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Laura Mallonee

@lauramallonee.bsky.social
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It's "Mal-uh-knee." Freelance journalist based in Austin

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Texas Highways @texashighways.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
New: Quinta Mazatlan represents a decades-long bet that what’s good for birds is also good for humans. @lauramallonee.bsky.social tells the remarkable story of how the Rio Grande Valley birding sanctuary came to be and its wild vision for the future. texashighways.com/travel/mcall...
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McAllen's World-Class Birding Center Bets Big on South Texas’ Future
After a $59 million renovation, the McAllen sanctuary has doubled in size and hosts a new educational center
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Laura Mallonee @lauramallonee.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
When cities invest in nature, they invest in people. It was a delight working with @hoinski.bsky.social on this story that shows how McAllen, Texas, has done just that at Quinta Mazatlan.
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Laura Mallonee @lauramallonee.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
“If anybody thinks that they’re done, that the job is done, it’s not. It’s just starting.” My latest for @grist grist.org/extreme-weat...
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What another Texas flood revealed about the state's warning system
Texas remade its early warning system after last year's deadly inundation. July's flood revealed what it accomplished — and what’s left to do.
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Laura Mallonee @lauramallonee.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It was great to speak with @kutnews.bsky.social about my reporting last year on the Hill Country floods for their latest episode of 'After the Flood' kutkutx.studio/after-the-fl...
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Feeling Forgotten - KUT & KUTX Studios - Podcasts
On July 5th, one day after the deadly floods in Kerr County, another flood hit the community of Sandy Creek 100 miles away. Nine people died and over 100 homes were damaged or destroyed.Ashlee Willis ...
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Laura Mallonee @lauramallonee.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
For my latest, I returned to Sandy Creek, an unincorporated community near Austin where dozens still live in damaged homes, temporary housing, and RVs—some now closer to the creek than the homes it destroyed.
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Laura Mallonee @lauramallonee.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
It was fun chatting with the @texasstandard.bsky.social this week about the rollback of clean energy policy in Texas. My story: www.texasstandard.org/stories/texa...
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Texas saw a $50 billion future in clean energy. Then the political winds shifted.
Renewables brought income to ranchers and tax revenue to counties long buffeted by boom-and-bust oil cycles. Policy changes in Washington and unease on the ground threaten that momentum.
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Laura Mallonee @lauramallonee.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
My latest for @grist explores the promise that clean energy holds for a former oil county in West Texas, how incentives rollbacks threaten it, and residents‘ complex views about it all.
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Laura Mallonee @lauramallonee.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
What a delight! Thanks @longreads.com
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Texas Monthly @texasmonthly.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Not yet twenty, Helena Crevar is one of the most feared fighters in martial arts. 🤼 What’s her secret? www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertain…
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This Texas Teenager Is the Best Female Grappler in the World. Don’t Expect Her to Talk About It.
Not yet twenty, Helena Crevar is one of the most feared fighters in martial arts. What’s her secret?
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Laura Mallonee @lauramallonee.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
“'When I was young, I wanted to see old trees,' Moore says as we walk along a sandy path littered with pine needles. 'Now that I’m old, I love to see young trees.'" Lovely piece on the woman (and town) saving the Venus fly trap from development, via @longreads.com gardenandgun.com/feature/venu...
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Saving the Venus Flytrap: How One Woman Rallied a Town Around Its Weirdest Attraction
Despite their outsize hold on popular imagination, Venus flytraps are native to a tiny corner of the globe: the Coastal Plain of the Carolinas. As development threatens, one town—spurred on by one tir...
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Mike Hoinski @hoinski.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Issue drop, November, Texas Highways. Christopher Collins on East Texas Forests @lauramallonee.bsky.social on Parks Volunteers @bobby-aleman.bsky.social on Barton Springs
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Laura Mallonee @lauramallonee.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
After the July 4 Hill Country floods, residents of Sandy Creek in Travis County felt ignored, even as officials insisted they were doing everything possible to help them. This gap in perception fuels a crisis of trust that threatens unincorporated communities nationwide. My latest @grist.org
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 28/08/2025
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Washington, DC under military occupation in last August 2025, with banners proclaiming the absolute power of the primus inter pares
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Laura Mallonee @lauramallonee.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Texas politics has never been short on controversy—and the state’s first woman governor, inaugurated a century ago, brought plenty of her own. I unpacked her bizarre story for the July/August issue of @texashighways.bsky.social texashighways.com/culture/hist...
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The History Behind Texas’ First Woman Governor
How Miriam “Ma” Ferguson won the state 100 years ago
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Laura Mallonee @lauramallonee.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
My latest @grist.org , co-published with @texastribune.org, follows a group of prep school boys in Dallas who rise early on weekends to rescue rare native plants from bulldozers — to the consternation of some professional conservationists in Texas.
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Laura Mallonee @lauramallonee.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Tbh, Musk's fence isn't exactly an outlier. In Austin, a lot of rich people are guilty of "building stuff and then asking for permission later." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...
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Won’t You Be My Neighbor? No Thanks, Elon Musk.
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Laura Mallonee @lauramallonee.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
My first piece for @gristnews.bsky.social explores how restoring the thorn forest of South Texas can boost community resilience. Turns out, what's good for animals may also be good for humans.
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Laura Mallonee @lauramallonee.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Minutes from Fort Worth's historic stockyards, an exhibit exploring the myth of the white cowboy was temporarily shut down after complaints about "mature content." Artists and many museum staff were left in the dark. My story for @texasmonthly.bsky.social www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta...
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A Museum Exhibit Challenges the Myth of the White Cowboy. It Opens With a Trigger Warning.
The Amon Carter added a mature content warning soon after opening “Cowboy,” a show originally aimed at “disrupting” the portrayal of the Western ideal as cisgender, straight, and white.
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Laura Mallonee @lauramallonee.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I did a crazy thing and wrote about it for @texashighways.bsky.social. This is a story about me, my dad, and the part of Texas where he grew up, a place that both enchants and bewilders me. Oh, and there are alligators, too!
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Laura Mallonee @lauramallonee.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Here I am on yet another social media site, which happens to share the same name as the company that tunes up my furnace.
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