In-depth profiles of the Texans shaping politics, policy, and public life across the Lone Star State.
Katrina Pierson was working full time, going to school and raising a child when she told her doctor she was exhausted and something felt wrong.
The tell, Patrick Quigley says, is what Texans do when they actually need care.
Ashley Wall told exactly one person she wanted to write children's books, and he bought a company before she finished the sentence.
The fender bender that cost a Central Texas trucking company a fifth of its workforce began as a $3,000 repair.
The cheapest public records request is the one nobody has to file.
Bob Woody wanted to be a dishwasher.
The most-discussed subject at last week's House Higher Education Committee hearing never made it onto the agenda.
Success is often associated with financial gain, or as something that is attained without regard for how broader communities are affected.
When a hurricane closes the highways into the Rio Grande Valley, the roads stop being the answer.
By the fall of 1998, Hoover Alexander was out of money and nearly out of time.
Most entrepreneurs come to the Legislature asking for fewer rules.
Brandon Creighton spent two decades in the Texas Legislature writing the rules for higher education.