TEXAS

What grows best in Texas? Here’s your ultimate gardening guide
by Joey Held
| February 18, 2025
Whether you’re growing food for home snacking and cooking or want outside decor to spruce up the yard, these nine plants are ideal in Texas conditions.

As Texas’ energy demand soars, a pilot program looks to bolster grid with “virtual power plants” fueled by people’s homes
| February 18, 2025
Some Texans who install residential batteries, solar panels and smart thermostats can now send power back to the grid and get a credit on their bill.

Despite pleas from women and doctors, Texas may implement even more abortion restrictions
| February 14, 2025
Republicans in the state legislature have already introduced bills seeking to restrict the availability of the abortion medications mifepristone and misoprostol.

Anti-abortion centers face little regulation. The SAD Act could change that.
by The 19th
| February 13, 2025
ABORTION | Donald Trump | EQUALITY | HEALTHCARE | HEALTHCARE | lawmakers | NATIONAL NEWS | national politics | politcal | political | politics | Repro Rights | reproduction rights | TEXAS | trump | women's health
Democratic lawmakers are pushing for the federal government to better regulate anti-abortion centers, facilities that seek to dissuade people from terminating their pregnancies, The 19th is first to report.

12 foods Texas is famous for—and the stories behind them
by Joey Held
| February 12, 2025
The Lone Star State has a hearty helping of foods and drinks it’s helped make popular, and some of these Texas classics sport legendary origin tales.