To Stem a Rising Tide of Fentanyl Overdoses, These Texas Paramedics Are Going Door-to-door
Many with opioid-use disorders OD again and again. First responders are reaching out to offer a path to recovery.
Jeff Winkler's work has appeared in the New Republic, Vice magazine, Playboy, The Daily Caller, The Awl, the Oxford American, and elsewhere. He has covered gun-toting carpetbaggers, attempted an alcohol enema, and ridden in the country's largest chuckwagon race. He is a college dropout living in Austin.
Many with opioid-use disorders OD again and again. First responders are reaching out to offer a path to recovery.
By Jeff Winkler
Texas nonprofits are defying state law to distribute harm-reduction tools like fentanyl test strips amid an opioid-overdose epidemic.
By Jeff Winkler
Ted Cruz gets a Texas win, and the trouble with Fair Park.
By Jeff Winkler
Judgment Day for Republican hopefuls, an ”abortion travel agent,” and another Texas-EPA lawsuit.
By Jeff Winkler
Texas prepares for Super Tuesday, student life just got rougher, and the Taco War continues.
By Jeff Winkler
The Houston presidential candidate shootout, more conspiratorial Scalia details, and the great breakfast taco war of 2016.
By Jeff Winkler
Rick Perry’s legal troubles end, and the city of Dallas’s just begin.
By Jeff Winkler
Some crazy stuff went down in Texas in the past thirty days. Here are some of the headlines you may have missed.
By Jeff Winkler
CEO of the sex expo files lawsuit against Dallas, the border made safe, and the affluenza judge gets the tabloid treatment.
By Jeff Winkler
Cruz is fighting Rubio, sex lovers are fighting Dallas, and McAllen is fighting Hidalgo.
By Jeff Winkler
More problems for Crystal City, the latest in Texas’s water fight, and a presidential endorsement.
By Jeff Winkler
The Racing Commission blocks historical racing, Texas is a hate state, and a controversial state health researcher resigns.
By Jeff Winkler
Crystal City just keeps getting more embarrassing, and UT finally issues guidelines on campus carry.
By Jeff Winkler
Sign gets hacked in best way possible, major event bans open carry, and another development in the trial of Chris Kyle's killer.
By Jeff Winkler
The Texas details of Justice Scalia’s death, and a look at a less Affluenza-prone teen convict.
By Jeff Winkler
Valentine’s Day is almost here, and we've found the perfect opportunity to end things with a little bom bom.
By Jeff Winkler
A commission pulls the teeth out of bite mark evidence, and Crystal City starts the reform process.
By Jeff Winkler
Paxton faces yet another legal issue, presidential politics comes to Texas, Dallas prepares for lawsuit after banning porn expo.
By Jeff Winkler
Historic betting survives another day, modern-day slavery, and another wild student art project.
By Jeff Winkler
Judge strikes down effort to block refugees, disbarment of Anthony Grave’s prosecutor upheld, and the Dallas porn fight.
By Jeff Winkler
Tragic shootings, the latest on the affluenza teen, and the repeal of sex offender ordinances.
By Jeff Winkler
Top official of Crystal City arrested, and national politics starts revving up in Texas.
By Jeff Winkler
A terrible rally was cancelled, and the abortion battles continue.
By Jeff Winkler
Texas small business shrinks, no David Bowie Street arrests, and construction begins on the world’s largest cross.
By Jeff Winkler
Cruz takes Iowa, Texas Dems and GOP agree on something, and Paxton asked to keep donations to his legal defense in state.
By Jeff Winkler
Baylor’s alleged troubles with ignoring sexual assault victims continue, Manziel gets a helicopter search, and a reignited battle over cheerleading and God.
By Jeff Winkler
The Ethan Couch saga continues on Texas soil, and officials brace for Zika virus.
By Jeff Winkler
Bipartisan anger over driving fees, the Planned Parenthood legal arguments, and anticipating the politics of the Pope's visit.
By Jeff Winkler
Some crazy stuff went down in Texas in the past thirty days. Here are some of the headlines you may have missed.
By Jeff Winkler
Troubles not over for Planned Parenthood, Georgetown bickers over antebellum dance, and the push to keep Syrians out continues.
By Jeff Winkler
Charges for the Planned Parenthood videographers, more Dixie Chicks fightin' words, and the poor condition of the state’s fertilizer plants.
By Jeff Winkler
The never-ending Paxton saga, rural power fights, and the school that suspended its brave student
By Jeff Winkler
Another lawsuit in the SXSW crash, lunch ladies punished, and the snake issue that keep on rattling.
By Jeff Winkler
A Houston madam finally goes to jail, revisiting the Waco shooting (again), and Big Bend could get even bigger.
By Jeff Winkler
Car Talk WednesdayWant to have a bigger truck than everyone else around you? Are you channeling the Terminator while changing lanes? Do we have a truck for you! A 1977 Mercedes-Benz Unimog, previously owned (and autographed, apparently) by Arnold Schwarzenegger, is being sold by a Texas dealer for a measly $350,000.https://twitter.com/CapaMagENG/status/689534066815668224Texas by the NumbersWinded
By Jeff Winkler
The Lottery Commission didn’t keep its word, the new birther issue, and the state’s med school boom.
By Jeff Winkler
A weird, confusing turn in the Paxton case, a new effort to stop sex trafficking, and Christian ethics in the classroom.
By Jeff Winkler
The El Chapo effect on the border, a thwarted terrorist attack, and a loophole for dirty talk.
By Jeff Winkler
Rick Perry gets a new gig, the border has problems and prayers, and the latest in the Waco biker case.
By Jeff Winkler
Blue Bell says there’s no reason to panic, a border reporter criticizes Sean Penn article, and the latest on the Affluenza case.
By Jeff Winkler
Abbott calls for a constitutional convention to fight back against Obama, listeria found at Blue Bell production plant, and more Affluenza details.
By Jeff Winkler
Refugee terrorist arrested in Houston, Texans do stand-offs right, and several angry judges
By Jeff Winkler
State trooper indicted in Sandra Bland case, the Bandidos president is arrested on federal charges, and someone is messin' with the state fair.
By Jeff Winkler
Texas politicians respond to Obama’s gun campaign, and Aggieland loses another sports bigwig.
By Jeff Winkler
Trans-Pecos Pipeline could run through Big Bend, and Williamson County is having some antebellum issues.
By Jeff Winkler
A quiet beginning to open carry, Ethan Couch’s wild holiday, and the dairy cow disaster.
By Jeff Winkler
Some crazy stuff went down in Texas in the past thirty days. Here are some of the headlines you may have missed.
By Jeff Winkler
Greg Abbott shuts down a winter solstice display in the Capitol, Planned Parenthood loses funding, and no charges in Bland case.
By Jeff Winkler
The state is still trying to figure out the whole open carry thing, and Bernie Tiede gets a megastar fundraiser.
By Jeff Winkler
SMU opts out of campus carry, Blue Bell looks toward the future, and San Antonio's great pizza swindling.
By Jeff Winkler