The Coal Front Despite reports to the contrary, Big Coal is alive and well in Texas. The coal-burning power plant that ranchers Robert and [...]

You hold in your hands the final 2007 issue of The Texas Observer. As is our tradition, we won’t publish in late December, instead [...]

POWER OF THE PEN The article, “Give Me Shelter” (November 16) by Andrew Papke, is amazing. This story should be required reading in every [...]

This article has been updated. U.S. Sen. John Cornyn was eligible for the draft during the Vietnam war, though he did not serve. Last [...]

For more than a decade, Waste Control Specialists has had big plans for a desolate corner of the West Texas oil patch near Andrews [...]