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Ben Rowen, a senior editor, recently received what in the military is known as a battlefield promotion. A Texas Monthly staffer since 2020, he began directing our coverage of news and politics just weeks before the deadline for our biennial Best and Worst Legislators story—one of the most popular features we produce and one of the most challenging to organize, report, write, edit, illustrate, and fact-check.This year the level of difficulty kept rising, as lawmakers kept failing to act on their priorities, including property tax cuts and school vouchers, and faced the prospect of multiple special sessions. Yet Ben stepped up, led a stellar team of journalists, and delivered a Best and Worst list in the July issue that was tough, fair, serious on the…

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