Early February marks the publication of The Texas Metropolitan Blueprint, which lays out a five-year policy agenda to ensure long-term prosperity and competitiveness for the state's 26 metropolitan ...

Welcome to our guide to the 89th Regular Legislative session. We’ll walk you through who makes up the Legislature, how laws are passed and what to expect.

Google says it will rename the Gulf of Mexico on its U.S. maps, and Mexico is pushing back. This wouldn't be the first body ...

Texas Monthly put out a public service announcement of sorts. In response to a long-sounding albeit fairly faint alarm that may or may not have originated from within the walls of our own office, we ...

Inside the Interior Department, the Board on Geographic Names has purview over names ... It also said that Google Maps users ...

In the U.S., place names are standardized by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, which is part of the U.S. Geological Survey, the agency in charge of making maps. In his executive order, Trump asks ...

The water in the Gulf of Mexico appears bluer than usual off of East Beach, Saturday, June 24, 2023, in Galveston, Texas. (Jill Karnicki/Houston Chronicle via AP, File) A boat is seen on the Susitna ...

For now, our maps, graphics and interactives ... to describe the body of water along the Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida coasts. There are other examples where the AP refers to a ...

A spokesperson for National Geographic, one of the most prominent map makers in the U.S., said this week that ... the river that forms the border between Texas and the Mexican states of Chihuahua, ...

Americans and Mexicans diverge on what to call another key body of water, the river that forms the border between Texas and the Mexican ... A spokesperson for National Geographic, one of the most ...

What's in a name change, after all?

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