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Texas
Weddings are helping save historic Texas dance halls
Apr 26, 2019
Where touring musicians can't do it, weddings might.
Texas leads way in population growth
by
Andy Uhler
Apr 18, 2019
Strong economy and a lower cost of living are contributing to the increase in the Lone Star State.
One Texas non-profit's idea to help curb climate change
Apr 1, 2019
Landowners would pay to “store” carbon.
Mexico's got it all: warm beaches, margaritas, root canals
by
Andy Uhler
Mar 22, 2019
Lots of Texans drive to Mexico for vacation. Many go for a very different reason: dental work.
Border Life: The 'Cowboy Priest' takes a stand to protect chapel from wall
by
Andy Uhler
Mar 18, 2019
Roy Snipes and the local Catholic diocese are fighting new sections of border wall to protect a tiny, white chapel known as La Lomita.
Border life: A unique housing market in McAllen
by
Andy Uhler
Mar 14, 2019
Editor’s note: Marketplace’s Andy Uhler spent a week reporting about doing business on the Texas-Mexico border during a time of intense debate over U.S. immigration policy and the push by President Donald Trump to build a border wall. Below is the seventh entry from his reporter’s notebook. You can read the other entries here. In some ways, […]
Not plain sailing for Texas oil exports
Mar 8, 2019
In Texas, energy companies are scrambling to find a home for the record amount of oil they’re producing.
For public good, not for profit.
In West Texas, growing oil production comes with deadly highways
Mar 4, 2019
A combinations of dense traffic and time-pressed truckers has led to a spike in fatal crashes.
Houston homeowners say the government owes them for flooding their homes after Hurricane Harvey
Feb 6, 2019
The lawsuit filed by Houston residents whose homes were flooded could set precedent for disaster liability.
Border life: The outlet mall in Laredo
by
Andy Uhler
Jan 29, 2019
Here on the Texas-Mexico border, most people don’t think about the boundary as much more than an inconvenient passport check.