what it feels like to rewrite a lede for the 50th time

Michael Hardy smartly frames this story around the hunt for a single killer. But Hardy also wisely takes time for fascinating detours through the controversies around DNA-based investigations and the unique complications of Cajun genealogy. Texas Monthly bit.ly/4cE7LUR

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Incoming! Must-read profile from Michael Hall on Fifth Cir Judge James Ho:

Your forecast for the next ~72 hours #atxwx #txwx

"Indeed, Tomberlin explained, every American is already eating bugs...The wheat that goes into two slices of bread can contain more than one and a half insect parts per gram."

It's LBJ's birthday, so why not read this weird and wonderful dan solomon 🙈 story about the goofy sketches he did on presidential letterhead? texasmonthly.com/news-politics/… (h/t Eva Ruth Moravec!)

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Here comes the next big boom in Texas. There's lithium under the bayous of northeast Texas, possible world-class deposits. My latest for Texas Monthly texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…

Hiram (donkey) Leatherface, Nubbins & Sally (horses) Pappy, Beaufort, Preston, Dolph, Ann (cows)

I need to know each of their plans for bringing an HEB to El Paso

Few, if any, working restaurant critics understand their stomping grounds as well as Pat Sharpe. 50 years of covering food in TX armed her with an unmatched expertise. She covered trends as they unfolded over decades and presented a new restaurant in context like no other.