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This is the Friends of History Debating Society.

I'm John Bachelorette with my colleague Michael Jan at Michael Underline Jan

at Twitter now known as X for Michael's reporting.

Colony Ridge.

This is a very fast-growing amount of land and settlements on that land

north of Houston in Texas Liberty County.

New York Times is now covering the story within these last days.

Michael discovered this with his colleague some weeks ago,

brought it to the attention of the Texas legislature,

oh, brought it to the attention of Governor Abbott,

and the legislature and Governor Abbott are now investigating

the questions about how this land is being developed,

who's paying for, who's giving, providing down payments,

how they're being financed,

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