Laura Burke

  • Building Little Baghdad

    On a rainy January night, Amira Matsuda shuffles to the front door of her opulent home in Plano and invites me in for dinner. [...] Full Story

  • Ted and Betty Dotts

    Lubbock is not gay-friendly. A few years ago, when some straight high school kids tried to support some gay kids by forming a Gay-Straight [...] Full Story

  • Blood and Treasure

    Texans have paid dearly for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The highest cost is tallied in casualties. As this issue went to press, [...] Full Story

  • What Did He Die For?

    Men in work boots laid their cowboy hats on the floor and snuggled beside prim women and impeccably suited Marines at the First Baptist [...] Full Story

  • The Burden of Proof

    It was an unusual beginning to a love story.  James Legate was five years into a life sentence for murder. Yolanda Garcia, a 59-year-old [...] Full Story

  • Freedom’s Just a Word

    Photos by Lance Rosenfield/Prime Former inmates board buses to Dallas and Houston after being released from the Walls Unit in Huntsville. Every morning at [...] Full Story

  • UT’s Dirty Investments

    While many universities have stopped investing in companies that do business in Sudan, the University of Texas still invests millions of dollars in the [...] Full Story

  • A Threat To Society

    Hear Laura Burke’s interview with Texas Public Radio KSTX 98.1. Off of a dead-end street in the lush woodlands of East Texas, Chris Cain [...] Full Story

  • The Families’ Advocate

    Texas incarcerates more of its residents than any other state. Most of them are people of color. In Houston, Tarsha Jackson, an organizer with [...] Full Story