Allegra Hobbs

Mar 5, 2024 | texasmonthly.com | Ben Rowen |Christopher Hooks |Forrest Wilder |Alex Samuels |Michael Hardy |Sasha von Oldershausen | +2 more

Howdy!Ben Rowen, 10:00 A.m. Welcome to the Texas Monthly primary live blog! Election Day is finally upon us, after a seemingly interminable campaign season. Electioneering started more than nine months ago, after the Texas House impeached Ken Paxton and rejected Greg Abbott’s school voucher program for the first time. Those two seismic events widened deep rifts in the GOP and inspired a spate of primary challengers. In the interim, our politics has gone full Mad Libs.

Feb 26, 2024 | texasmonthly.com | Allegra Hobbs

Tony Gonzales is missing. That was the unmistakable theme of the Republican primary debate for the Twenty-third Congressional District, a polity larger than North Carolina that spans much of southwest Texas, in early February. The two-term congressman’s absence at his own public flaying was referenced twice before the start of the main event, held in San Antonio’s Aggie Park by hosts who theatrically refused to say his name aloud.

Oct 10, 2023 | bigbendsentinel.com | Allegra Hobbs |Mary Cantrell

TRI-COUNTY — The Texas Department of Transportation, El Paso District, will be accepting public comments until this Friday, October 13, on two proposed stretches of bike lanes alongside highways in Presidio and Brewster counties. If all goes according to plan, the projects are slated to begin construction in March of 2024.

Oct 4, 2023 | bigbendsentinel.com | Allegra Hobbs |Mary Cantrell

MARFA — This is not a story about Rob Weiner. That is a story I have been all but forbidden from writing — though he is, in fact and in spirit, omnipresent in all its parts. As the actors who have been rehearsing, for five years, all five acts of William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, take to a stage for the first time, it is hard not to see him as part of the play. The modestly-sized Crowley Theatre side room is ringed by a dais, surrounding the actors from above with their audience.

Sep 20, 2023 | bigbendsentinel.com | Allegra Hobbs |Mary Cantrell

MARFA — County Commissioner David Beebe last week proposed an alternative route to divert traffic expected to flock to the new, expanded El Cosmico off Antelope Hills Road — one that would cut through Vizcaino Park. The suggestion drew strong reactions from the crowd at Wednesday’s regular commissioners court meeting. Some of those gathered decried the idea of cutting a road through the park, which they saw as an untenable solution to the acknowledged problem of road access.