New beers become available in Texas all the time. Brews from the country’s oldest brewery becoming available here that happens just once.
In January, Yuengling – pronounced “ying-ling, announced it would begin brewing and distributing beer in Texas. It’s a big deal for the 192-year-old Pennsylvania brewery. Despite its long history, Yuengling is available only in 23 states now including Texas. It’s a staple of taps and coolers farther east, but largely unavailable elsewhere.
“One thing about Yuengling, it always had kind a cult beer reputation,” said Mark Noon, assistant professor of English at Bloomsburg University and the author of
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Texas Lege Roundtable
There are two weeks left in the Texas Legislature’s regular session, meaning there’s a dash to get things done. Despite initial thoughts that the session would a focus on quality-of-life issues related to the pandemic and preventing another deadly winter blackout, it’s taken a sharp right turn to focus on culture war issues instead. We’ll talk to Allie Morris, statehouse reporter for The Dallas Morning News and Jeremy Wallace, political reporter for the Houston Chronicle, about the waning days of the 87th Texas Legislature.
Houston has been an eviction hotspot during the pandemic, with close to 30,000 eviction cases filed since the start of the COVID-19 restrictions. A federal program to pay delinquent rent was supposed to help; in the Houston area, officials are scrambling to hand out more than $150 million. But as Houston Public Media’s Jen Rice tells us, landlords don’t necessarily want that money.