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...Mexico is my home. I have no idea why. It's where I belong. I love everything about it. I love the terrain. I love the people. In my teens I worked on a dude ranch there. You can't get sopaipillas [a type of fried doughnut] anywhere else. I know people that have moved back to New Mexico from other states because they couldn't get sopaipillas. It's a good death food: it'll kill you in a minute, but it's a good death...
...student’s departure from an isolated cattle ranch and alfalfa farm near Death Valley, Calif., to an urban campus is, by definition, radical...
...world. The lawsuit has brought the city's past and present into conflict. Most of the 18 plaintiffs in the case, according to their Houston attorney Steve Thompson, work in Abilene - among them a doctor, a professor and a gym owner - but have chosen to live the nostalgic "ranch lifestyle" outside the city, and that's where old Texas and new are colliding...
...lands intact. Companies generally pay an initial easement access fee, usually in the low six figures, followed by monthly wind royalty checks, perhaps $500 for each turbine. But some guardians of Texas lands and legacy are less amenable, among them Jack Hunt, chief executive officer of the legendary King Ranch, headquartered in South Texas. A recent bid by a Scottish company to build a wind farm on the neighboring Kenedy Ranch brought Hunt into the fray and conflict between two ranches...
...Kenedy Ranch project is in limbo after local officials denied a $100 million local tax abatement, and Hunt vows there will never be a wind farm on the King Ranch. The 80 or so descendants of Capt. Richard King who share the King Ranch brand, land and businesses want to preserve the fabled ranching legacy and the land. The two ranches sit in the path of "the River of Birds," the flyway that brings birds from Canada to Mexico, including whooping cranes. Birding enthusiasts are just a few of the eco-tourists, along with hunters and fishermen, that are creating...