Texas Needs More Homegrown Doctors
Texas med schools stump against a proposal to accept students from the Caribbean into clinical rotations in the state.
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.
Texas med schools stump against a proposal to accept students from the Caribbean into clinical rotations in the state.
By Sonia Smith
Political junkies sad the legislature is in an off year can dig their teeth into two new documentaries about Texas politicians premiering this month.
By Sonia Smith
Did your invitation to Matthew McConaughey's wedding get lost in the mail? Here's what you missed.
By Sonia Smith
The audience, which had loudly applauded most of Governor Perry's speech, started booing when he reiterated his support for Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst.
By Sonia Smith
Readings from the spacecraft indicate it may have left the solar system some 34 years after it launched.
By Sonia Smith
The GOP nominee is expected to raise $15 million on fundraising stops in Texas's four largest cities this week.
By Sonia Smith
Haggar, who ran Haggar Clothing Co. for 25 years, famously took a presidential pants order from LBJ.
By Sonia Smith
Exxon Mobil announced plans to expand its hulking Baytown petrochemical plant and refinery Thursday.
By Sonia Smith
One Abilene chicken had a rough week.
By Sonia Smith
Our favorite recent items from the Lufkin Daily News's police blotter.
By Sonia Smith
Upsets! Runoffs! Drama! The U.S. Senate race wasn't the only contest worth watching Tuesday night.
By Sonia Smith and Andrea Valdez
The candidate clinched his party's nomination Tuesday after scooping up 71 percent of the vote in the Texas Republican primary.
By Sonia Smith
Curious about the reading habits of San Antonio Express-News's Kyrie O'Connor? Read on.
By Sonia Smith
The Atlantic checks in on how GBTV, Glenn Beck's Irving-based Web TV venture, is faring as the fledging network nears its one-year anniversary.
By Sonia Smith
Would Beef Products Inc, which will be shuttering its Amarillo plant Friday, have faced the same public outcry if its product was called "pink goo"?
By Sonia Smith
The unfortunate typo on the commencement programs for the LBJ School of Public Affairs was discussed on The View Tuesday.
By Sonia Smith
Juárez needs another municipal cemetery to handle the glut of murders connected to drug violence.
By Sonia Smith
After the driest year on record, state policymakers and scientists convened at the Texas Water Summit to address the state's water supply problem.
By Sonia Smith
State representative Mike "Tuffy" Hamilton has accused his primary opponent, James White, of making inappropriate sexual remarks to his students when he was a teacher in Livingston ISD.
By Sonia Smith
A new poll shows that the Republican primary for the open U.S. Senate seat won't be ending any time soon.
By Sonia Smith
Mike Barnett, director of publications for the Texas Farm Bureau, penned a blog post celebrating Domino's decision to continue sourcing pork from farms that use controversial gestation crates.
By Sonia Smith
Several Republican primary battles in Texas seem to be about burnishing conservative bonafides, and few races better demonstrate this effort than the contest between James White and Mike "Tuffy" Hamilton.
By Sonia Smith
John Ramsey, a 21-year-old Stephen F. Austin State University student, has poured some $890,000 of his own money into a his super PAC, which supports "libertarian-infused conservatism."
By Sonia Smith
Turbulence from the United-Continental merger bothered consumers in March, the month Continental flew its final flight.
By Sonia Smith
In court filings, female lawyers representing former hand doctor Michael Brown have accused opposing counsel of making misogynistic statements to them.
By Sonia Smith
Texas cleaned up on Forbes' "Best Cities for Jobs" lists this year.
By Sonia Smith
Politicians in West Virgina are embarrassed that Keith Judd, a federal inmate incarcerated in Texarkana, made the Democratic primary ballot.
By Sonia Smith
Gloria Allred is representing Sarah Tressler, a former society reporter for the paper, in her discrimination complaint.
By Sonia Smith
The feds will get a portion of the future profits of Mary, Mother of Christ, a film co-written by the man behind Passion of the Christ and produced by Joel Osteen.
By Sonia Smith
The bankrupt carrier has realized its AAirpasses, which allow ticket holders unlimited first-class flights, are costing the company millions of dollars in lost revenue.
By Sonia Smith
A new study tracking the habits and health of Texas drivers found that those with longer commute times have bigger waistlines.
By Sonia Smith
A letter written by Davy Crockett six months before his death at the Alamo is up for auction and bids have climbed to $27,121.
By Sonia Smith
A Democrat has not won statewide office in Texas since 1994, prompting wealthy Texas Democrats to send their political donations to fund out-of-state races.
By Sonia Smith
Only nineteen cheerleaders were picked for Colleyville Heritage High School's squads this year, down from sixty in previous years.
By Sonia Smith
In which the TM Daily Post is accused of fixating on Lufkin and overlooking the weirdness of the Wise County Messenger's police blotter.
By Sonia Smith
Texas can now exclude Planned Parenthood from its Women's Health Program, after an appeals court judge reversed a lower court's injunction.
By Sonia Smith
In the last ten years, DNA has exonerated 32 men from Dallas County.
By Sonia Smith
Our favorite recent items from the Lufkin Daily News' police blotter.
By Sonia Smith
Beunka Adams, who was pronounced dead on Thursday night at 6:25 p.m., participated in a deadly convenience store robbery in 2002.
By Sonia Smith
The convicted polygamist leader tells that Texas Court of Criminal Appeals that, unless he is freed, God will send down "full whirlwind judgements" on the nation.
By Sonia Smith
Only six states are considered less peaceful than Texas, according to a new report from the Institute for Economics and Peace.
By Sonia Smith
The Dallas-based billionaire is investing in Planetary Resources, a company that aims to begin mining asteroids for valuable metals by 2020.
By Sonia Smith
A recent study found that suburbs appear to be losing their luster to Houstonians, who expressed a preference for a more urban livestyle.
By Sonia Smith
The former Texas Board of Education chair talks creationism, textbooks, and whether man and dinosaurs lived contemporaneously on The Colbert Report.
By Sonia Smith
The Revisionaries, a new documentary about the State Board of Education, received rave reviews after its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.
By Sonia Smith
Karl Rove's Super PAC netted $30.5 million—more than half of its total donations—from three Texan titans.
By Sonia Smith
The Bureau of Land Management is conducting an environmental study on Madeleine Pickens's plan to build a Nevada ecotourism sanctuary where thousands of the nation's wild mustangs could roam.
By Sonia Smith
If Verna McClain is found guilty, she will join the ranks of three other killer nurses from Texas.
By Sonia Smith
The Daily Caller cites an anonymous source who claims the Louisiana governor encouraged Perry to oust his long-time advisor.
By Sonia Smith
Celebrity gossip mags would pay up to $500,000 for pictures of Blue Ivy and Jessica Simpson's spawn.
By Sonia Smith