WHO: Miranda Lambert, Parker McCollum, and the iconic George Strait. WHAT: A tribute to this year’s Country Music Association’s Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award winner, performed by two stars from the current generation. WHY…
Texas Monthly – Ken Paxton adds Dallas to list of cities he’s sued over marijuana decriminalization
Dallas is the sixth Texas city the attorney general has sued this year over marijuana decriminalization measures that he says conflicts with state law. Read: Read More
KTSM News – Suspicious package investigated at National Guard facility
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The bomb squad is investigating a suspicious package at the National Guard facility in Northeast El Paso, according to the El Paso Police Department. The initial report…
Border Report – A comprehensive map of how Texans voted in the 2024 presidential election
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Former President Donald Trump is heading back to the White House after defeating Vice President Kamala Harris in the Nov. 5 presidential election. In Texas, Trump received more than 6.3 million…
KTSM News – Gaetz withdraws from attorney general consideration
Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) on Thursday said he was withdrawing from consideration as President-elect Trump’s nomination to be attorney general. Gaetz announced the decision in a message on X, saying that…
Texas Monthly – Why a West Texas county is building a new courthouse even after voters rejected the proposal
Officials took the extraordinary step of taking on new debt to replace the old courthouse, which has been plagued by rats and other pests, elevator breakdowns and flooding. Read: Read More
The Border Chronicle – No Borders as a Practical Political Project: A Podcast with Nandita Sharma
Subscribe now Protesters in London in May in support of refugees. (Photo by Martin Pope/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images). Share As the late Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano put it in his book…
El Paso Matters – Who decided El Paso’s 2024 elections, in 4 charts
The voters who decided elections in El Paso County this year were similar to the electorate in 2020, just fewer of them. According to official voting results, 254,677 El Paso County residents…
Texas Monthly – ‘I Am Ready, Warden’ Is a Gripping Examination of Vengeance and Redemption on—and Off—Texas’s Death Row
Smriti Mundhra had no desire to make an anti–death penalty film when she began looking into the story of John Henry Ramirez, a convicted murderer on Texas’s death row. Mundhra, a Los…
Texas Monthly – Why This Texas Flower Attracts More Butterflies Than Almost Any Other
John Hart Asher was feeling low one day in early November, until he stepped outside into a commotion of busy wings. Dozens of butterflies—mostly queens and monarchs but also sulphurs, eastern commas,…