy Still has a Long Way to Go — Literally

3The Dissenter

4The Interview: Mass Resistance

5Meet Jim Allison, Texas’ Newest Nobel Laureate (and Three-Time Cancer Survivor)

6Dolores Huerta is Still Knocking on Doors and Registering Voters at 88

Most Recent in Books:

1Attica Locke’s New Mystery Novel Unearths East Texas Secrets

2The Large Ask

3How Earl Campbell Changed Football in Texas

4American Health Care is Broken, Especially in Texas. What Can We Do About It?

5‘The Secrets We Kept’ is a Finely-Structured Story of Secrets, Spies, and Secretaries

6‘The Weil Conjectures’ Rewards the Intellectually Adventurous

Most Recent in Features:

1Little Arthouse on the Prairie

2The Clothes that Make the Man

3Washington Crossing the Rio Grande

4Ghosts of the Baker Hotel

5At Home in the World

6Plight at the Museum

Most Recent in Essay:

1To Understand the El Paso Massacre, Look to the Long Legacy of Anti-Mexican Violence at the Border

2Lost in Limbo in the Hays County Jail

3The Trouble with Yoga

4Heads in the Mud

5The Day the Windows Shook

6Women’s Work

Most Recent in Eye on Texas:

1Eye on Texas: Spike Johnston

2Eye on Texas: Loren Elliott

3Eye on Texas: Charlotte Moore

4Eye on Texas: ‘My Joyful Dance’

5Eye on Texas: Ghosts of the City

6Eye on Texas: Fiesta Protesta

Most Recent in Poetry:

1Remembering W.S. Merwin, Honorary Texan

2Lost in Limbo in the Hays County Jail

3Houston Poet Analicia Sotelo’s Debut Smashes Latino Stereotypes

4Parallel Planes

5Options

6Poem: ‘Resistance’

Tag Archives: Granbury

Strangest State: A San Antonio man claiming to be an FDA inspector talked a convenience store clerk into handing over some free packs of cigarettes, then returned later to steal a beer while claiming to work for the CIA.

by Patrick Michels

Strangest State: East Texas Jedi, a Cancer Fake-Out Racket and a Lost-and-Found Zebra

Thu, Jan 28, 2016 |

HOLLYWOOD PARK // Turns out, neither the Food and Drug Administration nor the CIA is investigating the Corner Store on Loop 1604, despite repeat visits from a m...Read More

Fear the rodenator!

by Patrick Michels

Texas Gone Wild: The Year in Fowl (and Other Animal) News

Wed, Dec 23, 2015 |

The biggest trend in our coverage, though, has been animals — biting, kicking, rotting, reading, running pets and pests that have kept us sent us running for ...Read More

by Christopher Hooks

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

Fight Over LGBT-Themed Children’s Books Heats Up Hood County

Tue, Jul 14, 2015 |

During a standing-room-only Hood County Commissioners' Court meeting on Tuesday, residents voiced objections to the presence of two LGBT-themed children's books...Read More

Strangest State: Fifty Shades and the Virgin Mary

by Patrick Michels

Mon, Apr 13, 2015

In this month's Strangest State: the Virgin Mary makes an impression, and pastors compare Christian Grey's definition of submission to that of the Bible....Read More

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