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To Permit an Oil Field Waste Dump, Texas Regulators Ignored Their Own Experts
When I drove up to the two-room offices of Paxton Water Supply, in a strip mall next to a car wash about a mile from a bridge that crosses the Sabine River into Louisiana, I was expecting to meet the ...

Brothers bringing Jerusalem Cafe, Chick-In Waffle, sober bar mashup to Power & Light
The Kansas City Power & Light District is getting a new flagship venue that will combine two popular local restaurant brands and a new mocktail bar/coffee shop concept. Brothers and second-generation ...

The Man Whose Discovery Changed What We Know About Human History
The sky was spring blue and the air mercifully dry on the day I visited the Gault School of Archaeological Research, about fifty miles north of Austin. Filmmaker Olive Talley spread out a cloth near B...

Austin Metcalf’s Killing Prompted Racist Vitriol Online—Then the Internet Came to Frisco
As three masked young men Sieg heil–ed across the street, Jake Lang spoke softly into a cellphone, listing off Black crime stats to a grieving father he hoped to recruit to his cause. On the other s...