Long-Standing Problems Led Up to Deadly Texas Floods, Lawmakers Told July 24, 2025 By Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune, Hayden Betts, The Texas Tribune and Paul Cobler, The Texas Tribune No minimum qualifications for local emergency management coordinators. No easy way to know if local officials are getting weather warnings....
Texas Counties Have Little Power to Stop Building in Flood-Prone Areas July 9, 2025 By Joshua Fetcher, The Texas Tribune and Paul Cobler, The Texas Tribune Camp Mystic, the private summer camp that now symbolizes the deadly Central Texas floods, sat on a tract of land...
Texas Braces for Budget Constraints as Federal Funding Dries Up July 2, 2025 By Paul Cobler, The Texas Tribune The era of massive state budget surpluses in Texas could be coming to an end. As the last of the...
Study: Urbanization Contributed to Deadly 2015 Wimberley, Texas Flood February 8, 2018 By Paul Cobler, The Texas Tribune The 40-foot wall of water that gushed down Texas’ Blanco River in May 2015, wiping out parts of Wimberley and...