The Mayor & The Mogul
Bill White and Farouk Shami on why they're running for governor—and how they'd shake up Texas.
On Dec. 4, the day that three-term Houston mayor Bill White jumped into the race for governor, many Texas Democrats started dreaming big.
Their perfect scenario goes like this: Gov. Rick Perry and Sen. Kay…
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Conversion Story
How Bryan's Planned Parenthood director became a pro-life celebrity.
Abby Johnson was the 29-year-old executive director of Planned Parenthood in Bryan when she resigned in October. A month later, she was on Mike Huckabee's FOX News show explaining why she had joined the Coalition…
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All Walled Up
How Brownsville's battle against the federal government's border fence ended in defeat and disillusionment.
In the early spring of 2008, the uniformed Border Patrol officers delivering condemnation notices door-to-door seemed surprised by the defiance they met from Brownsville landowners. The first time the officers came, it was with clipboards…
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Gone Baby Gone
The shocking case of Otty Sanchez exposes the holes in Texas' mental health care system.
The first police officers at the crime scene were so shocked they could barely speak. When they arrived at the white-paneled house on San Antonio's north side at 5 a.m. on July 26, officers found…
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Child X-ing
Del Rio's controversial crackdown on border-crossing students.
At first it looked like business as usual in the early morning hours of Wednesday, Sept. 9. The line of cars on the Del Rio International Toll Bridge stretched back toward Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, as…
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