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Bowl of Carne Guisada garnished with cheese and cilantro.It’s too cold out there, y’all. When the temperatures dip, and ERCOT comes calling, Texans know: ’tis the season to slurp. While the Lone Star State is better known for its stifling heat and scorching summers, Texans still understand what’s what when it comes to classic soups and stews. Pozole, carne guisada, and chili (of course) are all familiar guests on Texas tables when the temps begin to dip. And for good reason. Nourishing, filling, and infinitely reheatable, soup is as practical as it is satisfying. In an effort to relieve Texans of their shivers, we’ve curated a list of nine favorite soup and stew recipes (plus a bonus recipe for—what else?—cornbread). The dishes below will help fight off the chill and offer comfort in the cold, all…

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Patients wait to be seen at the People's Community Clinic in Austin, on Nov. 8, 2010. Founded in 1970, the People's Community Clinic is a primary care center for the medically underserved and uninsured.Texas moms will be able to stay on Medicaid for a year after childbirth, after the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid approved the state’s application on Wednesday, according to emails obtained by the Texas Tribune.The move caps a years-long effort to extend coverage for low-income moms. Medicaid covers half of all births in Texas, but coverage currently expires after two months.In 2021, the federal government found Texas’s application for continued coverage “unapprovable” due to medically inaccurate language intended to exclude women who had abortions.But when Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, giving states the right to ban abortion, the idea gained traction. During the last regular session, lawmakers worked to reach a proposal that the federal government would approve.The Centers for Medicare &…

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Texas Country Reporter: Mother Neff State ParkTo celebrate one hundred years of Texas State Parks, Texas Country Reporter has been highlighting fascinating characters and feel-good stories set in state parks across Texas. The latest dispatch comes from Mother Neff State Park, often considered the mother of all state parks. Watch to learn more about the unique history of this park.

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Is the Ted Cruz Curse real?On Sunday afternoon, the Dallas Cowboys humiliated themselves in the first round of the NFL playoffs. Facing the hated Green Bay Packers, the team surrendered a 27–0 first-half lead that, by the fourth quarter, had metastasized into a 48–16 embarrassment. (The team narrowed the margin to 48–32 by the end, once the opposing sideline was secure in the knowledge that the outcome was assured.) There was plenty of accountability to go around for the Cowboys’ collapse. Head coach Mike McCarthy may well have been fired by the time you read this; quarterback Dak Prescott declared after the game that “I sucked tonight”; the entire defense was laughably bad. But one unlikely figure has shouldered a surprising amount of blame on social media for the team’s…

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Hotel 1928, in Waco.Anyone who’s taken Interstate 35 between Dallas and Austin knows the Alico building. The tallest skyscraper in the state when it was completed, in 1911, it remains the tallest building in Waco, by ten stories. But it’s hardly the city’s most prominent structure. The roughly two million people who visit Waco each year might notice the giant red Amicable Life Insurance Company sign that tops the tower, but many are coming to visit the Silos, the Disneyesque 5.3-acre downtown shopping complex built by Chip and Joanna Gaines, who in the span of twenty years have gone from running a local business to overseeing a multimedia empire. In 2003 the couple, who had recently begun renovating homes, opened Magnolia Market. (Originally on Bosque Boulevard, it’s now…

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John Brotherton and Daniel Vaughn.John Brotherton passed away on Monday while hospitalized following a cardiac event that occurred on January 4. He was 49. You may have seen the #JMFB hashtag on social media along with the massive outpouring of support for the beloved pitmaster. There’s a long, expensive road ahead for his wife, Brenda, and son, Braeden. John’s friend Russell Roegels started a GoFundMe page for medical expenses. Brotherton’s Black Iron Barbecue, in Pflugerville, the restaurant John opened in 2017, remains open and operating.Back in 2019, I called John Brotherton the day before the Texas Barbecue Town Hall at Texas A&M. He was tasked with preparing the meat for the hundred or more attendees, and I offered to help him cook the following morning, with a major caveat.…

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Judge-Janis-Jack-Texas-Foster-Care-System-Broken-featIn a thirteenth-floor courtroom in downtown Dallas, Jackie Juarez took the witness stand to testify about years of mistreatment under the system that raised her. Now eighteen years old, she stood a little over four and a half feet tall, with dark curls that fell atop a long, cream-colored cardigan. She pulled the microphone close as she spoke. At eleven years old, she had been placed in the state’s custody, for reasons that remain confidential. She was removed from a group home after reporting inappropriate text messages from a male staffer—he remained employed at the facility, while Juarez was accused of causing trouble—only to be shuffled among hotels and churches and even forced to sleep in office buildings. She was what the state calls a…

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Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott (left) and offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer (right) watch a replay on the video board from the bench during an NFL wild-card playoff football game against the Green Bay Packers Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024 in Arlington, Texas. The Packers defeated the Cowboys, 48-32.Jerry Jones didn’t even bother with one of his traditional word salads after the Dallas Cowboys’ most recent postseason collapse. Gone were his customary convoluted responses to reporters’ questions—the kind that leave sportswriters trying to decipher whether the Cowboys owner has plans to fire the team’s head coach or order a large pepperoni. This time, after Sunday’s 48–32 loss to the Green Bay Packers in a home playoff game, Jones’s relentless optimism gave way to a rare display of despair. “This one’s burned into our soul out here tonight,” he said. “I say this to our fans, how much you deserve us to not have this ending. . . . This seems like the most painful [loss] because we all had such great expectation and we had hope for this…

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Randall KingThere’s country music, and then there’s having your album listening party at the flagship outpost of National Roper’s Supply. The smell of leather, emanating from rows of saddles and other horse tack, hits as soon as you walk into the Decatur shop. Any shoe but a cowboy boot is suspect. On a November evening, Randall King, a Panhandle-born, Lubbock-bred singer-songwriter, hustled around the store in custom Lucchese boots, attending to the invitation-only crowd that had assembled in this small town, forty miles northwest of Fort Worth, to hear his album Into the Neon for the first time.“If you took an old 1800s bar, dropped it into the Grand Canyon at night, and sipped a tequila old-fashioned under the stars, that’s what this record is,” King…

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Estella Ybarra.She never felt right about sending him to prison. Every year around Christmas, Estella Ybarra would find herself thinking back to December 1990 and that El Paso courtroom, where for three days she sat on a jury holding Carlos Jaile’s fate in her hands. From the start of the trial she’d been unimpressed by the evidence that he had raped an eight-year-old girl. The state’s case hinged on the victim’s identification of Jaile in a police lineup two years after the attack. The girl said her assailant wore mechanic’s clothes and drove a beige sedan. Jaile was a successful vacuum cleaner salesman who wore a shirt and tie and drove a red Subaru hatchback. His lawyer brought in three alibi witnesses who testified he was…

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