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Most Recent in Environment:

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4In Southeast Lubbock Neighborhood, Residents are Fed Up With a Feedlot

5With Coal Plants Offline, the Air in Central and East Texas Has Cleared

6It’s Illegal to Take Drone Photos of Cattle Feedlots in Texas. Press Groups Say That Violates the First Amendment.

Most Recent in Border:

1In Migrants Camps Along the Texas-Mexico Border, Close Quarters and Closing Borders Raise Concerns

2U.S. Supreme Court Sides with Trump Administration on ‘Remain in Mexico’

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4Trump’s Wall May Have to Avoid Multiple Historic Cemeteries

5Following a Protest, ICE Transfers Dozens of Asylum Seekers to an Isolated Laredo Facility

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Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

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3Texas Prisons Ban Greeting Cards, Expand Drug-Sniffing Dog Searches to Visitors

4Alec Karakatsanis on the ‘Usual Cruelty’ of the Criminal Justice System

5Reform Candidates are Trying to Change the Definition of a ‘Progressive Prosecutor’ in Texas

6Jail Deaths in Bexar County Highlight ‘Callous’ Care in Custody

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1Tough Decisions Ahead for School Leaders in Rural Texas

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4The Cost of Carve-Outs

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3The COVID-19 Crisis Points the Way Toward a Better Texas

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6Thousands of Rape Kits in Texas Went Untested For Years. Lavinia Masters Is Ending That.

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213 Small Texas Presses to Read Right Now

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5Gabriel García Márquez and the (Comforting) Case for Embracing Failure

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6A Chain Reaction

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Most Recent in Poetry:

1Author Saeed Jones on Empathy, the Power of Memoir, and Growing up Gay in North Texas

2Remembering W.S. Merwin, Honorary Texan

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4Houston Poet Analicia Sotelo’s Debut Smashes Latino Stereotypes

5Parallel Planes

Tag Archives: Highland Lakes

lake travis, 100th meridian, 2011 drought

by Christopher Collins

Austin’s on the Wrong Side of the 100th Meridian

The invisible line that divides the arid western part of the country from the wetter eastern half is on the move, and that has important implications for the Texas capital.

Wed, May 16, 2018 |

Meet Robert Lee. Not the Confederate general, the town. Robert Lee, Texas is a ranching community of 1,025 that lost its only source of water to the second-wors...Read More

Dawn Buckingham

by Naveena Sadasivam

Senate Candidates Struggle to Make Waves on Water Issues

In the race to represent SD 24, Republican candidates Susan King and Dawn Buckingham face a difficult balancing act on water conservation and pricing.

Sat, May 21, 2016 |

The runoff for SD 24, sprawling from Abilene to Bandera, is between an outsider ophthalmologist (look out, Donna Campbell!) and a five-term state rep....Read More

by Forrest Wilder

LCRA Votes to Cut Off Rice Farmers for a Third Year

Tue, Nov 19, 2013 |

The mood was grim among folks from Bay City, Eagle Lake and other coastal communities today as the Lower Colorado River Authority board voted 8-7 for an emergen...Read More

by Forrest Wilder

The War of the Colorado River Heats up at the Lege

Tue, Apr 9, 2013 |

A Senate committee approved legislation today forcing the Lower Colorado River Authority to cut off water to rice farmers during times of severe drought....Read More

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