The 10 Best Observer Stories of 2016: ‘Just Like Every Other Kid’
Under attack from Texas politicians, trans kids and their parents talk back.
Since 1954
Forrest Wilder, a native of Wimberley, Texas, is the editor of the Observer. Forrest has appeared on Democracy Now!, The Rachel Maddow Show and numerous NPR stations. His work has been mentioned by The New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, Time magazine and many other state and national publications. Other than filing voluminous open records requests, Forrest enjoys fishing, kayaking, gardening and beer-league softball. He holds a bachelor's degree in anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin.
Under attack from Texas politicians, trans kids and their parents talk back.
Pamela Elliott was the new sheriff in town. But instead of law and order, she brought chaos.
How big business turned a Gulf Coast beach town into an industrial zone.
‘I Have a Name’ is an online visual database to help identify migrants who died crossing the Texas-Mexico border.
Today's GOP leaders aren't playing politics as usual. They're using abusive tactics to manipulate the public.
Texas prisons are filling up with the old and the ill — at enormous expense.
In the harsh post-2008 economy, builders like my father live on the road.
Texas counties have stripped thousands of elderly and disabled citizens of their rights — and then forgotten about them.
The price tag on a new public sculpture in San Antonio renews a 20-year debate over whether a city program creates art — or just controversy.
An attorney pieces together a life cut short.