Texas cities dramatically reduced per capita water consumption last decade. Then the Californians showed up (also in state transplants not familiar with drought conditions). Forrest Wilder reports: texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…

Texas, we have a problem. Newcomers—and the developers who cater to them—love their big, thirsty green lawns. As a result, water conservation is faltering in many parts of the state.

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Many of the 1A folks who made a career off campus protests have been consistent on this issue. But this guy is a pure free speech opportunist. No principles in sight

In 2020, California techies raided Texas. They came. They saw. They concurred (that they preferred to live elsewhere). Christopher Hooks on the Austin tech mini bust and the end of the 'Texas Miracle' era of state GOP politics: texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…

It is remarkable how little politics has changed in the last 60 years

The Texas GOP has come a long way in the last five years:

A great way to demonstrate you don't care about “the Jewish race” is to use the term “the Jewish race”

My wife and I recently purchased a Craftsman-style bungalow in the Heights neighborhood of Houston. We knew our mortgage rate and property taxes would be high. We didn’t anticipate the difficulty of finding home insurance. My latest for Texas Monthly texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…

NEW from me: The 'ghost wolves' of Galveston Island—coyotes with high levels of endangered red wolf DNA—have enchanted folks on the island, but the animals face threats from development, including a Jimmy Buffet-themed Margaritaville resort.

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The only way Civil War functions as a movie is to make no effort at realism. Its point is about the moral failure of objective journalism and the underlying politics are irrelevant. It’s less subtle (less good) Nightcrawler

'I would love to have him as a neighbor,' Rhonda Haberer told me. 'He might make a landing strip for future aliens.' For Texas Monthly I spoke to Far West Texas residents about their newest neighbor: Alex Jones texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…

Attention Texas homeowners! Did your home insurance premium dramatically increase recently? Want to vent about it? I'm working on a story for Texas Monthly about the Texas insurance market and would love to interview you. My DMs are open

An Indigenous man who spoke a rare language couldn't understand the court proceedings when he was charged with a crime in Texas. Was it a fair trial? Texas Monthly texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…

Night Moves. Gene Hackman playing against himself while on a stakeout

What they are wearing is easily the least objectionable thing about this situation

On the one hand there’s the Vonnegut quote about the power of Vietnam protest art amounting to that of a custard dropped from six feet. On the other, Michael Bay’s The Rock did this:

Never had a stronger reaction like this than to Away We Go on rewatch last year

Devastated to learn that Bikini Solar Eclipse is not a legitimate purveyor of protective eyewear. There was no way for me to know