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An old Russian proverb holds that nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution. As evidence, consider the paths by which Texas Monthly landed our new editor for business and innovation, Jason Heid, and our new senior writer based in Houston, Michael Hardy.Jason, 43, joined us in early 2019 as a freelancer with an impressive résumé. Reared in the North Texas town of Denton, Jason earned a history degree from Trinity University in San Antonio. He returned home to write for a chain of community newspapers and within a few years was running one of them, as its sole journalist: writing stories, editing submissions, snapping photos, accepting classified ads—“everything,” Jason says, “except throwing the newspaper.”He rose to leadership roles with other papers before joining D…

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