Meet the “French Cowboys” Buying Up Hill Country Hotels
Four years ago, two young entrepreneurs from France began scouring the Texas Hill Country, looking to buy land and hotels for a new venture. A few months into their search, business partners Franklin ...
The Texanist: Have You Ever Heard Of This Obscure Texas Saying?
Q: I was blessed with a mother from Central Texas whose speech was enriched with phantom diphthongs (“Let’s go out to the raynch”), stony rhotics (“and rahde harrsses”), and funny sayings....
An Austin Gun Dealer Won a Suit to Overturn the Bump Stock Ban
An Austin gun-shop owner succeeded Friday on a years-long quest to overturn a federal ban on bump stocks, winning a 6–3 victory at the U.S. Supreme Court.Bump stocks are devices that allow semiautom...