Will the feds pick up the tab for Texas’ $11 billion border crackdown? Republicans are pushing it
Gov. Greg Abbott, who has urged congressional leaders to pay the state, is set to visit Capitol Hill Wednesday.
From the Statesman archives: Railroad, freedom colonies changed Austin after Civil War
The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...