Will Bostwick

Even MAGA Republicans Hate Plans to Put a Border Wall in Big Bend Virtually no one, it seems, thinks a physical barrier in the region is a good idea. The Trump administration is rushing to build one anyway.

NEW from me: A border wall in Big Bend, including the state and national parks, would "ruin the whole area forever"—and even MAGA politicians from the region are against it. Yet Trump is marching forward.

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What’s the Matter With Texas A&M? Five presidents in five years. Firings of “woke” professors. Crackdowns on Plato. Inside state leaders’ efforts to remake a great university.

For two years, I've been investigating claims that Texas A&M University has been overtaken by the forces of gay race communism. The truth is a little more complicated: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

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Inside an Ambitious Plan to Replant 50,000 Trees Along the Flood-Ravaged Guadalupe Local botanists are doing their part to help the river heal.

Per early estimates, 52% of the vegetation along the Guadalupe was lost after the July flood, including countless centuries-old bald cypress trees. I spent some time with those working to restore the ecosystem and helping locals make sense of the ecological loss: www.texasmonthly.com/travel/repla...

All y'all should read the great Mike Hall on the great Joe Ely

Inside the Fight for Texas’s Most Precious Resource Elected leaders, rich investors, and small-town residents are stumbling over the same question: Who owns the state’s water?

Growing cities and wealthy investors want East Texas water, but locals aren't giving it up without a fight. For @texasmonthly.bsky.social, I spent some time on a couple of ranches in the region to report on the battle over the state’s most precious resource: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

Inside the Fight for Texas’s Most Precious Resource Elected leaders, rich investors, and small-town residents are stumbling over the same question: Who owns the state’s water?

Growing cities and wealthy investors want East Texas water, but locals aren't giving it up without a fight. For @texasmonthly.bsky.social, I spent some time on a couple of ranches in the region to report on the battle over the state’s most precious resource: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

“The River House Broke. We Rushed in the River.” The July 4 Texas flooding ripped our Kerr County home from its pillars, pulling us into the water and into the night. Then morning came.

“I don’t know how long it took—ten seconds, maybe fifteen—for the house to come apart."

During the early-morning hours of July 4, the Guadalupe River pulled senior editor Aaron Parsley and six members of his family into its waters. Read his firsthand account:

It Was Already a Brutal Race. Then They Had to Move It. Each year, competitors from around the globe take on one of the toughest endurance races in the state, the Hoka Bandera 100K. Then the weather presented yet another challenge.

An ultramarathon in the Texas Hill Country has long been a proving ground for the best trail runners in the world. This year, a service member from San Antonio—who didn’t think she’d make the starting line—stole the show. My latest for
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They Claim God Talks to Them About Politics. Donald Trump Is Listening. Cindy Jacobs and other New Apostolic Reformation leaders have battle plans for “spiritual warfare” during the president’s second term.

D-FW is a hub for New Apostolic Reformation leaders. For @texasmonthly.bsky.social, I took at deeper look at the work of one, Cindy Jacobs, an internationally beloved "prophet to the nations," who preaches spiritual warfare—often sporting her red cowboy boots.
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The Decline of Outside Magazine Is Also the End of a Vision of the Mountain West After its purchase by a tech entrepreneur, the publication is now a shadow of itself. A letter signed by its illustrious contributors says as much about a way of life as it does about the media indust...

I wrote about the sad things that have been happening with Outside magazine for @newyorker.com today: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

A Tweet by Cornyn's team of a fake Ken Paxton doll with accessories making fun of his affair.

The John Cornyn vs. Ken Paxton Senate race is already shaping up to be one for the books.

On E. 6th Street in Austin, a high-tech ops center overseeing gigawatts of wind and solar. A few blocks away, under the Capitol dome, a bill gaining strength that would be an "industry killer." The very Texas fight over renewable energy is my latest:
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Gloria Smith Goes Down Home After stumbling upon her rich family history, the Fort Worth woman made it her mission to save a historic freedom colony in Texas.

Gloria Smith, who lives in Fort Worth, didn’t expect to find her roots in rural Burleson County. Then she started looking. Now she’s saving the Dabney Hill freedom colony, one building at a time. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

When the Catholic Church Ran a Public School in Small-Town Texas In a bizarre precedent to today’s debates over faith in the classroom, a local ISD let nuns run its school for twelve years. It went about as you’d expect.

Come for the nuns, stay for the accidental undertaker.

A Lauren Larson special—

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SpaceX Starship’s Sonic Boom Creates Risk of Structural Damage, Test Finds An independent researcher found that noise recorded miles away from the site of a recent test flight was equal to standing 200 feet from a Boeing 747 during takeoff.

THREAD: So let's take a deeper look at Elon Musk's Starship and the noise impact it is having on the South Texas area where it is launching. It is the largest, most powerful rocket ever built. As tall at 30 story building. Here first is our story. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/u...

The Texas Longhorn Isn’t as Texan as You Think Photographer Joel Salcido uncovers the story of its origins.

The Longhorn, like many of us, has a long and tangled immigrant story to share."

Photos by Joel Salcido & words by John Phillips Santos, which is a knockout one-two punch. In the new @texasmonthly.bsky.social
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