Unfinished history: Black Tyler’s long fight to change the name — and many other things — at Robert E. Lee High

Robert E. Lee High School, race, and segregation in Tyler: a 130-year timeline

“I can’t let the degree that I’ve worked so hard for go to waste”: a Tyler DACA student’s story

A foreclosure sign.

In Tyler, as in America, the wealth gap between blacks and whites is all about housing

The Tyler Loop’s Event Guide: Open taps, Molly Ivins, pizza night, and a Selena tribute

“I just want to help people feel better.” An undocumented Tyler nurse’s story

Where Tyler honors the Confederacy

“Deporting us is bad math”: an undocumented East Texan makes his case

What’s it really like to be an undocumented immigrant in East Texas?

Stay, or go? An undocumented Tyler schoolteacher faces a hard choice

A 1933 map of the East Texas Oil Field, by E.D. Ray. Published online by the Texas General Land Office.

Is Tyler’s economy really tied to oil booms and busts?

The Tyler Loop’s Weekly Picks for the Week of August 9th

The Tyler Loop’s Weekly Picks

Five Questions for Aristeo Rodriguez, the entrepreneurial music nerd behind El Guapo

A Tyler ordinance authorizing land acquisition.

How The Tyler Loop uses the Texas Public Information Act (and how you can, too)

Mayor Martin Heines talks to The Tyler Loop about race, downtown, and taxes

Tyler Loop Taco Tour: El Norteño

Here’s how the Republican healthcare bill would affect Tyler

These eight maps show how annexation shaped Tyler, from 1940 to today

The Tyler Loop Taco Tour: La Michoacana Meat Market

What does Texas’s anti-sanctuary cities law mean for undocumented East Texans — and for the rest of us?

As Tyler’s women become more educated, men fall behind

Louie Gohmert speaking at the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference.

Is Louie Gohmert unbeatable?

The Tyler Loop Taco Tour begins! First stop: Tacos Mexico

The story behind the mural at Stanley’s BBQ

Tyler’s traffic is as awful as you think it is (and we’ve got proof)

Where should we go on our taco tour of Tyler?

After 40 years of Hispanic growth, we’re now a majority-minority city

Tyler’s voter turnout is so low, 100 votes could swing an election

We’re going on a taco tour of Tyler!

Alan Lizarraga is a candidate for Tyler City Council in District 5.

Four local problems District 5 candidate Alan Lizarraga wants to fix

Has Tyler’s economic boom helped everyone? We crunched the numbers

Embark Women

A new group in town wants women entrepreneurs to fail — in a good way

After Trump, East Texas progressives are “coming out of the woodwork”

Tyler, Texas population growth by age group

You’re Not Imagining It: Tyler Is Getting Younger

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