Texas voters have picked the agriculture commissioner for more than a century. But is that a good idea in a state almost 90 percent urban? 

Greg Abbott readily took on the mantle of governor-elect on Wednesday while others searched for the reason for the Wendy Davis implosion in the governor's race.

That was fast. Just hours after Denton residents voted to ban hydraulic fracturing, the state’s General Land Office and biggest petroleum group filed legal challenges to the new rule.

In this week's edition of the Trib+Water newsletter: San Antonio approves a controversial water pipeline, McAllen looks to geothermal wells for water and an interview with Francine Sanders Romero, associate dean at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

As the night lengthened on Tuesday, the real contest, it seemed, was to find a fitting description as to how thoroughly Democrats were taken to the woodshed both in Texas and nationally.

Denton on Tuesday became the state’s first city to ban hydraulic fracturing, setting up a high-profile property clash likely to be fought in courtrooms and the Legislature.