Jake Bernstein
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Jack Abramoff: Off the Reservations: an Observer Web-Only Feature
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Former Texas Observer Editor Wins Pulitzer Prize
Former Observer executive editor Jake Bernstein has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his collaboration with ProPublica’s Jesse Eisinger on a [...] Full Story -
Demographic Destiny
The fat man sidled up to the two children with an invite, his pitch a simple one. “I’m a fat man,” Gary Gibson said. [...] Full Story -
A Fish Rots from the Head
When all was said and little done, the gavels dropped, and adjournment let lawmakers escape from the political implosion that was the 80th Legislature. [...] Full Story -
Legislative Terror
The homeland security and border funding legislation passed during the regular session will rank among the most important state policy changes never publicly debated. [...] Full Story
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Houston, We Have Hope for Dems
This election cycle the Texas race for governor will dominate the lion’s share of media attention, both within the state and outside our borders?the [...] Full Story -
Don’t Drink the Water
When most Texans think about colonias, if they do at all, they probably envision squalid sun-bleached border communities marked by dirt roads and sewage-filled [...] Full Story -
Winds of Change
As I write these words, Hurricane Wilma has just walloped South Florida. Jaded Floridians who anticipated a Category 1 on the Saffir-Simpson scale with [...] Full Story -
Bench Play
Early in the morning of October 3, President George W. Bush nominated his White House counsel, Harriet Miers, to replace Sandra Day O’Connor on [...] Full Story -
Tommy and the $190,000
What could turn out to be the most important meeting in Tom DeLay’s career started at 10:15 a.m. on October 2, 2002. The Sugar [...] Full Story