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A year after the floods, Texas mulls lessons of Hurricane Harvey

by Andy Uhler
Aug 24, 2018
Greater Houston area residents are voting on a bond to fund flood mitigation.
Residents evacuate an apartment complex in west Houston where high water coming from the Addicks Reservoir flooded the area after Hurricane Harvey on Aug. 30, 2017.
Photo by Erich Schlegel/Getty Images
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Investors flock to previously flooded Houston neighborhoods with hopes of big returns

by Andy Uhler
Aug 22, 2018
Some homeowners are eager to sell, but officials fear new renters will be put in harm's way.
In the Meyerland neighborhood in southwest Houston, Texas, house debris is still being cleared a year after Hurricane Harvey.
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Friday nights in one small town in Texas means football and ... cricket?

by Andy Uhler
Aug 7, 2018
Businessman Tanweer Ahmed will start by promoting his "dream project," the country's largest cricket complex, to the South Asian community that already enjoys the sport.
The developer's rendering of the new Kalsoom Prairie View Cricket Complex in Prairie View, Texas, population 6,000. The first four fields are set to be completed by September.
Courtesy of Tanweer Ahmed
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Higher tariffs on consumer goods resonate at a Texas Walmart

by Andy Uhler
Aug 2, 2018
On Wednesday, the Trump administration unveiled a proposal for even higher tariffs on many consumer goods imported from China. We went to a shopping center in Austin, Texas, to find out what buyers of those goods thought about the plan. Click the audio player above to hear the full story. 
A customer carries merchandise through a Walmart Supercenter.
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Business is booming in Texas, but so is uncertainty

by Andy Uhler
Jul 31, 2018
Want to know how tariffs are impacting the U.S.? Look at the Lone Star State.
The Deer Park Shell Manufacturing Complex in Deer Park, Texas.
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A day in court at the Texas border: “The mothers don’t know where their kids are"

by Andy Uhler
Jun 19, 2018
In March, the Trump administration ordered prosecutors to charge every person illegally crossing the border and separate children traveling with their parents. The children are kept at detention centers.
A former Walmart Supercenter now called Casa Padre is being used as a migrant children's shelter, in Brownsville, Texas.
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Feral swine, "the worst invasive species we'll ever see"

by Andy Uhler
Jun 6, 2018
The hogs will eat just about anything, and landowners in Texas are at their wits' end. The USDA is developing a poison. "We’re out of options,” an agency researcher says.
Jackie Brister's ranch hand, Roberto Olvera, caught this feral hog running through his boss' wheat. He'll sell it to a meat processor one county over.
Filipa Rodrigues/Marketplace
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Some Texas colleges are offering a new kind of scholarship — to fight hunger on campus

by Laura Isensee
Jun 5, 2018
Several Houston community colleges and universities have launched food scholarships to help students get enough to eat. At Texas Woman’s University, students on the scholarships get free groceries twice a month, so long as they stay in school. The assistant director of student life there, Deborah Unruh, helped start the program after she noticed students […]
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Texas governor proposes spending over $100 million for safer schools

by Andy Uhler
Jun 1, 2018
President Donald Trump was in Texas Thursday meeting with the families of ten people who were shot to death at a high school in Santa Fe Springs near Houston. Earlier this week, Texas Governor Greg Abbott laid out a plan to increase school safety in his state. The $120 million proposal would focus on “hardening schools” […]
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In Texas, hunting hogs out of a helicopter is big business

by Andy Uhler
May 25, 2018
Feral hogs cause millions of dollars in damage to crops across the U.S.
Coulter Airfield in Bryan, Texas is about an hour and a half northwest of Houston. It's where the helicopter hog hunting business, Helibacon, is based.
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