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You Can Bring Your Trained Service Miniature Horse on Southwest Flights
On September 17, a new service animal policy from Southwest Airlines goes into effect. The new rules—which govern trained service animals, psychological support animals, and emotional support...
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Who Has the Best and Worst Commutes in Texas?
When it comes to traffic, there’s a pronounced divide between rural Texas and urban Texas. In great stretches of the state, you can comfortably cruise for miles at 80-plus miles per hour at any time of...
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A Person Died After Renting an Electric Scooter in Dallas
Last year, companies like Lime and Bird descended upon cities around the country with a staggering fleet of electric scooters. They’re parked on the street, rentable by the minute via a smartphone app,...
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The Conversation About Cyclist Safety That Isn’t Happening in the Rio Grande...
On September 6, nineteen-year-old David Gobellan was hit by a car while riding his bicycle down a poorly-lit stretch of road on his way home from the gym. Four days later, he died in the hospital....
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The Latest Texas Vanity Plate Auction Has Some Real Winners
Every year or so, Texas’s custom license plate vendor, MyPlates, gathers together a collection of unique vanity plates that somehow do not belong to anyone, assembles them online, and places them up...
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The CDC’s First Study of Dockless Electric Scooters Will Happen in Austin
If you live in Austin, Dallas, or San Antonio, it can be hard to remember that just a year ago, dockless electric scooters didn’t adorn every corner. A bird was a flying feathered animal, a lime was a...
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An Austin Man Is Suing Bird Over Where Someone Left One of Its Scooters
Last week, Austin resident Mark Walters filed suit against Bird, one of the companies whose scooters have grown so ubiquitous in Austin that the CDC is studying their public health impact on the city....
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The Romance of the Rail in West Texas
It began this summer, when we slept with our windows open. The first time it happened, I awoke in the middle of the night not knowing what I’d heard. It sounded like loony laughter from a dozen...
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The University of Texas’s Scooter Speed Limit Is a Glimpse of the Future
On Monday, the University of Texas at Austin announced a new speed limit for the dockless scooters that have become ubiquitous not just on its campus but throughout central Austin, Dallas, and San...
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The Texanist: What’s the Difference Between a Farm to Market Road and a Ranch...
Q: As a Houstonian, I’m used to FM (Farm to Market) road designations and was surprised on an Easter trip to visit my in-laws in Austin to find 2222 designated as RM (Ranch to Market). Has it always...
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Houston Is Now Less Affordable Than New York City
For decades, Houston has been a city with one of the nation’s most pragmatic sales pitches: Move here for big-city opportunities at a small-city price. Not a fan of swarming mosquitoes, punishing...
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Waymo’s Autonomous Trucks Are Rolling Into Texas—And Bringing a Debate About...
Over the last few years, Waymo—the self-driving technology company that’s part of Alphabet, the Google parent company—has launched fleets of autonomous big rigs and minivans in California, Arizona, and...
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This Family Survived an African Refugee Camp. Their New Challenge: Surviving...
Until January, Merci Madilu and his older brother, Espoir, had spent most of their existence in a refugee camp in the landlocked Central African nation of Burundi, where they shared a one-room,...
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Yes, This Interchange in Houston Is the Same Size as an Entire City Center in...
Last week, a tweet went viral for pointing out in a novel way something that remains a source of fascination among Texans and non-Texans alike: Houston is really, really big,...
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What Was Behind Greg Abbott’s Bullet Train Flip-flop?
Long before they heard about the Texas bullet train, Mary Meier and her husband were accustomed to companies coming after slices of their land. A fifty-foot-wide oil pipeline easement bisects their...
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This Is How Big the Ship That Got Stuck in the Suez Is, in Texas Terms
Last week, much of the world’s trade ground to a halt for a reason that harks back to simpler times: A big boat got stuck in a canal, and blocked the other ships from passing through it. The Ever...
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Why American and Southwest Airlines Canceled Thousands of Flights
When winds gusted up to nearly sixty miles per hour at Dallas–Fort Worth International Airport just before Halloween, American Airlines canceled dozens of flights. Then it canceled dozens and dozens...
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Antique Auto Supply Had Nine Warehouses, a Million Parts, and One Memorable...
Texas Country Reporter turns fifty in October 2022. Each week until then, we’ll share classic episodes from the show’s history and behind-the-scenes reflections from TCR’s creator and host, Bob...
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TxDOT Wants to Widen I-10 in El Paso. Many Residents Say “No Thanks.”
Around 5 p.m. on a spring Friday, cars and freight trucks motor through downtown El Paso on Interstate 10. You can hear the hum of vehicles buzzing across pavement from the pedestrian bridges that span...
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Is Southwest Airlines Headed for Another Holiday Mess?
Southwest Airlines has bought itself a bunch of new toys for Christmas: planes with larger overhead bins, shiny new deicing trucks, and outdoor heaters that can blast 400,000 Btus of hot air to keep...
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