I started with a Houston Chronicle story about Tesla considering a $10.1 billion solar manufacturing plant in Fort Bend County. The story told us about the investment. It told us
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Massachusetts is a high-immigrant state controlled by Democrats. Republicans have spent years warning Americans that immigrants are bringing crime. So, naturally, I decided to follow the numbers. We divided the
Alex Mealer’s Platform Has One Big Problem: Reality Alexandra Mealer is not hiding what she wants to be. Her campaign website calls the newly drawn Texas 9th Congressional District the
Every election season, political campaigns repeat the ritual. Volunteers gather at headquarters, get voter lists, and head into neighborhoods to knock on doors. It feels productive. It is personal. And
Help Us — or Stop Taking Our Money Washington wants the states to handle more disasters. Our investigation found states borrowing money, draining reserves, and even preparing to replace FEMA
Look at the babies in the illustration. They are in diapers because some children caught in America’s immigration detention system really are that young. The two guards arguing over who
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has spent much of his political career surrounded by the language of God, marriage, and conservative family values. Now those words are following him into
A new Texas Tribune story from San Antonio describes something that is becoming increasingly important across Texas: immigrants are changing the way they live because they fear that an ordinary
Gov. Greg Abbott says “Texans must come first.” I hope he means it. I don’t think he does. Texas is in the middle of an enormous data-center boom. The projects
I have known Orlando Sanchez for more than 20 years. He is a nice guy. I have nothing personal against him. But nice is not enough. We already have a
Who Told ICE Where the Witness Was? The most troubling question in the case of ICE arresting a Houston crime witness is the simplest one: How did ICE know where
We don’t have to look far to find what REAL MEN DO. A real man would have done what George W. Bush did on September 11. Bush was told Washington
Sam Altman has an interesting theory about American workers. Artificial intelligence may make people enormously more productive, he says, but don’t expect everyone to use that productivity to work fewer
A senior Republican congressional staffer says conservative organizations spent years choosing ideological loyalty over competence. Now he says they have created “a generation of rabid, incompetent idiots.” Sometimes a political
Screwworm science offers an accidental lesson about the fraud of American eugenics. There is a strange lesson hiding inside the return of the New World screwworm to Texas. The United
How young Texans with little money and a lot of shoe leather built La Raza Unida — and what Texas Democrats might learn from them today When I was a
Houston is expanding a network of cameras capable of recording license plates and helping police determine where vehicles have traveled. Officials can point to an obvious reason for them: crime.
Twenty-three thousand jobs disappeared from U.S. payrolls in July. Wall Street responded by setting a record. The S&P 500 rose 0.62 percent Friday to a record high. The Nasdaq jumped
