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The state created “Texas Partnership” charter schools to turn around struggling public campuses, but an Observer investigation has uncovered numerous academic and financial issues.
Matthew Johnson was convicted of the 2012 murder of Nancy Harris in Dallas County.
“Due process hasn’t been protected. The process that is set in place in this country that is the basis and foundation of our legal system was not allowed to work.”
Local activists warn that while residents must ration, unimpeded industrial expansion is imperiling the region’s future.
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Stephen Harrigan explores his own Catholic boyhood in Texas—and the prophecy left behind by a Portuguese prophet girl—in a compelling new book.
The right-wing state rep has led an army of one on a self-righteous crusade in the Texas House.
Legislation to allow some forms of drug checking has reached the same Senate committee where a similar bill died last session—two years and at least 3,200 Texas overdose deaths ago.
Biennial promises of “relief” are just window dressing on a broken taxation system.
Expanding on last session’s anti-DEI campus crackdown, Republicans are now going after gender and ethnic studies programs and faculty independence.
Texas and the U.S.-El Salvador prison pipeline
“Before people start commenting on the border, come visit the border. Right now there’s nothing going on.”
The application of waivers and the interpretation of their scope has repeatedly expanded, such that border walls are now privileged over all potential legal constraints short of the U.S. Constitution.
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