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Van Horn is so much more than a playground for billionaires with space rockets.

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos' space race is heating up, and Texas gets a front-row seat Ken Ellis/Staff illustration FacebookTwitterEmail This is the first of three articles exploring the two men vying to dominate the commercial space industry and the two Texas towns where they are launching their spacecraft. Along the southern beaches and western mountains of Texas, two of the world’s richest men are launching rockets. Geography, wealth and an obsession with space have fueled the enterprises of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. But other than murals depicting their skyward-gazing faces in Brownsville ...

Unmasked: Across Texas, elation and caution as COVID-19 restrictions end after a year Texas Tribune Published:  Updated:  Tags:  Roxanne Espinosa’s life changes today. For the last year, the 34-year-old mom has been masking up and avoiding taking her children to their favorite places in Hockley due to pandemic closures. But today, the statewide mask mandate and coronavirus restrictions on business are lifted, and Espinosa sees life returning to normal in her rural home in unincorporated Harris County. No more waiting for a seat at a restaurant due to low capacity, a situation normally u...

A newly "open" state will likely look very different in rural towns and suburban neighborhoods compared to more populous areas and coronavirus hot spots, residents and business owners say.