Texas Archives - Page 9 of 14

When Your Mother Is a Ghost Hunter

by Peter Rubin October 26, 2021October 19, 2022

“On the hunt with TikTok star Brittany Broski and her mother Heather Long, lead investigator of the Texas Ghost Gals.”

Eat, Prey, Love: A Day with the Squirrel Hawkers of East Texas

by Krista Stevens October 21, 2021October 19, 2022

“Of all the red-tailed hawks that have ever soared on a Texas breeze, only one gets to live in Charlie Alvis’s house, at least during the winter hunting season. ‘My bird has its own bedroom,’ said Alvis, a falconer who’s based in the unincorporated community of Porter, just beyond the northern outskirts of Houston.”

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Meet the Fearless Women of the Lone Star Mower Racing Association

by Peter Rubin September 22, 2021October 19, 2022

“Sammie Neel, 62, has seen plenty of crashes, bruises, and burns in her twelve years of racing. She once raced around a track at a monster truck show in the tiny town of Leona, where she flipped and wound up pinned beneath her mower, which she nicknamed ‘Love Mowtion No 9.’”

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Brownsville, We Have a Problem

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands August 2, 2021October 19, 2022

“SpaceX’s investment likely does mean a change in economic status and power for Brownsville. But the money and vision of the world’s second-richest man could also upend the culture and values that make Brownsville special to its community, a fear that has riven the people of this usually quiet place.”

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The Case That Made Texas the Death Penalty Capital

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands February 1, 2021October 19, 2022

“As one of the first death sentences under the new law, Jurek’s case would become a test case, playing a key role in both the nationwide rise of the death penalty and Texas’s place at the center.”