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A Houston woman makes a split decision for home sharing

by Marketplace Contributor
Feb 20, 2017
Her townhome is designed with two units to host short- or long-term paying guests.
Lydia Afeman’s townhouse in Houston is flexible on the inside, to allow for short or long-term paying guests. 
Florian Martin
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Texas program helps fill the ranks of construction management jobs

by Bill Zeeble
Dec 26, 2016
There's a construction boom in North Texas.
Jesse Johnson, (wearing hat), a student in construction management, at the Preston Hollow home job site.
Bill Zeeble
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ICE releases mothers and children who came to U.S. from Central America

by Marketplace Contributor
Dec 21, 2016
The release coincided with a state judge’s ruling that Texas could not license two family detention facilities as child care centers.
Central American women and children rest in a cafeteria of a San Antonio Mennonite church after being released from detention facilities in South Texas.
Joey Palacios/Texas Public Radio
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Nonprofit uses music to improve care for dementia patients

by Marketplace Contributor
Nov 8, 2016
Since the program started in February, there’s been a 60 percent drop in patient falls.
Candyce Slusher, left, and Christy Duarte, right, help patient Marilyn Mecke listen to Julio Iglesias on her iPod.
Lucia Benavides
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In Texas, kids learn money doesn't grow on trees

by Bill Zeeble
Jul 25, 2016
From stores to a bank and radio station — in Enterprise City, kids run it all.
Students run things in the North Texas town of Enterprise City.
kenteegardin/VisualHunt
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A Texas range war over a natural gas pipeline

by Lorne Matalon
Jul 18, 2016
A pipeline carrying natural gas to Mexico from Texas will across remote ranches more than a century old.
The Trans-Pecos Pipeline is expected to send 1.4 billion cubic feet of Texas natural gas per day to Mexico.
Lorne Matalon/Marketplace
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Unemployed oil workers find new home in solar industry

by Marketplace Contributor
Jun 7, 2016
Texas oil workers are flocking to solar power jobs, despite lower wages
: Workers manufacture, package and distribute solar modules in the Mission Solar warehouse in San Antonio.  
Brenda Salinas/Marketplace
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Texas lake businesses booming again after long drought

by Marketplace Contributor
May 12, 2016
Now that water levels are up, the businesses on Lake Travis are seeing better days.
From 2010 to 2015, Texas faced a severe drought. Lake Travis was down to one-third of its water levels. 
The Oasis
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How West Texas is surviving the oil bust

by Lorne Matalon
Apr 27, 2016
The nation's highest-producing oilfield in west Texas hasn't seen a drop in production. Until now.
A frack operation in the Permian Basin of Texas, the nation's highest-producing oilfield. The Basin was once the floor of an ancient seabed that today is laden with hydrocarbons.
Lorne Matalon/Marketplace
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Why Houston keeps flooding

by Kai Ryssdal
Apr 19, 2016
Flooding in and around Houston has killed at least five people and prompted mass rescues
Children play in flood waters in the Kelliwood Park neighborhood of Katy, Texas. Flooding in and around Houston has killed at least five people and prompted mass rescues. Governor Greg Abbott declared a state of disaster in nine counties.  
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