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Conflicts and InterestsJohn Carona is a state senator from Dallas who chairs the Business and Commerce Committee. He’s also the CEO of the country’s largest homeowners’ association management company. And the word “recusal” isn’t in his vocabulary. By Jay Root
The List: The Top 50 Barbecue JointsBy Texas Monthly Staff
The Wise Men, Part IIBy Brian D. Sweany
The Gene Powell Interview: Part OneBy Jake Silverstein
The Smile MachineBy Ross Dubois
burkablog
Elements of the Budget Deal
By Paul Burka
May 18, 2013
Music
The Cliburn Competition Forges Ahead Without Its Namesake

Can the famous piano competition survive without Van Cliburn?

By Christopher Kelly
May 20, 2013
BBQ
Responding to your Barbecusations

Answers to your questions about our Top 50 Barbecue Joints list, including why Smitty's didn't make the list. 

By Daniel Vaughn
May 17, 2013
The Policy and Politics of Drug Sentencing

A Republican judge from Harris County, with the support of the conservative TPPF and the left-leaning TCJC, is working with Democratic lawmakers to reduce the sentences for defendants arrested with trace amounts of illegal drugs. But it takes more than bipartisanship to change people's views on the state's drug laws.

By William Martin
May 6, 2013
I don’t know what it’s like to be the victim of a terror attack, but as of this weekend I know what it’s like to think you’re the victim of a terror attack.
Stephen Harrigan
The Brief and Frightening Lockdown of the Bush Library
Music
2013's Spring Album Preview

Six albums to pick up before the summer touring season begins.

By Andy Langer
May 14, 2013
Texana
Discovering LBJ’s Austin

The city held a special place in Lyndon Baines Johnson’s heart, and a number of the places significant in his life there are still around.

By Madelyn Herzog
May 6, 2013
Lead
Paranoia Is the New Stupid

Acting like a rube used to be the best way to get ahead in politics. Now something crazier is required.

By Michael Ennis
May 2013
Politics
The Old Stupid

Sorry, but it's not Ted Cruz who's paranoid. It's his critics.

By John Daniel Davidson
May 9, 2013
Loaded
3D-Printed Plastic Guns: Now Firing

The Austin-based non-profit Defense Distributed has successfully created and tested the "Liberator," the first gun made entirely from 3-D printed plastic pieces. Government officials are already hoping to limit its legality.

By Ross Dubois
May 6, 2013
#TXLEGE
The Tea Party Influence

Up with the "Merry Christmas" bill, down with the Medicaid rider.

By Erica Grieder
May 20, 2013
Business
Texas Business Report: Texas May "Dominate the Drone Economy"

Texas is likely to become a top state for unmanned drone aircraft production in the next two decades, according to a new analysis by Fortune.

By Rob Heidrick
May 19, 2013
Stand-Up Desk
Playing with Barbecue Sauce

Creating an edible logo.

By Jake Silverstein
May 14, 2013
burkablog
The Non-session Session

When the curtain went up on the 83rd Legislature, I thought the state was poised to have one of the best sessions ever. Then everything fell apart. 

By Paul Burka
May 13, 2013
The Drop Everything List
Six Must-Attend Events: May 17-22
By Michael Hoinski
May 17, 2013
Public Education
Flexibility, Rigor, But Not Necessarily Algebra II

On Monday the Senate passed HB-5, which slashes the number of mandatory tests in Texas high schools, proposes a new way to rate districts, and restructures the high school diploma plans.

By Erica Grieder
May 7, 2013
burkablog
Remember the School Finance Case?

In February, Judge John Dietz ruled that the state's current school finance system was unconstitutional. However, the legislature's restoration of some of last session's deep cuts to schools during the 83rd legislative session could be a game changer for the lawsuit.

By Paul Burka
May 6, 2013
Business
Predicting the Next Financial Collapse

J. Kyle Bass, a Dallas-based investor, forecasted the mortgage bubble and the European collapse. But what happens if his third prediction comes true?

By Paul McDonnold
May 7, 2013
Education
Hispanics Now Majority In Texas Schools, Politicians Take Note

Hispanics now comprise nearly 51 percent of the state's student body.

By Ross Dubois
May 7, 2013
CONGRESS
Mr. O’Rourke Goes to Washington

In an interview with Texas Monthly in Washington last week, the freshman congressman from El Paso weighed in on border security, U.S.-Mexico trade, and immigration reform.

By Sonia Smith
April 30, 2013
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Big Night at the National Magazine Awards

Executive editors Pamela Colloff and Mimi Swartz win two of our industry's top prizes.

By Jake Silverstein
May 3, 2013
National Magazine Award Winner
The Innocent Man, Part One

The National Magazine Award–winning story about Michael Morton, a man who came home from work one day in 1986 to find that his wife had been brutally murdered. What happened next was one of the most profound miscarriages of justice in Texas history.

By Pamela Colloff
November 2012
National Magazine Award Winner
The Innocent Man, Part Two

Michael Morton spent 25 years wrongfully imprisoned for the brutal murder of his wife. How did it happen? And who is to blame?

By Pamela Colloff
December 2012
National Magazine Award Winner
Mothers, Sisters, Daughters, Wives

Read this National Magazine Award-winning story about how the Legislature slashed funding for women’s health programs in 2011 and launched an all-out war on Planned Parenthood that has dramatically changed the state’s priorities. A year later, the battle is still raging, and the stakes could not be higher.

By Mimi Swartz
August 2012
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