Angela Lim is a General Assignment Features Reporter at The Seattle Times and a previous news fellow of The Barbed Wire. Her work can be seen in Texas Monthly and Austin Chronicle. Lim was born in Houston and lived in the Philippines for 16 years.
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A federal judge temporarily blocked the Texas A&M University System’s ban on on-campus drag shows on Monday morning, allowing a student group to carry out an upcoming drag event on the College Station campus. Texas A&M’s drag ban violated the First Amendment, according
Crime & Justice
The temperatures in some Texas prisons are much higher than staff record them to be, according to a court-requested investigation, reported by KUT News. According to a Texas Department of Criminal Justice internal investigation, employees from at least one Texas prison forged temperature records. The agency uses these records
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In another move to intensify the surveillance of transgender Texans, the state has been keeping tabs on drivers who’ve updated the sex listed on their identification documents, The Texas Newsroom reported. The Texas Department of Public Safety collected drivers’ information and sent it to an internal email account made
Health
UPDATE, March 18, 2025: A Houston-area medical assistant and nurse practitioner were also arrested in connection to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s arrests targeting abortion providers. Jose Manuel Cendan Ley, a 29-year-old medical assistant, was arrested for allegedly helping Maria Margarita Rojas perform what Paxton called
Crime & Justice
A former pastor of a Texas megachurch is set to surrender to officials on Monday on child sexual abuse charges that date back to the 1980s. Last week, Robert Morris was indicted on five counts of “lewd or indecent acts with a child,” according to the Office of the Oklahoma
Money
Elon Musk — cheater at video games, Austin-based father of (at least) 14 children, and apparent supervisor to President Donald Trump — is getting millions of dollars more from the state of Texas, all while he slashes government spending. A $17.3 million state grant will go toward Elon Musk’s
Immigration
A family living in Rio Grande City was on their way to Houston to see medical specialists for their 10-year-old daughter when they were stopped and arrested at an immigration checkpoint, NBC reported Wednesday. When the mother — who spoke to NBC and whose name is being withheld to
News
If Texas lawmakers want to use taxpayer money to fund private education, they’re going to hear from a lot of concerned citizens. A contentious public hearing on the issue lasted almost 23 hours this week, as hundreds of people spoke to lawmakers. About 330 people registered for public testimony
Health
A private school in Fort Worth is proud of its low vaccination rates — it even put it on a T-shirt. Mercy Culture Preparatory Academy had a measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination rate of 14.29% among kindergartners in the 2023-2024 school year, the lowest in the state, according
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Since neither tax incentives nor government propaganda are solving the country’s fertility crisis, self-described proponents of eugenics and race science will gather to think of solutions at a natalist conference in Austin, as was first-reported by The Guardian. Returning for a second time on March 27-28,
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Congressman Sylvester Turner, who was just two months into his first term representing the 18th Congressional District of Texas, died on Tuesday, according to the Texas Democratic Party. He was 70 years old. Turner told the press in 2022 that he was cancer-free after secretly receiving treatment for bone
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Texas’ Republican lawmakers have long argued that drag shows endanger children. That was always a stretch, but Texas A&M University has taken things a step further. The university’s Board of Regents voted to ban drag performances on its 11 campuses, and the resolution, which unanimously passed on