The second year of a pandemic. The January 6 riot at the capitol, with all its Texans. The failure of the electric grid. The passage of an abortion ban and restrictive voting bill. The return of the Austin City Limits Music Festival, and the Astroworld Festival disaster. The news cycle was relentless in Texas this year, and while we at Texas Monthly kept atop it, there was plenty of great writing and reporting on our state, and its inhabitants, to go around. Here are fourteen stories that other outlets published that inspired our jealousy.“Gina. Rosanne. Guy,” Kerry Howley, New York MagazineMuch has been written about the insurrectionists who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6 and what led them to so brazenly participate in an…The post Stories We Wish We’d Published This Year appeared first on Texas Monthly.