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Baylor Basketball Is Having A Moment
The Bears and Lady Bears are each ranked number two in the nation.
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The State of Texas: The Bathroom Bill Is Here
Plus: Trump’s border wall takes shape, Texas schools get graded, and Ted Cruz may have some new challengers seeking his Senate spot.
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Keeping Up With the Joneses
The Dallas Cowboys’ new headquarters and training facility, dubbed the Star, is open for business.
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Patrick Bathroom Plan Could Void Local Protections
So-called bathroom bill could undermine cities’ non-discrimination ordinances.
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Patrick Unveils the Long-Awaited Bathroom Bill
At a press conference, the lieutenant governor reveals some details of bill aimed at limiting transgender access to restrooms.
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The State of Texas: Perry And Tillerson Court Lawmakers Ahead Of Cabinet Confirmation Hearings
Plus: A judge delays his decision in the fetal burial rule case, a high school gets tagged with racist graffiti, and the town formerly known as Bikinis goes up for sale.
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The McKinney Pool Party Incident Sparks Another Lawsuit
The young woman who was slammed to the ground by officer Eric Casebolt has filed a lawsuit against the officer, the police department, and the city.
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The Prisoner
Edwin Debrow committed murder at age 12. Now 37, he remains behind bars. When should a child criminal be given a second chance?
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Chicken and Dumplings
Thickened soup for the post-election soul.
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Senator Whitmire’s Pension Provocations
When is advice a conflict of interest?
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Dak Prescott Is Clearly The NFL’s Most Valuable Player
How is this even a question?
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The State of Texas: Judge Hears Arguments In Fetal Burial Rule Case
Plus: Trump meets with a top executive from Lockheed Martin, Texas kicks off 2017 by filing yet another lawsuit against the feds, and a teenage girl slammed by a cop at a McKinney pool party sues for $5 million.
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George and Laura Bush, Plus the Clintons, to Attend Trump’s Inauguration
Politics aside, inaugurals are a time to show our nation can peaceably transfer power from one administration to the next.
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Terrence Malick’s Austin Music Movie Is Finally Actually Happening
The reclusive Texas filmmaker’s long-simmering saga of love and betrayal in the Austin music world premieres on March 17.
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Houston’s New Police Chief, Art Acevedo, Has Plans For the Department
Acevedo has set his sights on two priorities for the Houston Police Department: body cameras and investigating officer involved shootings.
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A Food Tour of Southeastern Oklahoma
These are the best foodie finds in Choctaw Country, Oklahoma
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The State of Texas: Texas Judge Temporarily Blocks Federal Transgender Protections
A State Representative gets struck by a stray celebratory bullet on New Year’s Eve, the Twin Peaks shootout bikers finally have a trial date, and Houston has a sewer overflow problem.
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Where Everybody Knows Your Name
In the age of gastropubs and microbreweries, Texas still boasts a few real dive bars—where the jukebox is irreplaceable, the beer is domestic, and the patrons feel like family—if you know where to look.
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Politics
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She’s the Sheriff
How Zena Stephens became the highest-ranking law enforcement officer in Jefferson County.
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This Year in Abortion Access in Texas
Much has happened this year—and there may be more to come.
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Greg Abbott Picked a Twitter Fight With “Faithless Elector” Chris Suprun
Is unsolicited Twitter beef with constituents something we should expect from our politicians going forward?
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Examining Rick Perry’s and Rex Tillerson’s Potential Conflicts of Interest
A few things to know about Donald Trump’s picks for Energy secretary and Secretary of State.
Food
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Chicken and Dumplings
Thickened soup for the post-election soul.
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On Tapa His Game
At the Bin, chef Jason Dady reveals his long-running love affair with Spain’s small dishes.
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Infinite Loop
From the Midnight Rambler, in Dallas.
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Why, That Son of a Steak!
A tale of cloned meat.
Travel
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Rock Around the Clock
Ten concerts to ring in your new year.
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15 Highlights From My 2016 Texas Wanderings
The best sights, bites, and experiences from my travels around the state this year.
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These Boots Are Made for Gawkin’
Bob “Daddy-O” Wade has been putting out his iconic artwork for forty years.
Current Issue
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The Prisoner
Edwin Debrow committed murder at age 12. Now 37, he remains behind bars. When should a child criminal be given a second chance?
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Blood and Sugar
Can one very determined man get a booming Houston suburb to confront its troubled past?
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She’s the Sheriff
How Zena Stephens became the highest-ranking law enforcement officer in Jefferson County.
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The Earth Below
The skies of West Texas are so grand that it’s easy to forget how much is going on under our feet.
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Bum Steer Awards 2017
It was a year of amateurish attorneys, buck-naked burglars, credulous coal-walkers, doughnut detractors, empty-headed educators, fund-raising fabulists, grumbling graduates, hacked highway signs, ill-timed imitators, judgment-justifying Jerry Joneses, kavalier Katrinas, lime-laden locoweed, misguided mattress merchants, naive notes, outré outfits, pitmaster poseurs, questionable quarterbacks, reactive racists, slipshod spellers, taco tiffs, unwise users, vibrator vandals, would-be wrestlers, xcrement-led xpulsions,
yakking yahoos, and zero zeniths.
Longform
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The Prisoner
Edwin Debrow committed murder at age 12. Now 37, he remains behind bars. When should a child criminal be given a second chance?
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Blood and Sugar
Can one very determined man get a booming Houston suburb to confront its troubled past?
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Lost and Found
They have fled war-torn countries, given up livelihoods, and left behind possessions and family for the safety of a foreign world of cowboy hats and Walmarts. But the refugees who land in Amarillo’s Astoria Park have an ally who understands their confusion and loss: a 64-year-old former teacher named Miss Evelyn.
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Crossed Stitches
Beverly Pennington was a Pinterest-perfect entrepreneur whose patchwork quilts—made from people’s most treasured T-shirts—found thousands of devotees all over the country. But when the quilts stopped coming, leaving the shirts in limbo, her customers pieced together a plan to fight back.