Jesse Rizo, who lost a niece in Texas' deadliest school shooting, turned pain into a run for public office. He thinks his ...

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Local activists warn that while residents must ration, unimpeded industrial expansion is imperiling the region’s future.

Due process hasn’t been protected. The process that is set in place in this country that is the basis and foundation of our ...

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Matthew Johnson’s guilt was never in question. On the stand during his 2013 trial, he admitted to the crime that landed him on death row. The attack—an early morning robbery and murder in a ...

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At an April 2017 committee hearing in a meeting room tucked away in the Capitol’s underground extension, state Senator Paul Bettencourt, a bespectacled Houston Republican, touted a proposal of ...

A version of this story ran in the May / June 2025 issue. These days, the thrum of traffic and the roar of a bulldozer intrude on conversations at café tables clustered outside the Swedish Hill ...