Megan Kimble

Texas political economy reporter @HoustonChron. Stories @nytimes @citylab @texasmonthly. Author of CITY LIMITS @CrownPublishing. Professionally curious.

[Megan Kimble @megankimble]

CITY LIMITS publishes TODAY!

[Megan Kimble @megankimble]

Google pledges to invest $10M in Texas water as backlash over AI data centers grows

"People are rightfully concerned," Google's Ben Townsend told us.

First collab with @RebekahFWard in @HoustonChron https://t.co/vTf1NjjLDv

[Dylan Baddour @DylanBaddour]

IDE Technologies Secures Bid for Largest Seawater Desalination Facility in Western Hemisphere

Israel Desalination Engineering to develop Harbor Island Desalination Project for Nueces River Authority, bringing 100M gallons of water per day to South Texas

https://t.co/Trjz48YfU2

[Amanda Drane 🦋 @AmandaDrane]

A thirsty AI boom is colliding with an oil industry wastewater crisis. Texas leaders and industry increasingly see each problem as the solution to the other. w/@RebekahFWard @HoustonChron https://t.co/6jjm0ywV7e

[Megan Kimble @megankimble]

Cornyn and Paxton spent more than $30M ahead of Tuesday’s runoff. How much did it cost for each vote? Read my latest in @HoustonChron https://t.co/CSD5lvwxmE

[Yaffa Fredrick @yaffanyc]

Want to join the largest investigative reporting team in Texas? Now's your chance. I'm hiring an investigative reporter at the @HoustonChron who is ready to dive in, move fast and hold some powerful people to account. https://t.co/5C9vsmHNxb

[Dylan Baddour @DylanBaddour]

Bill to block out-of-state water sales advances in Louisiana

Last year a state agency backed off plans to sell reservoir water to Texas, again, after outcry

The Sabine River Authority has been trying to sell water to Texas for 20 years

https://t.co/1UdQPNaDL9

[Megan Kimble @megankimble]

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: As Corpus Christi's water crisis deepens, the state water board, appointed by Gov. Greg Abbott, denies funding for offshore desalination plant https://t.co/Sgj9WSBWra

[Megan Kimble @megankimble]

Before he died, my dad (a Floydada-born quantum physicist) was a member of the Philosophical Society of Texas. When he was inducted in Dallas, George W. and Laura Bush came to speak. I am forever a proud daughter. Loved this @TexasMonthly story https://t.co/J2lXsC3Xkt

[Megan Kimble @megankimble]

@HoustonChron @ExpressNews @matt_zdun @taygoldenstein & @baylisswagner profiled state Rep. Brian Harrison, a Dallas-area Republican who who gained an avid following outside the Capitol by waging social media campaigns against officials and institutions he deemed too liberal https://t.co/qnYl9NUdlU

[Megan Kimble @megankimble]

🧵Last year @matt_zdun and I wrote about how the Texas Apartment Association wields influence in the legislature & shapes policy in favor of landlords. Today it won 1st place in the national @HeadlinerAwards, along with reporting by my colleagues @baylisswagner @taygoldenstein!!

[Megan Kimble @megankimble]

@HoustonChron @ExpressNews @matt_zdun .@taygoldenstein on how Texas campaign finance laws allow former officeholders to hang onto their campaign funds in perpetuity and spend money on donations to favored charities and politicians, travel & dining. https://t.co/QVEA6KPOpT

[Bayliss Wagner @baylisswagner]

Very excited to have won 1st place for political coverage with my current + former Austin bureau colleagues @taygoldenstein, @megankimble & @matt_zdun in the National @HeadlinerAwards!

Our winning #txlege story package is linked here: https://t.co/ip4M7CL7TN

[Houston Chronicle @HoustonChron]

The city's residents and massive petrochemical industry could soon be forced to cut water use by as much as 25% amid an historic drought. https://t.co/DS5ifUZsL2

[Megan Kimble @megankimble]

Corpus Christi’s residents and massive petrochemical industry could soon be forced to cut water use by as much as 25% amid an historic drought. New from me in @HoustonChron
https://t.co/ei4bkaHmwU

[Jacquiline Romero @sinag_jacq]

After a talk, someone asked Jeff Kimble, "If you can come back to life 100 years from now, what would be your first question?". Jeff's answer was, "How's my family?"—probably not what most were expecting. He had science questions too, but those ones I forgot. Vale, Jeff Kimble.

[Megan Kimble @megankimble]

This @NewYorker piece pulls heavily from my reporting in @HoustonChron Here's the original story! https://t.co/vmGcyhF2rT

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Texas shows what future water wars could bring, Rachel Monroe writes: “agriculture pitted against industry pitted against municipalities; the wetter parts of the states fighting to protect ‘their’ water from thirsty and fast-growing cities.” https://t.co/VYcv1i03PM

[Megan Kimble @megankimble]

Friday morning at #tribfest — let’s talk transit!

[Isaac Yu @isaacyu_]

She's done it again: @megankimble's story is interesting and accessible even to people who don't pay property taxes. Give it a read!