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Driving in Texas has always been stressful. In the rural parts of the state, the distances between destinations can be vast, while in the cities and suburbs, highways are often choked with traffic. But since the pandemic started in 2020, you may have experienced even more stress on the road than usual. Maybe drivers seem more aggressive and distracted, and casual disregard for rules such as speed limits, stop signs, and traffic signals seems more flagrant than ever before.If all of that feels true to you, we can tell you this: You’re not imagining things. According to several studies, Texas drivers really have gotten worse over the past five years. But just how bad? That’s a bit of a complicated question. We’re worse than we’ve…

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Representative Lloyd Doggett, of Austin, on Tuesday became the first sitting member of Congress to call for President Joe Biden to step down as his party’s nominee. In his statement, he referenced Biden’s lackluster performance in last week’s debate against Donald Trump, somehow finding a delicate way to acknowledge the disconcerting frailty displayed. “President Biden has continued to run substantially behind Democratic senators in key states and in most polls has trailed Donald Trump,” Doggett said. “I had hoped that the debate would provide some momentum to change that. It did not. Instead of reassuring voters, the President failed to effectively defend his many accomplishments and expose Trump’s many lies.”Doggett also, in imploring Biden to follow the example of former president Lyndon Baines Johnson, who…

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I was grilling some chicken a while back with the help of some newly purchased barbecue gear. I’d just picked up a new knife, a basting brush, and a handheld blowtorch for a little fun. It got me thinking about what other tools I could use to make grilling and smoking feel even less like work, so I spent a few weeks searching for new and interesting items. After trying them out, I wanted to share some of my old favorites along with a few that may be new to you for your own backyard cooking.XL Drip EZ BBQ Prep Tub ($50)Prepping raw meat can be a messy task with the dirty cutting boards and rub debris all over the counter. Then, if you want…

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My boyfriend’s mother, a Boston chemist whose early career involved visiting oil refineries across the globe, has a saying about Texas: “There’s no place colder than Houston in the summer.” Of course, it’s not the outside temperatures she’s referring to, which regularly top 100 degrees in the summertime, but the aggressively air-conditioned indoor climate. As she is wont to note, the cold is intended for the comfort of those who wear suits—the sleeveless among us be damned.I was reminded of her adage in 2022, when I attended a Houston carbon capture expo amid a mid-June heat wave. Enviro-capitalists milled around a huge convention center that showcased the latest in technology that removes CO2 from the atmosphere or prevents it from being released, and promised to…

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An El Paso judge on Tuesday denied Attorney General Ken Paxton’s attempt to shut down Annunciation House, a Catholic migrant shelter. Paxton had targeted the 45-year-old nonprofit in February, when he accused its staff, without evidence, of “operating a stash house” and “harboring aliens,” and requested a host of records from the shelter in an attempt to prove it. But in granting Annunciation House relief from Paxton’s requests, District Court Judge Francisco X. Dominguez wrote that Paxton didn’t establish what laws the shelter was violating, and that he used the records request to harass its guests and operators. The judge, in his ruling, called this breach “outrageous and intolerable.”Dominguez reasoned that closing the shelter, as Paxton intended, would violate the Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act,…

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