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KILLEEN’S DAIS THEATER AND THE FIRST SPLIT
KILLEEN, TX — If you want to understand how power redistributes itself after a municipal realignment, don’t look at the smiles during the ceremonial…
A TRUCE AMONG THE TOMBS: THE SEVENTY-TWO HOUR REPRIEVE
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the grey dawn of this Friday, the machinery of modern slaughter has been ordered to a halt. President Donald Trump,…
The Ghost Taxpayer: Separating Fact from Science Fiction in the Data Center Debate
If you attended the recent city council meeting in Temple, you might have walked away thinking the apocalypse was breaking ground in Central Texas.…
THE MANOR EXPERIMENT: ACCOUNTABILITY’S GRIM RECKONING IN BELL COUNTY
KILLEEN, TX — In the hallowed, often stifling halls of the Killeen Independent School District’s central office, a decision was reached this spring that…
THE LUDDITE RECOIL: TEMPLE’S DATA CENTER AND THE PRICE OF PROGRESS
TEMPLE, TX — There is a particular brand of civic fever that takes hold when the modern world attempts to plant its flag in…
THE LAW OF THE BIGGEST PUMP: TEXAS’S FEUDAL WATER REALITY
AUSTIN, TX — As the mercury climbs and the Leon River begins its annual retreat into the mud, the citizens of Bell County find…
THE INTEREST GUILLOTINE: SERVICING THE GHOSTS OF YESTERDAY
WASHINGTON, D.C. — There is a law of history, often attributed to the 18th-century philosopher Adam Ferguson, which states that any great power that…
THE GREAT UNRAVELING: THE DELEGATION OF COMPETENCE
WASHINGTON, D.C. — For forty years, the American bureaucracy operated on a simple, if flawed, principle: when the law was silent, the "experts" spoke.…