Texas has a lot of ground to cover.

And at Texas Monthly, we do just that.

If there's a story to be told in Texas, and there always is,

you'll read about it in Texas Monthly, 50 years of stories for all y'all.

There's a lot of ground to cover in Texas.

And at Texas Monthly, we've been doing just that for 50 years.

The complicated, the advocated, and the hotly debated.

All that smoked, brewed, shaken, or put into a taco.

The heroes, trailblazers, and bum steers.

Whether we're digging into our past or chronicling the present.

If there's a story to be told in Texas, and there always is,

you'll read about it in Texas Monthly, 50 years of stories for all y'all.

Texas Monthly.

Texas Monthly.

One day last fall, Hempill County Sheriff Nathan Lewis walked into a meeting

with two of the county's top officials.

The county judge, George Bryant, and county attorney Kyle Miller.

And the county attorney looks at me and says,

nice and we're real embarrassed about what the county's going through

and all the slanderers stuff that we're going through.

We're embarrassed about it.

We're embarrassed the news media is, you know,

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