There wouldn't be a Texas Tribune without Texas Monthly, because there wouldn't be a me without Texas Monthly. I'm referring, of course, to the award-winning 40-year-old statewide glossy where I and so many other journalists in and out of Texas were lucky enough to learn to ply our trade. I logged nearly 18 years at what its founder, Mike Levy, long ago christened "a great magazine" — the sign still hangs outside the front door — and had it not been for the immensely productive and rewarding time I spent there, I wouldn't have had the moxie and ...

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