Granbury residents say a noisy Bitcoin mine keeps them up at night. Now a plan to expand the power plant that fuels the mine is drawing opposition over pollution concerns. Read: Read…
El Paso Matters – Socorro ISD students are at top of charts in 2024 STAAR/EOC results
Results from the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness and End-of-Course (STAAR/EOC) tests, which were administered in spring 2024 show that students in the Socorro Independent School District are at the…
Texas Monthly – Odessa’s mayor ran to help the West Texas city “repent.” Now he wants a second term.
Under Javier Joven’s leadership, his critics say, the Odessa City Council has lost focus on municipal issues like roads and water infrastructure. Read: Read More
El Chuqueño Blog – Gentrification and Income Inequality in Oaxaca
The benefits of “economic development” are unequally distributed. Sound familiar? Here’s a story bout that theme, and censorship, and tourism in Oaxaca. It could happen here. Hell, it’s already happening here. Are…
Texas Monthly – Some Texas Democrats in 2024 Are Running on the Republican Immigration Policy of 2018
Beto O’Rourke spent Father’s Day six years ago in Tornillo, a tiny settlement about an hour southeast of El Paso. The federal government had set up a tent camp for migrant children…
Yard Barker – Colorado State WR uses controversial language to turn up heat on Colorado rivalry
Monday will be the one-year anniversary of Colorado’s high-intensity 43-35 victory against Colorado State during the 2023 season. On Saturday, the in-state rivals will face each other for the first time since…
Texas Monthly – The Texanist: The Rio Grande Valley Isn’t Actually a Valley, Is It?
Q: Two friends at my weekly 42 dominoes game are from the Rio Grande Valley. When I asked them why Texans call a flat floodplain a “valley,”when a valley is actually the…
Texas Monthly – How Goldee’s Barbecue Trained Some of the Best New Pitmasters in Texas
This week, two Texas barbecue joints have received serious accolades from national magazines. Barbs B Q, in Lockhart, was named one of Bon Appétit’s best new restaurants, and Jalen Heard, Lane Milne,…
Yard Barker – Return of the Pac: Pac-12 building back up with MWC additions
The Pac-12 isn’t going down without a fight. Read: Read More
Texas Monthly – The “Return” of Miranda Lambert
Miranda Lambert grinned as she stood on the smallest stage she’s played in years. She’d just debuted an irreverent, rowdy hook—“Are we in love, or are we just drunk?” from “Bitch on…