The Rio Grande, May 2003 Nothing drives comments like discussions of water use in the West, so let's go down that path once more so I can link to this excellent series from the El Paso Times on water use in the Upper Rio Grande...
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Rick Perry is a very nice man: Despite a significant rise in income inequality in Texas, Gov. Rick Perry (R) is arguing that it's not something the state ought to.
The Bush family legacy is still very much evolving. Denton, Texas, a town I know very well because my brother lived there for 10 years, has developed into something of.
OK, no one would really say that Houston is an urban utopia. But this op-ed in the Houston Chronicle actually does make some good points, even if it can be read as a defense of low-density, auto-intensive sprawl that many of us, myself included, reject....
Excellent Dallas Morning News expose on dangerous work in the Texas construction industry. More workers die here than in any other state. On average, a Texas worker is 12 percent.
Like the absurdly low OSHA violation fines that give employers no incentive to fix safety problems on the job, the low fines for corporate polluters are just a drop in.
The Texas Republic was really terrible at war. But the idea of Texas being born from military achievement is variously true and also blown out of all proportion to reality. With the exception of the coup at San Jacinto, Texas’s early military history was a...
Republican abortion policy is working out just fine in Texas. Close all the reproductive clinics that serve poor people because those sluts deserve whatever they get for having sex while.
Texas Attorney General and likely next governor, Greg Abbott: Greg Abbott unveiled his latest policy proposal in Dallas yesterday, a border security proposal that Abbott called his "Securing Texans Plan.".
The Republican War on Women, Texas Edition, is having the precise effects Rick Perry and the gang hoped: In the Rio Grande Valley, Whole Woman’s Health CEO Amy Hagstrom Miller told msnbc, doctors are struggling to care for women who have complications from self-induced abortions....
Look, I can't see why everyone is after Steve Stockman just because his campaign headquarters was an overcrowded sweatshop where volunteers lived and worked without safety precautions and was declared.
The Dallas Morning News, which has been outstanding on covering the West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion and its aftermath, has a strongly damning report on the response to the disaster.