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How Willie Nelson Celebrates 4/20
Every day is a great day to be a Willie Nelson fan, but on April 20—a.k.a. 4/20—that fandom reaches new, ahem, highs. On what we might presume is one of the Texas legend’s favorite holidays, Willie...
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Walmart Closures Have Conspiracy Theorists Going Nuts
Walmart is finding out it can’t simply close five stores nationwide for six months out of the blue and not expect the conspiracy theories to roll in. But sure enough, when the superstore giant...
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A Look at the Legislation About LGBT Rights in Texas
If you’ve been following the Eighty-fourth Legislature’s actions, you’ve probably noticed that there’s been a lively debate about LGBT rights in Texas. So lively, in fact, that Equality Texas legal...
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The “Texas of Canada” Just Elected a Super Leftist Leader
Imagine, for a second, that Bernie Sanders is governor of Texas. Imagine that the populist, independent, far-left Senator from Vermont campaigned on (and won because of) his plans for dramatic income...
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The Texas Senate Approved a Bill Deregulating Hair Braiding
The Texas Senate passed a bill yesterday that would ease restrictions on practitioners of traditional African hair braiding. It might surprise you to learn this fight has been going on in Texas for...
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A Tale of Two Cities, a Bullet Train, and the Farmland in Between
A privately funded bullet train like the one that zips passengers between major urban centers in Japan could connect Dallas and Houston—one of the most popular “supercommutes” in the U.S.—as soon as...
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Hood County Residents Try to Ban LGBT Children’s Books From Library
In the weeks leading up to a landmark Supreme Court decision on gay marriage, a much smaller LGBT debate was happening in Hood County. More than fifty residents signed “challenge forms” asking for the...
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Plano’s Texas Pool Seeks Landmark Status. Plus: Other Awesome Texas-Shaped...
Only in Texas you will find a Texas-shaped pool trying to gain state historical landmark status. But that is exactly what a 54-year old eponymous pool in Plano is vying for, because nothing says state...
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The Legal Dispute Over Obama’s Executive Order on Immigration, Explained
Texas is currently at the center of a complex back-and-forth between the federal government and states. Advocates on either side of a legal debate surrounding President Obama’s executive actions on...
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How the GED Became More Difficult, and Why Texans are Trying to Fight It
The GED got a lot harder when it was revamped in January 2014, and experts are questioning what that means for students looking for a high school equivalency certificate. In response to the test’s...
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Ken Paxton’s had a busy month. The state attorney general has made national headlines for everything from his encouragement of county clerks to flout the Supreme Court to felony allegations that could...
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Race and Housing in McKinney: What Is Changing After The Pool Party Incident?
A lot has happened since video from a McKinney pool party rattled America’s conscience over a month ago. But new low-income housing and a Supreme Court decision could mean change is coming to the...
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6 Times Rick Perry Surprised Us All in the 2016 Republican Primary Race
As Texans, we constantly feel the need to explain — and for many of us, apologize for — Rick Perry. The former governor certainly has his way of surprising us, whether that means getting saddled with a...
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The Texas Voter ID Law, Explained
Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law fifty years ago Thursday, and it’s still lauded as a landmark piece of legislation central to the Civil Rights movement. But Wednesday, a day...
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#BeyBeAHERO: Twitter’s Asking Beyoncé to Speak Up for Houston’s HERO
I’m out that H-townComing, coming downI’m coming down dripping candy on the groundH, H-town, town, I’m coming downThe hometown homage in her 2014 hit “***Flawless” proves Beyoncé hasn’t forgotten her...
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Why Are So Many Texas Students Struggling With STAAR?
A report from the Texas Education Agency this month showed nearly 105,000 students in the fifth and eighth grades couldn’t pass the reading portion of the State of Texas Academic Achievement Readiness...
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A Brief History of Black Market Brisket
Last week, what could be the most Texan of crimes took a tragic turn. Randall Lance Hughes, a 48-year-old man suspected of stealing $80 worth of brisket from an H-E-B in Waco, died of a gunshot wound...
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