Stories

Local decisions with outsized consequences

This section is for landmark civic stories that started in Texas local government and then reached far beyond one city hall, one utility, or one meeting night.

Featured story

Running Dry: How Corpus Christi Drifted Into a Water Crisis

A decade of industrial commitments made without supply, a desalination plan that grew from $140M to $1.2B, and a drought framework that never caught up to climate reality.

Corpus ChristiWaterGovernance2015 - 2026