Deep in the Heart of Texas: Natural Gas Cuts Its Way Through the Hill Country

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Deep in the Heart of Texas: Natural Gas Cuts Its Way Through the Hill Country

By Emily Martin & Will Wadsworth News Director & Assistant News Director In this month’s In the Public Interest segment, KTSW News worked its way through Hays County to find out more about the contentious Permian Highway Pipeline project. Once constructed, the pipeline will run from the Waha natural gas fields north of Fort Stockton to Katy on the western edges of Houston—a roughly 430-mile distance that runs through 16 […]

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Signs that are anti-pipeline such as clean energy now are placed along the Wimberley Community Center

News

Kinder Morgan Holds Open House in Wimberley

By Emily Martin and Will Wadsworth News Director and Assistant News Director Energy Infrastructure company Kinder Morgan is making its case for a proposed natural gas pipeline through the Texas Hill Country after the company held the first of several open houses last night in Wimberley. The company scheduled four open houses across Central Texas in total, including two here in Hays County, and Kinder Morgan’s Vice President of Public […]

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Culture

Mariposa Madness

By Hannah Alvarado Web Content Contributor Autumn is my absolute favorite time of the year, which I’m sure a lot of you will agree with me on. It’s the start of the holiday season and the entire world seems to suddenly have such a cozy nature to it. There’s only one issue though, we live in South Texas, so unfortunately we are excluded from a lot of the fall time […]

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Events

MR Fest Artist Profile: Foxmoor Express

By Nestor Vazquez Music Director Christian Ellis - Guitar, Vocals Cameron Martin - Drums Matt Moreno - Bass The Hill Country has been known for its barbecue, incredible scenery of never-ending greenery and lately, its splash into the rock scene. One of the bands responsible for the cultivation and revival of good old fashioned rock 'n’ roll is New Braunfels’ based band Foxmoor Express. They describe themselves as “three childhood […]

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News

Civil Rights Summit Focus on LBJ

Civil rights was the topic of discussion this week as the LBJ Library in Austin kicked off the Civil Rights Summit on Tuesday. Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan visited with media Tuesday morning and discussed his most recent play, “All the Way,” which focuses on Lyndon Baines Johnson’s passing of the Civil Rights Act and the beginning of America’s involvement with Vietnam. In the Broadway production, Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston […]

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