Joshua Fechter is the Dallas-based urban affairs reporter for The Texas Tribune, covering policy—including housing affordability, housing and property taxes, evictions, policing and transportation—and ...

Experts suggested that more data and education are needed as Texas and the rest of the country build in known flood plains.

These floods do not come from nowhere. They are an effect of larger historical, structural, and environmental processes.

Experts suggested that more data and education are needed as Texas and the rest of the country build in known flood plains.

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Fear and reticence spread in Fort Worth as Sally Mann’s nude photos of her children were held as police evidence.

Reckless agency layoffs and the dismantling of federal relief programs could leave the Lone Star State in peril.

Inside Climate News. She covers renewable energy in Texas from her base in Dallas.

Drought has hollowed out Chihuahua’s Conchos Valley and bred civil unrest as South Texas demands the water it’s owed.

English and Environmental Studies, a writer, and an academic at Rice University in Houston. She grew up in the Hill Country just southwest of Kerrville.

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