Houston’s Inflection Point
The Houston City Council hosted its usual public session on Tuesday, a week to the day Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed by an ICE agent in the East End. The council was also commemorating Wo...
Inside the Years-Long Fight to Keep Galveston Wild
In my five years living in Texas, I hadn’t yet been to Galveston. My colleagues and friends have written and spoken about the island in terms of unreality, a place where Texans have ritually flocked...
Watching the Hill Country Waters Rise Again
The Guadalupe escaped its banks again. The National Weather Service declared a flash flood emergency through Thursday afternoon in Kerr County, the epicenter of last year’s unprecedented Fourth of J...