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The Cancer Factory
Jim Morris, a seasoned investigative journalist from Texas and the founder of the nonprofit Public Health Watch, has a brand new (and scary) book about corporations concealing workplace hazards that...
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From strip malls in Houston suburbs to beach houses in Brownsville, Texas is an enormous haven for money launderers. But for a long time, nobody has seemed to be in any hurry to do anything to stop...
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Saving Lone Star Literary Life
Out in West Texas, a pair of aspiring novelists and enterprising small-town newspaper owners, Barbara Brannon and Kay Ellington, were dismayed by the number of publications that were dropping book...
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The SpaceX Land Swap Is Only the Latest Texas Public Park Giveaway
Whenever SpaceX rockets blast off from the sandy property that Elon Musk controls near Brownsville, the road to Boca Chica Beach—including Boca Chica State Park—closes by order of the county judge (as...
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Surviving Baptistland
Christa Brown, a former Texas appellate attorney, is revered as perhaps the best-known of the brave women (and men) who blew the whistle on abusive clergy and coverups at churches in the powerful...
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‘You are the best El Jefe!’: Henry Cuellar’s Alleged Brazen Foreign Bribery...
In January 2013, U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar and his wife Imelda took an 8-day trip to Istanbul, Turkey, then to Baku, Azerbaijan, where they met with high-level officials in the latter...
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A Small-Town Texas Librarian’s Big Stand Against Book Bans
Suzette Baker, from unincorporated Kingsland, was feted recently by the Authors Guild in New York City as a “Champion of Writers”—the first-ever recipient of a national award established to honor...
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Bringing Home the Story of Ben Spencer
Barbara Bradley Hagerty is an eclectic journalist: In her working life at NPR and later at The Atlantic, she has relentlessly pursued stories that somehow connect the divergent tent poles of religion...
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Lawmen Above the Law
Mark Lamb decided to run for sheriff of Pinal County, Arizona, after his pest control business failed and a police officer friend gave him a ride-along. “I had this deep burning desire to run for...
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Pipeline Explosion in Deer Park Reveals Hidden Hazards Texans Face
One of the biggest explosions and fires in recent Texas pipeline history was apparently sparked by a disoriented SUV driver who took the wrong road out of an oversized Walmart parking lot in the...
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