Tesla and SpaceX aren’t the only businesses owned by Texas billionaire Elon Musk’s to draw serious whistleblower complaints about their safety records. Workers at Musk’s Boring Co. raised concerns about “life-threatening risks” during the firm’s construction of tunnels in the Lone Star State, according to a new Express-News investigation. Among the allegations: employees were burned with […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Cities and small towns in Texas from the Mexico border to Texarkana braced for a flood of visitors ahead of Monday’s solar eclipse, with some local leaders warning their residents to prepare by […]
In case anyone is wondering how much money visitors are bringing to Texas as they descend on the Hill Country to view Monday’s eclipse, a San Antonio college professor has crunched the numbers. Bülent Temel, a political economist at UTSA, estimates that tourism to witness the celestial event will dump between $150 million and $603 […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Teenagers come to Access Esperanza’s family planning clinics in the Rio Grande Valley for birth control.
In 1995, future three-time Latin Grammy winners Aterciopelados did the unthinkable: make Argentine rockeros pay attention to Colombian rocanrol. “Have you heard ‘Bolero Falaz’?” two-time Oscar- and multi-Grammy-winning producer and composer Gustavo Santaolalla asked me around that time.
Editor’s Note: Bad Takes is a column of opinion and analysis. If you’re like me and only pretended to read the Italian poet Dante Alighieri’s Inferno in high school, good news: a recent four-hour documentary on PBS breathes new life into the musty classic. Though seven centuries separate us, Dante’s work remains tragically relevant for […]
A three-acre ranchette nestled on a hillside in the Texas Hill Country town of Bulverde is full of survival stories. One of its residents, Jerry, an orange-and-white speckled cat, was injured when someone tied a firecracker around his neck and lit the explosive.
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Texas Supreme Court Justice John Devine is facing new questions about his impartiality after a clip went viral this week in which he implied that Democrats plan to cheat against presumptive Republican presidential […]
A new 15,000-square-foot water playground is opening at SeaWorld San Antonio’s Aquatica Water Park this weekend. The Tikitapu Splash Zone will debut Saturday with a grand opening ceremony slated for 11:30 a.m. The latest addition to SeaWorld’s Aquatica will feature three giant dumping buckets, four additional water slides and more than 100 new water play elements, including […]
Texas, Being: A State of Poems is an anthology that doesn’t pretend to cover the history of Texas or even every town and city. There’s something else at work in this collection curated by Jenny Browne, a professor of English and creative writing at Trinity University who also happens to be the 2016-18 poet laureate […]