Michael and Daniel recap the Texas Republican Convention and public forums in Matagorda and Bay City, then take a hard look at Flock Safety cameras and automated license plate readers — and the privacy and surveillance questions they raise for Texans.
Michael Rice and Daniel McCoslin connect the dots from Hill County’s historic first-in-Texas moratorium to Leon County’s 12 pending energy and battery storage projects, OpenAI’s Stargate supercluster, the SpaceX chip plant in Grimes County, and the Corpus Christi water crisis.
In this episode, Michael and Daniel sit down with water expert Dr. Charles Porter to discuss water rights, land ownership, and the impacts large-scale industrial projects can have on rural communities. The conversation covers how water rights work in Texas, what many landowners don’t realize about the water tied to their property, how water rights differ from mineral rights, and what can happen when high-demand industrial users enter rural areas. ...