- How Price of Oil Affects the Budget – Kate Galbraith, Texas Tribune
- How To make Austin the next Silicon Valley – Richard Miller, Austin American-Statesman
- West Texas becomes ever more lonely as population drops – Jeannie Kever, Houston Chronicle
- 105-year-old Texas cowboy loses houses to wildfire – AP
- Texas drivers: Get ready to crank it up to 75 mph on divided highways – Terrence Stutz, Trail Blazers Blog
- Home Plates – June Naylor, Katharyn Rodemann and Patricia Sharpe, Texas Monthly
- R.I.P. Texas Wheat – Ronnie Crocker, Houston Chronicle
- Game will be called The Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas – David Barron and Joseph Duarte, Houston Chronicle