Will Texas be a Swing State by 2016?
Actress Eva Longoria and and Texas Democratic Party Chair Gilberto Hinojosa predict Texas will be purple in 2016 in an opinion piece at Politico.
A native of Houston and a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, Sonia Smith is a writer-at-large for Texas Monthly. She cut her teeth reporting on crime on the bayou for the Baton Rouge Advocate. She has also written for Slate, The New York Times Magazine, Roads & Kingdoms, and the Kyiv Post, and was a finalist for the 2008 Livingston Awards for Young Journalists for her reporting on sexual abuse at the Louisiana School for the Deaf. Her Texas Monthly profile of leading climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe was included in the anthology The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017.
Actress Eva Longoria and and Texas Democratic Party Chair Gilberto Hinojosa predict Texas will be purple in 2016 in an opinion piece at Politico.
By Sonia Smith
A billboard bearing the civil right leader's image and the words “Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican. VOTE REPUBLICAN!” has cropped up on the boulevard in Dallas that bears his name.
By Sonia Smith
The 42nd president charmed a crowd of 3,000 gathered in South San Antonio High School's gymnasium Thursday afternoon.
By Sonia Smith
The satirical Twitter feed is run by five women, two of whom live in Texas.
By Sonia Smith
Watch a stunning time-lapse video of the Space Shuttle Endeavour's final voyage through the streets of Los Angeles.
By Sonia Smith
A man camping in Shelby County thinks he saw the hairy monster in the Piney Woods.
By Sonia Smith
Big Tex went up in flames Friday.
By Sonia Smith
Twenty five years ago this Tuesday, rescuers hoisted Baby Jessica out of the Midland water well where she had been trapped for more than two days.
By Sonia Smith
Gawker's Adrian Chen reveals that the self-described "creepy uncle of Reddit" is 49-year-old Arlington resident Michael Brutsch.
By Sonia Smith
The FBI arrested eight people in Houston Wednesday and accused them of exporting sophisticated microelectronics to the Russian military and intelligence services.
By Sonia Smith
Last week, video surfaced on YouTube of the 31-year-old Georgetown Law student and freelance journalist, missing in Syria since August 13.
By Sonia Smith
Inside the darkly humorous world of the Lufkin Daily News police blotter.
By Sonia Smith
Austin's city council unanimously passed a resolution supporting marriage equality Thursday morning.
By Sonia Smith
The fight between Nick Lampson and Randy Weber to represent Congressional District 14 could be one of the few competitive races in the state this election cycle.
By Sonia Smith
Earlier this month, zoo officials found Madagascar Bigheaded turtle hatchlings in the zoo's lemur exhibit.
By Sonia Smith
The U.S. Supreme Court, which had stayed Cleve Foster's execution three times in the last year, declined to intervene Tuesday.
By Sonia Smith
The Internet reacts to last week's "chair lynching" in North Austin.
By Sonia Smith
Thousands craned their necks at the sky Thursday to catch of glimpse of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, which made its final trip across Texas perched on the back of a 747.
By Sonia Smith
Mitch McConnell hosted a fundraiser for the Tea Party darling last Thursday, and U.S. Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn attended.
By Sonia Smith
The university received a phone call at 8:35 a.m. warning that explosions would happen in ninety minutes, but an evacuation was only ordered at 9:50 a.m, 15 minutes before the bombs would have gone off.
By Sonia Smith
Fourth graders drew disturbing pictures depict the planes hitting the twin towers and people jumping out of buildings.
By Sonia Smith
To quote Sophia Dembling, "[t]here is no product that can't be improved by making it in the shape of Texas." In that spirit, we bring you five Etsy finds.
By Sonia Smith
Drug gangs track and kidnap many deportees returning to Mexico, hoping that family members who remain in the U.S. will cough up the ransom they demand.
By Sonia Smith
Game wardens say they have caught seven women competing in the Ladies Kingfish tournament in a lie about some sea bass. They plan to pursue felony charges.
By Sonia Smith
Criminal defense attorney Adam Reposa, a graduate of UT law, has a penchant for posting colorful videos on YouTube.
By Sonia Smith
How McAllen turned a vacant Walmart into one of the most architecturally imaginative libraries in the country.
By Sonia Smith
New numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that California added some 142,000 more jobs than Texas in the last twelve months.
By Sonia Smith
Lubbock County Judge Tom Head wants to raise Lubbock County's property taxes by 1.7 cents per $100 in order to pay for more sheriff's deputies to defend the town from the UN troops during potential civil unrest.
By Sonia Smith
Kinky Friedman tells the Dallas Morning News that he is mulling another run for governor.
By Sonia Smith
George P. Bush, nephew of Bush 43 and the grandson of Bush 41, is taking a prominent position in the Republican Party of Texas, a move that cements his status as a future political star.
By Sonia Smith
At three years old, Christopher Salvaggio has an IQ of 145, qualifying him to join the ranks of the high IQ society.
By Sonia Smith
The state election code requires counties that held primary elections to hold runoffs, but Sterling and Oldham counties opted not to.
By Sonia Smith
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is seeking corporate sponsors.
By Sonia Smith
With December 21, 2012 rapidly approaching (only 148 days away!), so-called doomsday "preppers" are on the rise in Texas.
By Sonia Smith
Nine days after two bunnies were stolen from a Galveston Island bunny sanctuary, the rabbits were returned to their home.
By Sonia Smith
The George W. Bush Institute released its first book today, titled "The 4 Percent Solution: Unleashing the Economic Growth America Needs."
By Sonia Smith
A new rule from the General Land Office is set to allow caterers to serve alcohol at events held in Alamo Hall, a building that is not within the 1836 bounds of the fort.
By Sonia Smith
The zoo is seeking a name for its longhorn calf, born in late May.
By Sonia Smith
The North Texas Tollway Authority published a list of more than 26,000 offenders who allegedly owe the system thousands of dollars.
By Sonia Smith
Jasper is still reeling one month after the city's first black police chief was fired by a majority-white city council.
By Sonia Smith
How did a thirty-year-old Mexican man end up dead on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande in Matamoros?
By Sonia Smith
Some 650 Aggies came out to form a human "Maroon Wall" around a College Station church where the funeral of fallen Aggie, Lt. Col. Roy Tisdale, was taking place.
By Sonia Smith
At least two news outlets found Texas angles for the Higgs boson discovery at CERN.
By Sonia Smith
A week after he was mauled by two chimpanzees at a South African sanctuary, Andrew Oberle is hospitalized in stable condition.
By Sonia Smith
Peter Lundgren, Roger Federer's longtime coach, now lives and works in Houston.
By Sonia Smith
Take a virtual tour of the new McAllen Public Library, built inside an abandoned Walmart.
By Sonia Smith
Watch the heartwarming documentary PBS aired a high school mariachi band from the Rio Grande Valley.
By Sonia Smith
Some 31 female trainees have accused twelve instructors of sexual misconduct.
By Sonia Smith
Mexico appears to have elected a dashing new president, Enrique Peña Nieto, heralding a return to rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party.
By Sonia Smith
A number of the critically endangered sea turtles are being monitored by the National Resource Damage Assessment, which is studying how the Deepwater Horizon oil spill impacted the animal is underway on Padre Island.
By Sonia Smith