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2Once Again, School District Shuts Down Tax Break for Gas Exporter

3Feeling the Burn in Big Bend

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6Climate Science ‘Skeptic’ Lamar Smith Claims to Aid Scientists in Latest Crusade

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3Texas Judge Dismisses Trans Prisoner’s Lawsuit Seeking Gender Confirmation Surgery

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1Texas State Quietly Removes Confederate Monument

2Some Texas Schools are Still Fighting Decades-Old Desegregation Orders

3Parents: Schools Using Transgender Suit As Cover to Discriminate

4South Texas School Security Guard Arrested After Allegedly Throwing Girl to Ground

5Hostile Takeover

6Once Again, School District Shuts Down Tax Break for Gas Exporter

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6Our Blue Period

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by Gayle Reaves

The House Always Wins

Some legislators want to keep affordable housing out of their districts — and they've given themselves the power to do it.

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Mon, Feb 1, 2016 |

Some legislators want to keep affordable housing out of their districts — and they've given themselves the power to do it....Read More

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by Alex Hannaford

Postcards: Life In a Colonia Called ‘The Ranch’

Tue, Mar 5, 2013 |

Cuevitas is one of several thousand colonias in South Texas—impoverished communities where many people live without proper sanitation, electricity or running ...Read More

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