Our series Texas Excess celebrates the hobbyists and hoarders who crisscross the state—and sometimes the world—to add to their pet collections. With obsessions ranging from Santas to salt shakers, these Texans take collecting to…
Yard Barker – Sherrone Moore’s new contract with Michigan contains notable clause
Michigan announced last week that the school has finally signed head football coach Sherrone Moore to a new contract, and the deal includes one very noteworthy clause. Read: Read More
Yard Barker – Tennessee passing player payments onto fans with absurd ticketing policy
It’s estimated that colleges will be able to spend up to $22 million on athletes, and Tennessee’s squeeze on its fans is meant to ease its financial obligation. Read: Read More
Texas Monthly – The Texanist: Why Does Texas Have So Little Public Land?
The state of Texas is, to put it mildly, one heck of a vast expanse of land. To wit, ours is, by a fairly long shot, the largest of the contiguous United…
Texas Monthly – The Mooncake King and Queen of Dallas
The fifteenth day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar commemorates the end of the fall harvest, with celebrants lighting lanterns and exchanging mooncakes—decorative filled pastries. This year the Mid-Autumn…
Texas Monthly – Why Everyone Wants to Save the Bobwhite Quail
Each month, we get to know one of the state’s many wonderful and quirky critters. Latin Name: Colinus virginianusSize: Six to seven inches tallTexas habitat: Open grasslands, shrublands, and prairies This beloved game bird’s…
Texas Monthly – He Turns Texas Landscapes Into Beautiful Wooden Puzzles
Growing up, J. B. Manning spent many weekends at his family’s deer lease in South Texas or on another parcel of land they owned outside of Georgetown. He’d sit in the blind for…
El Paso Matters – How EPISD will decide which elementary schools to close, consolidate
About half of the El Paso Independent School District’s elementary schools did not meet the scoring criteria to be labeled a “destination school” — a campus that attracts students, teachers and parents…
KTSM News – Tuesday 9-hour forecast: Breezy conditions expect to linger throughout the day
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — It’s going to be a breezy Tuesday in the Sun City as we continue to forecast above 90-degrees. The morning will be mostly cloudy with west winds…
El Paso News Let’s Not Sacrifice the Truth at the Altar of Healing and Unity
It has now been five years since a Trump-inspired white supremacist from a suburb near Dallas drove to an El Paso Walmart and executed what can only be described as the worst…