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Tag Archives: Hays County

A golden cheeked warbler

by Christopher Collins

Could Kinder Morgan’s ‘Permian Highway’ Scar the Hill Country?

On its 430-mile path to the Gulf, the natural gas pipeline would gash the iconic Hill Country, a region relatively free from oil and gas development.

Tue, Feb 12, 2019 |

The golden-cheeked warbler — a compact, yellow-headed songbird that migrates from Mexico to Central Texas each March — is in trouble. The endangered species...Read More

by Faylita Hicks

Lost in Limbo in the Hays County Jail

For 45 painful, lonely days, I waited and waited to be convicted of a crime.

Wed, Feb 6, 2019 |

Mel Westfall for the Texas Observer The cold bit through the thin wool blanket and climbed up the short sleeves of my Women of the World Poetry Slam T-shirt as ...Read More

by Justin Miller

Hays County’s Transformation Gives Democrats Hope in Hill Country House District

Fri, Oct 5, 2018 |

Erin Zwiener bobs up and down, soothing her three-month old infant strapped to her chest, as she makes her pitch to voters in a Buda subdivision. “When I was ...Read More

by Forrest Wilder

Dan Patrick to the Rescue on Hays County Groundwater Bill

Fri, May 29, 2015 |

After his tour of the Wimberley flood damage, Dan Patrick revived a groundwater bill that if passed would protect residents’ water wells in Hays County....Read More

Wimberley town hall on water

by Forrest Wilder

Wimberley Groundwater Protection Faces Challenge from El Paso Democrat

Tue, May 26, 2015 |

In a last-minute surprise, an El Paso Democrat is holding up a bill that would bring groundwater regulation to the “white zone” of Hays County, an area with...Read More

Wimberley town hall on water

by Forrest Wilder

Hill Country Water Torture

Mon, Mar 9, 2015 |

Fighting over groundwater rights is all too common in Texas, but the Electro Purification deal has inflamed people unlike any other. ...Read More

by Fauzeya Rahman

Untapped

How graywater could be a conservation method for the masses. (But isn't.)

Wed, Nov 19, 2014 |

Graywater has the potential to be a significant water conservation method in Texas but cities have done very little to encourage its use....Read More

Blanco River

by Forrest Wilder

Water, MUD and Beer: Recipe for an Explosive Hill Country Development Fight

Fri, May 3, 2013 |

In hindsight, perhaps Greg LaMantia, a scion of a South Texas family who made its fortune as a regional Budweiser distributor, shouldn't have named his 5,000-ac...Read More

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