Across Texas

Texas is closer to a country than a single place, and this desk covers it that way. We track the forces that touch the whole state: a population that has passed 31 million, a shifting demographic makeup, and the water, roads, and jobs that growth strains everywhere at once. We also hold the differences in view, because the Panhandle, the border, the Gulf Coast, and the metro triangle answer those shared pressures on very different terms.