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A 25-year-old died last month of “blunt force trauma due to a fall.” An Observer analysis found that the injury rate at “Starbase” was well above an industry national average.
Stubbornly unrealistic assessments of the region’s reservoir system turned this year’s drought conditions into an emergency.
State funding and policy have fallen short, advocates say, and the consequences are not confined to your backyard.
“The people we’re finding now dying on the U.S. side of the border are the people who could not wait.”
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Austin author and essayist Lauren Hough serves up a monster of a tale about traveling with a dog named Woody Guthrie on a road trip across America.
For candidates like James Talarico, calling to suspend fuel taxes may be an easy way to sell “affordability” to swing voters. But it would come with its own long-term policy consequences.
In rural areas like Caldwell County, local Republican officials and citizens are scrambling to find ways to empower counties and slow AI-fueled development.
On his YouTube channel, Brandon Herrera has discussed the relative merits of weapons used in mass shootings and made light of political violence. He’s now on a glide path to the U.S. House.
Activists are tracking and trying to pressure the city over the use of its municipal airport for deportation flights, as visitors from around the world flood in.
The revival of the Dilley detention center and a scorched-earth approach to immigration arrests has led advocates to embrace a novel strategy rooted in old law.
Professionals like me get Texas kids safely to school. We get food to grocery stores and medical supplies to hospitals. Until the government decides to throw us out of work.
Through self-portraiture, a trans Texan photographer steps in front of the camera to document their journey to find home within.
Narratives collected by the federal Works Progress Administration, like the one recounted here, are an invaluable tool for retelling American history.
A monumental blown-glass installation inside a sparkling new library reflects a city—one grappling with an AI boom and an insurgent book-banner—that’s defined by its slippery cultural identity.
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