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Table of Contents | Vol. 101, No. 13
- Features
- Status Woe
- Two state agencies needed big reforms; lawmakers did nothing.
- by Melissa del Bosque and Dave Mann
- No Green Sweep
- How high hopes for environmental progress were dashed.
- by Forrest Wilder and Susan Peterson
- Five Days of Chub
- Your Legislature at work.
- by Reeve Hamilton
- State Schooled
- Lawmakers finally approved long-overdue reforms of institutions for the mentally disabled—because they had to.
- by Dave Mann
- The Republican from La Mancha
- Another frustrating session for the Don Quixote of the Texas Senate.
- by Reeve Hamilton
- Reconstruction
- Can legislative action repair the troubled Department of Public Safety?
- by Victoria Rossi
- Snuffed
- How Big Tobacco fended off a statewide smoking ban.
- by Melissa del Bosque
- Out of the Box
- Is it time for Texas to have a full-time Legislature?
- by Sen. Dan Patrick
- Un-Covered
- Where did all the Capitol reporters go—and what happens without them?
- by Bill Minutaglio
- Bad(dest) Bills
- by Texas Observer Staff
- The People’s Friends and Foes
- Legislators who worked for—and against—the people's interests.
- by Texas Observer Staff
- Departments
- Dialogue
- Letters to the Editors
- Editorial
- The Lost Lege of 2009
- by Bob Moser
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- Books & the Culture
- Back of the Book
- Jerky Boy
- by Brad Tyer
- Dateline
- Dodging the Ditches at GM
- by Michael Hoinski
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