The State of Texas: March 13, 2014
The state's worst intersections and Rick Perry appears on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
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.
The state's worst intersections and Rick Perry appears on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
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
More than $600,000 stolen from Joel Osteen's megachurch and Texas regulators ordered an energy company to stop accepting Bitcoin.
By Jeff Winkler
Happy birthday, Chuck Norris, and Buc-ee's endorses Dan Patrick.
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Rick Perry gives a rousing speech at CPAC and Lady Gaga set to give keynote speech to little SXSW monsters.
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SXSW descends on Austin and since new restrictions have gone into effect, one-third of the state's abortion clinics have closed.
By Jeff Winkler
Charles Sebesta, the prosecutor in Anthony Graves' case, is under investigation and Austin has the fourth-worst traffic in America.
By Jeff Winkler
The election results are in and RadioShack closes 1,110 stores.
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The primary elections are today.
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Matthew McConaughey takes home an Oscar and Bitcoin opens its second ATM in Austin.
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Video of the DayHey Girl, here’s the answer: Who is the sexiest Texas football coach? That’s right, the Kliff Kingsbury/Ryan Gosling connection was a question on Wednesday’s Jeopardy!Tweet Prank of The DayThat infamous Twitter account recounting comments made by Goldman Sachs employees on elevators was, like our housing
By Jeff Winkler
Judge strikes down gay marriage ban and homelessness is up 60 percent in Tarrant County.
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Nebraska has surpassed Texas in the number of cattle in the state being fattened for slaughter.
By Jeff Winkler
Polls show that Greg Abbott carries an 11-point lead over Wendy Davis and a junior-high student commits to play for LSU.
By Jeff Winkler
Joaquin "El Chapo" (Shorty) Guzman, head of the Sinaloa Cartel, was arrested, and Johnny Football performs well at the NFL combine.
By Jeff Winkler
The state has penalized the first hospital and doctor for violating the new abortion legislation and the state's farming industry grows despite the drought.
By Jeff Winkler
The earthquakes in North Texas might affect the Railroad Commisioner race.
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The building where the massacre at Fort Hood took place has been demolished and the Century Tree in College Station sustains injury.
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More money flows into campaign coffers and Austin remains the nation's number-one fastest growing city.
By Jeff Winkler
Op-Ed of the DayIn case you missed it, WFAA’s sports anchor Dale Hansen delivered an epic on-air op-ed Monday, addressing NFL-ready star and Texas native Michael Sam’s announcement that he’s gay. The meta-journalists at Poyner caught up with Hansen yesterday, who said he figured he’d get a reaction
By Jeff Winkler
TDCJ is in possession of a controversial drug combo used in a lethal injection in Ohio earlier this year.
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
The human-to-animal ratio at this year's Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo was 39:1.
By Jeff Winkler
Abbott comes under fire and UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa announces he will step down from his post.
By Jeff Winkler
Monday PlaylistNeed some tracks as maniac-producing as the weather’s been? The Dallas Observer has you covered with its Top Ten Best Texas Psychedelic Rock Albums.Tweet of the DayAll those photos of Russia’s poor attempts at hospitality (the toilet paper trash can, the yellow drinking water) are
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The YFZ Ranch in Eldorado is officially state property and Chris Christie gets the cold shoulder in Texas.
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How the new farm bill will affect Texas and A&M has a new Manziel.
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Texas leads the nation in exonerations and Greg Abbott proposes a $300 million-plan to secure the state's border.
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Steve Stockman gets called out by his own party and the Postal Service is having trouble keeping up with Houston's housing boom.
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Speaker Straus orders the Lege to look into school cheating scandals and an economist warns an oil slow-down is upon us.
By Jeff Winkler
Texas ranks thirty-seventh in residents's overall financial security and the state has offered a $15 million incentive project to bring SpaceX to our coast.
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The EPA and the state come to an agreement and the number of Monarchs taking their annual migration dropped to their lowest level since 1993.
By Jeff Winkler
The tenth-anniversary of Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" and Wendy Davis's daughters come to her defense.
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The first lieutenant governor's debate and a battle for water with New Mexico.
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The brain-dead pregnant woman was disconnected from life support and the Algebra II requirement is dropped from school curriculums.
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Rick Perry supports decriminalization of marijuana use and record numbers of people are moving to Texas.
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Texas executes a Mexican national and the Keystone XL pipeline started delivering crude to Gulf Coast refineries.
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The Azle earthquakes cause more disruption and the state plans to execute a Mexican national despite protestations from Mexico's government and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
By Jeff Winkler
RIPOn Sunday, country music legend Steve Fromholz went to that Big Songwriters Circle in the Sky. The 68-old died after a gun accidentally discharged during a hunting trip in El Dorado. Named Poet Laureate of Texas in 2007, Fromholz wrote a number of hit songs, including “I’d Have
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Texas emergency medical services not doing too hot and Texas Monthly's February cover features a certain freshman senator.
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Drone testing begins and Plano-based retailer J.C. Penney announced it will close 33 stores.
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A Fort Worth man sues the hospital that's keeping his wife on life-support despite her end-of-life wishes and the smelly, "unpleasant" water in Tarrant County has been declared safe to drink.
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Video of the DayFort Worth learned a valuable lesson recently: You can’t build a neo-modern bridge these days without some BMX dude trying to ride the top of it: Photo of the DayA moody French photographer goes around Texas taking moody pictures of his little Batman doll posed in
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Record-breakersOver the weekend, El Pasoans Robert Hendricks and Hector Navedo broke the world record for number of bowling pins knocked down in a 24-hour period; 30,537 pins to be exact, beating the previous 24-hour record by about 2,000. Congrats, kingpins.Hoax of the Month?Looks like Barnum and Bigfoot’s circus
By Jeff Winkler
Photo of the DayThe earth, as seen by Texas astronauts:If only … pic.twitter.com/mTgCJuIjV9 — Justice Don Willett (@JusticeWillett) January 10, 2014Preview of the DayMr. Primetime, Deion Sanders, has been downsized to the Oprah Winfrey channel. According to the Dallas Observer, the network will premiere the series
By Jeff Winkler
Some crazy stuff went down in the past thirty days. Here are a handful of headlines you may have missed.
By Jeff Winkler
Johnny Manziel is going pro and Craig Biggio denied from the Baseball Hall of Fame.
By Jeff Winkler
UTEP basketball players are under investigation and the Texas Railroad Commission is hiring a seismologist to study the increased number of earthquakes.
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Arguments are heard in the abortion restriction lawsuit and El Paso is the third-best place in America to raise kids.
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UT's new head coach and cattle numbers in Texas are back on the rise.
By Jeff Winkler