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Field Goal

Paul Quinn College turns a football field into a farm to end a food desert.

by Janet Heimlich
Work study students (left to right) Christina Mason, Ronisha Isham and Desirae Burks harvest mustard greens from the farm.
The football games ended years ago at Paul Quinn College. The Tigers’ purple jerseys were packed away, marking the conclusion of a tradition that dated back almost a century. In 2006, the football program was… Read more

We're Not Gonna Take It

Texas' starving school districts lawyer up for (another) epic battle for survival

by Patrick Michels
We're Not Gonna Take It
All is not well in Texas schools. After billions in cuts and tens of thousands of teachers laid off, students now cram into overcrowded classrooms across the state. Field trips are canceled, and lunch is… Read more

Occupy Houston’s Second Act

The movement takes its next phase to a new neighborhood.

by Emily DePrang
Occupy Houston member Frank E. Perron III, 26.
Behind a chain-link fence in Houston’s Fourth Ward, on the ground floor of a ramshackle duplex, revolution is fomenting. Scott Gregory, a 25-year-old substitute teacher, gestures to two pairs of sneakers by the front door… Read more

Oops: Rick Perry's Top 10 Gaffes

by Texas Observer Staff
Oops: Rick Perry's Top 10 Gaffes
The Texas Observer staff recounts our favorite Perry "oops" moments in this slideshow. Click here to view it.  Read more

Bankrupt American Airlines Can't Get Off the Ground — But Don't Blame Its Employees

by Paul Sweeney
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I like Alec Baldwin, I honestly do. He’s a skilled, accomplished actor, someone who truly inhabits a role. If you haven’t seen his lacerating salesman’s speech (“It takes brass balls to sell real estate”) in… Read more
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    Max Elliot has the farming bug, and hopes to pass it on to young people in Austin. Elliot is one of the founders of Urban… Growing Urban Farmers

  • Failed States: Embedding in the War on Terror
    by Jill Magid

    Failed States: Embedding in the War on Terror On Jan. 21, 2010, Jill Magid was in Austin researching snipers when she decided to visit the state Capitol. That was the day Fausto Cardenas fired a handgun into the air six times on the Capitol steps. State troopers quickly subdued the 24-year-old man from Houston. Magid witnessed the incident… Read more...





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