rural Texas

While Texas's booming metros will have more people representing them, that’s not the case in more rural parts of the state.

A first draft of the new congressional redistricting maps has been released, showing two new seats in metropolitan areas due to growing populations.

On a Tuesday evening earlier this month, outside Ralls’ City Hall, nearly two dozen residents waited in the 90-degree Texas heat. For two hours, they...

While Texas is responsible for educating more rural students than any other state in the country — nearly 700,000 — it’s not doing as much for those...

Fifteen million Texans lack access to broadband internet. Most of those Texans are rural residents, and many live in the Texas Panhandle.Now, as KERA…

From Marfa Public Radio: In the tiny West Texas town of Valentine, population 130, there’s no gas station, and it’s a 30-mile drive to the nearest...

From Texas Standard . Texas has been more urban than rural since the 1950s, and though the state’s wide open space has a lot to do with its mystique,...

Rural Texas has been on the decline for decades.Now, The Texas Observer has published an essay detailing the “Seven Most Pressing Issues Facing Rural…

Rural Texas residents stand to be hurt if President Trump’s proposed budget is adopted, reports the Texas Observer. The White House budget cuts billions…

In a recent editorial in the San Antonio Express-News, two prominent Texas economists suggested ways to revitalize the rural economy in Texas.Many people…