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Why Houston’s Urbanist Movement Is Doomed
Dec 2, 2024 · Northside is among the oldest Latino neighborhoods in Houston, but it hardly receives the same scholarly attention as its elder Second Ward (aka East End, or, if you ask today’s neighborhood ...
Texas Uranium Mining Portends Nuclear Revival
Dec 5, 2024 · Industry describes in-situ mining as safer and more environmentally friendly than surface mining. But some South Texas water managers and landowners are concerned.
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Jan 13, 2025 · Trump’s Texas Tycoons . Meet the Lone Star megadonors, think tankers, and politicians poised to play big roles in Trump’s comeback tour.
How Texas Jails Built Migrant Incarceration
Nov 19, 2024 · Border and Immigration. How Texas Jails Built Migrant Incarceration. Following a 1925 investigation, immigrant detention in the Galveston County Jail was declared “a crime against humanity.”
Freeport LNG Export Terminal Reopens After Massive Explosion
Feb 23, 2023 · Environment. Natural Gas Terminal Reopens After Massive Explosion. Regulators say the company fixed flaws at Freeport LNG which led compressed methane to burst from a pipe and catch fire.
How Texas Diminished a Once-Rigorous Air Pollution Monitoring …
Oct 8, 2024 · Twenty years ago, a robust mobile monitoring team used to make regular visits to Texas’ biggest industrial hubs. According to logs obtained via records request, the team completed 36 monitoring ...
In the Rio Grande Valley, the Red Wave Makes Landfall
Nov 6, 2024 · Four long years ago, much ado was made about the inroads made by then-President Donald Trump in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, the four-county region of 1.4 million mostly Hispanic residents at the ...
'There Have to Be Limits': Lawsuit Urges Scorching Prisons to Cool …
Apr 22, 2024 · News ‘There Have to Be Limits’: Lawsuit Urges Scorching Prisons to Cool Down. New plaintiffs have expanded a 2023 lawsuit against TDCJ, accusing the agency of “cooking [prisoners] to death."