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A Retired Race Car Driver Found a New Way to Get Paid to Go Really, Really Fast
Working Life is a monthly column in which Texans talk about their jobs. Ryan Hampton, who is 52, tests tire performance at the Goodyear Tire Proving Grounds, in San Angelo.I’m originally from South...

The Great Pig War of Matagorda County
During the COVID-19 pandemic, some people baked sourdough bread. Others worked in their garden or learned a new instrument. Ben Flores and An Huynh began raising 250-pound hogs. The idea came togeth...

DOGEing the Texas Education Agency
Conservatives back Dem bill to shrink agency overseeing schools...

Texas DOGE Committee Looks to Form $88M State Cybersecurity Agency
Cyber Command would dramatically expand spending on cybersecurity...

Texas House Bill Would Take Kids’ Phones Away During School Hours
Poll shows parents concerned about safety amid shootings...

Day Trips: Sam Houston Memorial Museum, Huntsville
The Republic of Texas Presidential Library tells the story of the man and the legend...

The Best Little Shopping Strip in Texas
The red go-go boots are a half size too small, but I buy them anyway. It’s almost closing time at Mimi Shoes on South El Paso Street, just a few blocks from the Santa Fe bridge, which arcs south ove...

Experts Were Already Worried About Austin’s Fire Risk. Then Came the Crabapple Fire.
For years now, Bob Nicks, president of the Austin Firefighters Association, has been the city’s very own Cassandra, the Greek mythological figure whose prescient warnings go unheeded as doom approac...

Can You Buy Yourself a Longer Life?
I walked into the sleek new longevity and health-optimization clinic on a sunny winter afternoon feeling especially haggard. Earlier in the week, a mysterious allergic reaction had covered much of my ...

The Town Fire
This story is published in collaboration with the Austin-based literary journal American Short Fiction. The grandfather and his grandson lived at opposite ends of a whitewashed wood-frame house on th...