[The Daily News] Ike Dike funding rejected in 'wasteful spending' cut ( archive.is )
About $100 million in federal money for the $34 billion Coastal Texas Project, which the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers expected this spring, might not arrive this year because the House Appropriations Committee didn’t allocate it, touting the decision as part of cuts to wasteful spending....
[Washington Post] Texas Republicans divide over impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton ( archive.is )
[Washington Post] Opinion | Renewables are saving Texas. Again. So give them their due. ( archive.is )
[Houston Chronicle] Latin Restaurant Weeks returns to Houston in July—at nearly twice the size ( archive.is )
[Houston Chronicle] How the Texas heat wave is affecting prisoners, 70 percent of whom don't have A/C ( archive.is )
More than two-thirds of Texas inmates are serving their time without air conditioning as temperatures across the state consistently reach triple digits this summer. Their living and working conditions, under these circumstances, put them at risk of heat-related illness and in the worst cases, death.
[Houston Chronicle] New HISD leader plans to use 'Zoom rooms' to punish misbehaving students ( archive.is )
[Paris Review] Patrick O’Brian, The Art of Fiction No. 142 ( archive.is )
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Want to sue your landlord? Seattle-area tenants ran into a roadblock … ( archive.is )
Issaquah tenant Mary Marks, whose rent had shot up 23% in the previous year and a half, suspected the algorithm could be behind her rent increase. Her property management company, Avenue5, was named along with the software maker RealPage in one of the lawsuits filed in Seattle. Late last year, Marks wondered if she could join a...