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The Hard Ceiling Over Texas Cities’ Climate Plans
In 2015, a 25-year-old flooring installer named Roendy Granillo collapsed and died of heat stroke on a construction job in Melissa, a small town northeast of Dallas, after his family said he was... READ MORE
A Jailhouse Snitch and the System that Made Him
Paul Skalnik was a con artist, passing bad checks, role-playing as a successful businessman, and racking up a series of sometimes overlapping marriages. Over the years, he bilked numerous people out of their... READ MORE
In Texas Schools, a Crisis of Arrests of Kids as Young as 10
Editor’s Note: This story was supported by grants from the Fund for Investigative Journalism and the Center for Health Journalism at the University of Southern California. Seated inside a Starbucks café last February,... READ MORE
The Bats of Bracken
The gaping mouth of Bracken Cave, created when limestone collapsed into a sinkhole in this rocky patch of Hill Country millennia ago, reveals only darkness to the human eye. Yet the room inside... READ MORE