A sweet deal for home-based food businesses in TX
| October 7, 2025
Community | cottage food vendors | CULTURE | FARMING | food | food & drink | food and drink | home-based businesses | home-based food businesses | LIFESTYLE | local business | SMALL BUSINESS | TEXAS
It is now easier in Texas for home cooks, bakers and farmers to sell their products to the public.
Chili’s skillet queso fans are nacho happy about the chain’s new menu mixup
| October 6, 2025
chili's | CULTURE | food and drink | HARDGATE | LIFESTYLE | Skillet Beef Queso | Southwestern Queso | TEXAS | White Skillet Queso
Chili’s announced that it’s doing away with its White Queso and Beef Skillet Queso options. The dips will be replaced with a new vegetarian alternative.
OPINION: FEMA’s shortcomings are dangerous for Texas, but things can change
| October 6, 2025
Lives depend on the efficiency of our nation's disaster relief systems. And I will continue to fight fiercely for these reforms to ensure that our government helps.
Texas ranks second in the US for book bans
| October 6, 2025
book bans | books | censorship | DALLAS | DFW | DFW TEXED EXCLUSIVE | EDUCATION | K-12 education | TEXAS
It’s Banned Books Week, which means PEN America—a nonprofit that fights censorship—has updated its database of banned books in public schools throughout the country.
Meet the Indigenous people of Texas
| October 6, 2025
Community | CULTURE | Federal Harm | get involved | HARDGATE | History | houston history | indigenous tribes | native americans | TEXAS
Despite efforts to erase Native American history in the US, there are still active tribes in Texas and efforts to recognize the state’s Indigenous history and preserve the remaining communities. Nationally, Indigenous Peoples’ Day is now celebrated on the second Monday in October—what was once Columbus Day, until 1992, when the city of Berkley, CA […]