Líderes de Texas ignoraron quejas en Colony Ridge por años

Click here to read this story in English. CONDADO DE LIBERTY — Cuando el vecindario de Colony Ridge fuera de Houston se convirtió en una fijación de los medios de comunicación de derecha el año pasado, los líderes republicanos de Texas pidieron que se actuara rápidamente. Grupos y medios conservadores describieron el desarrollo de 33,000 …

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How Texas ranchers are recovering after Texas wildfires

Subscribe to The Y’all — a weekly dispatch about the people, places and policies defining Texas, produced by Texas Tribune journalists living in communities across the state. PAMPA — On the second day of the Smokehouse Creek fire, Dale Jenkins was looking out his window. He could see the wispy white smoke passing over the …

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Why many 18-year-olds aren’t registered to vote in Texas

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. When David Dzul approached his principal about setting up a voter registration drive on campus in 2019, he quickly realized why voting participation rates are so abysmal among his peers. Texas high schools …

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Official wants firefighting aircrafts after Texas wildfires

Subscribe to The Y’all — a weekly dispatch about the people, places and policies defining Texas, produced by Texas Tribune journalists living in communities across the state. PAMPA — Texas’ top emergency manager told a panel of lawmakers Tuesday that the state should establish its own firefighting aircraft division after a series of wildfires, including …

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Rep. Stan Lambert under fire and outraised in GOP primary

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. ABILENE — First elected to the Texas House in 2016, Rep. Stan Lambert had only ever drawn a single primary challenger before this year. He won by 52 points to little fanfare. But …

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After bruising loss in Houston mayoral race, U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee faces her toughest reelection yet

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Editor’s note: this story includes explicit language. In 1994, Sheila Jackson Lee, then a 44-year-old Houston city councilwoman, unseated four-term U.S. Rep. Craig Washington in the Democratic primary, securing a seat she’d come …

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How Texas polluters classify big facilities as smaller ones to avoid stricter environmental rules and public input

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. This story is published in partnership with Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for the ICN newsletter here. When the Intercontinental Terminals …

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Texas Tribune’s 2023 pictures of the year

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. From the Pecos River valley to the Piney Woods and from the High Plains to the Rio Grande, The Texas Tribune photo department received nearly 18,000 photos from staff and freelance photojournalists chronicling …

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