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A post oak fire burns overnight inside a smoker in the basement of a high-rise building in uptown Corpus Christi. I went searching for breakfast at AEP Texas, an electric utility company, where I heard brisket kolaches (or klobasniky, if you prefer) could be found. Down a flight of stairs from the lobby was a small food court with just one vendor operating (the other closed eight months ago). Taste at 555, which is named after its address, 555 North Carancahua, opened here in 2022. One of the stipulations owner Ricci Neer required in the lease was that she’d be able to bring her smoker, an Ole Hickory model designed to fit under a vent hood. Because, like everything else on the menu, the brisket…

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Texas boasts more varieties of native ferns and lycophytes (“ferny plants” for nonbotanists) than any other state in the continental U.S. As you might expect, you can find them in wetter regions such as the Gulf Coast and the Piney Woods, but they also live in places that seem too harsh for such lush organisms, including the edge of the semiarid Llano Estacado in the Panhandle. There, tucked away in the upper western corner of Caprock Canyons State Park, in Quitaque (about 95 miles northeast of Lubbock), Fern Cave beckons hikers off two of the more challenging trails. A rugged landscape of hoodoos, burnt orange cliffs and mesas, and short-grass prairie (where the park’s famous bison graze) gives way to a shady, verdant sanctuary. Spring…

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Michael Hall breaks down his February 2024 feature, “The Juror Who Found Herself Guilty,” and his quest to find the woman who set an innocent man free—finally reuniting them after more than three decades.

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U.S. attorney general Merrick Garland said some victims of the 2022 Uvalde school shooting would have survived if Texas law enforcement officers—who waited more than an hour to confront the gunman—had followed “generally accepted practices.”Those assertions came Thursday after the U.S. Justice Department released a withering report into the hundreds of Texas law enforcement officers’ fumbled response to the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting, finding “cascading failures of leadership, decision-making, tactics, policy and training.”The long-anticipated 575-page report detailed the many catastrophic errors of the May 24, 2022, response, but concluded the most significant was that officers should have immediately recognized that it was an active shooter situation and confronted the gunman, who was with victims in two adjoining classrooms.Garland called the response “a failure that should not…

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Most women who don the crown and sash of Miss Texas have the same ambition: to become Miss America. Averie Bishop, who was Miss Texas 2022, came pretty close, placing third in the pageant. Flush with that near-victory, she made a hard pivot: she decided to take on the political establishment. The 27-year-old from McKinney, about thirty miles north of Dallas, isn’t your typical agitator. The daughter of a Filipino immigrant mother and a fifth-generation Texan father, she attended college and law school at Southern Methodist University before becoming the first Asian American Miss Texas. In that role, Bishop made some unusual choices, speaking out on controversial issues, such as guns, racism, and reproductive rights. That brought her lots of media attention, giving her the…

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