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Author of Sunflowers, Spaceport Earth, Inferno, Red Sky Morning, Four Against the West and Boomtown. Magazine writer. Spirit 544. Ghost for hire.
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Elon Musk’s Starbase Was a Strangely Apt Spot for Celebrating the USA’s 250th

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By Joe Pappalardo Verified, Jason Heid Verified
| Texas Monthly Verified
Towering hundreds of feet above the dunes of Boca Chica Beach, an American flag the size of a two-car garage ripples dramatically, hung from a crane beside a pair of launchpad towers built for the largest rockets ever constructed. In the fading sunlight, it’s a properly patriotic backdrop for the squat stage serving as the center of today’s Fourth of July celebrations. A live rock band gives way to a young local singer with a surprisingly mature voice.
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Corpus Christi’s Water Crisis Sparks a Fight With Its Neighbors

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By Joe Pappalardo Verified, Jason Heid Verified
| Texas Monthly Verified
Chris Cuellar’s eyes scan the eight-inch pipe that’s spewing water on the other side of the chain-link fence. Drawn from hundreds of feet below the surface, the water tumbles down a short spillway that leads straight into the Nueces River. It will flow roughly five miles downstream, to the intake pipes of the City of Corpus Christi’s O. N. Stevens Water Treatment Plant. From there, a vast network of pipes will carry it to homes and businesses.
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The True Story of “the Wickedest Town in Texas”

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By Joe Pappalardo Verified, Jeff Salamon Verified
| Texas Monthly Verified
Adapted from Boomtown: The True Story of the Wickedest Town in Texas by Joe Pappalardo, by permission of St. Martin’s Publishing Group. Frequent Texas Monthly contributor Joe Pappalardo’s rollicking new book, Boomtown: The True Story of the Wickedest Town in Texas (St. Martin’s Press), uncovers the story of Borger, a small settlement in the northern stretches of the Panhandle that was renowned during the 1920s as a den of gambling, bootlegging, prostitution, and random violence.
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