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Texas-Country-Reporter-Amelia-Farms-Beaumont-pecan-fed-hogsSusannah Cronin is the third-generation owner of a farm covered in pecan trees on the northwest side of Beaumont. When she realized how quickly the city was moving into the country, she decided she needed to make some moves so she wouldn’t have to surrender her family’s land to the city. Thus Amelia Farm & Market was born. What started as a restaurant has evolved into an event venue, and it’s the type of space where you can look out your window and see exactly where your food came from. See more in the latest dispatch from Texas Country Reporter.

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Representative Andrew Murr speaks during the impeachment proceedings against state Attorney General Ken Paxton in the House Chamber on May 27, 2023.In a history-making late-afternoon vote, a divided Texas House chose Saturday to impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton, temporarily removing him from office over allegations of misconduct that included bribery and abuse of office.The vote to adopt the twenty articles of impeachment was 121-23.Attention next shifts to the Texas Senate, which will conduct a trial with senators acting as jurors and designated House members presenting their case as impeachment managers.Permanently removing Paxton from office and barring him from holding future elected office in Texas would require the support of two-thirds of senators. Read Next The Texas Legislature Finally Comes for Ken Paxton By Christopher Hooks The move to impeach came less than a week after the House General Investigating Committee revealed that it was investigating Paxton…

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Coleccion MexicanaMiguel Martin began making papier-mâché sculptures for his home to celebrate Dia de los Muertos. His creations turned into a passion, which evolved into Colección Mexicana, a store that he runs with Ray Hernandez. Together, they curate a colorful collection of handmade goods from Mexican artisans and Martin himself. See more in this video from Texas Country Reporter.

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Texas Attorney General Ken PaxtonAt the start of this week, the Texas Legislature was sliding toward the conclusion of yet another underwhelming, but basically normal, session. Lawmakers had wasted a lot of time and effort, and soon they would go home. But the calm was illusory. By the end of the week, everything was in flames: blood was sloshing down the Capitol’s marble halls like the building was the Overlook Hotel. Attorney General Ken Paxton called House Speaker Dade Phelan a drunk, urging him to resign and “get the help he needs”; later that afternoon, a House committee announced it had been investigating Paxton for months. The Texas House met Saturday, and after about four hours of debate, voted to impeach Paxton. To paraphrase Mao: everything under the dome…

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Czech RadioEvery Sunday afternoon, David Kolar’s voice reaches across the airwaves of KHBR 1560 AM. Fluent in Czech, Kolar queues up traditional polka music from a sound studio in Hillsboro on The American Czech Hour, a weekly program on KHBR. The niche show started in 1970 and continues to reach the many Czech Texans who live near the area. See more in the latest dispatch from Texas Country Reporter.

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The Indie App Developers ruined by Musk's purchase of TwitterWhen Paul Haddad unfolded his laptop to start working after dinner on a Thursday evening in mid-January, he didn’t realize his life was about to be turned upside down. Haddad, the brainy cofounder of Tapbots, an award-winning software company that develops apps for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, clacked away writing lines of code in the living room of his home in Flower Mound. A text message interrupted him. “I’m having problems logging in,” wrote Mark Jardine, Haddad’s mild-mannered business partner, referring to Tapbots’ flagship product, Tweetbot. As a third-party Twitter app, Tweetbot provided a more personalized and curated experience by allowing users to customize their timelines with robust filters and view their feeds in reverse chronological order.  Users were getting an error message when they…

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texas honey bees house billWes and Dede Price run a small honey operation out of their Allen backyard. They started Bare Naked Bee Company about a decade ago with a couple of queen bees, and today they’ve got a hundred hives, each humming with 50,000 to 60,000 bees. They jar about 2,500 pounds of Texas wildflower honey annually to sell at farmers markets and retailers. Because their operation is 100 percent Texan, they won’t face penalties if House Bill 590 passes. The bill, authored by Texas representative Ernest Bailes, who represents District 18, in the southeastern part of the state, proposes that products labeled as “Texas honey” must consist “exclusively” of honey produced from Texas apiaries. If codified, the bill would become part of chapter 131 of the Texas Agriculture…

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One by Wille Ray Wylie HubbardAs the man who wrote “Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother,” Ray Wylie Hubbard—one of the founding fathers of Americana music—knows a little bit about anthems. On this episode of One by Willie, Hubbard focuses on a Willie song that rose to that lofty status long ago, Nelson’s erstwhile show opener “Whiskey River.” It’s one of those songs that even casual fans recognize the instant they hear its opening  guitar lick, and Hubbard describes how Willie took it from the original, hard-core country shuffle released in 1972 by its composer, Johnny Bush; filtered it through what Hubbard calls Willie’s “jazz, jam-band mind”; and turned it into what many consider the national anthem of Texas. Subscribe Apple Podcasts — Google Podcasts — Spotify — Stitcher (Read…

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Coastal-Cowgirl-Fashion-Trend-TikTokOn a breezy Sunday in late May, I walk into a boutique on Dallas’s Henderson Avenue called Favor the Kind to crack the case on the fashion world’s latest trend: the coastal cowgirl. “You’re speaking my love language,” says manager Haley Diaz, age 26, placing two representative pieces on a clothes hook. The top is a tropical-print halter that ties at the rib cage, and the bottom is a white prairie skirt that comes to the ankles. Together, the outfit says, I’m down to party, but not till I pick these wildflowers.“My mom might say those two things don’t go together,” I tell her, because it’s easier to throw my 78-year-old mother under the bus than admit this criticism is mine. “Exactly!” Diaz says. She likes…

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Junk Science in Candy Montgomery CaseIn the finale of the Max Original limited series Love & Death (on which Texas Monthly is an executive producer), viewers finally see the bloody axe killing at the heart of the Candy Montgomery case. While everybody watching knew the scene was coming (it had been teased for six episodes), it was still absolutely terrifying—the ferociousness of Candy’s attack was shocking, her savagery beyond doubt.So (spoiler alert) how in the world did the jury find her not guilty of murder? To understand the acquittal, you have to go back a couple of episodes, to a scene in a dark doctor’s office. Candy, played by Elizabeth Olsen, sits in the office of psychiatrist Fred Fason (Brian d’Arcy James), and closes her eyes. She’d agreed to be…

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