Cowboy Economics
by Texas Observer Staff / Posted on | No CommentsIt’s always nice to get a compliment—but it’s even nicer when the compliment is true. Texas continues to be lauded as one of the [...]
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Bill White’s (Continuing) BJ Services Problem
by Forrest Wilder / Posted on | No CommentsUpdated with Bill White’s response (below) This morning 25 environmental and community groups called on the EPA and a congressional committee to investigate whether [...]
Read full postWelcome to Texas, Mr. Obama
by Bob Moser / Posted on | No CommentsOn the sunshiny morning of Nov. 22, 1963, the legend goes, John F. Kennedy awoke in Fort Worth in a grimly realistic humor. The [...]
Read full post“The Way America Is Supposed to Be”: Tea-Partiers Get Back to Basics at the Capitol
by Bob Moser / Posted on | No CommentsWhether it was the hundred-degree heat, or a hangover from all the recent hoo-ha over racist elements in the Tea Party movement, Saturday’s “Back [...]
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Backlash Grows Against BP’s Effort to ‘Buy Up’ Gulf Scientists
by Chris Kromm / Posted on | No CommentsFrom Facing South, the online magazine of the Institute for Southern Studies. On July 1, a video appeared on BP’s website featuring renegade scientist [...]
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