Wes Ferguson

Most Recent in Politics:

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3Could Private Prison Cash Become a Liability for Texas Democrats?

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6No Resolution in Sight For Ranchers and Farmers Fighting Over San Saba River

Most Recent in Border:

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2‘Recipe for Disaster’: New Family Detention Center Could Open in South Texas

3Loon Star: Due Process

4The Trump Administration Deported up to 12 Parents Without Their Very Young Children

5Despite Protests, Willacy County Forges Ahead with Resurrection of Notorious Immigrant Detention Center

6The Trump Administration’s Own Numbers Show ‘Zero Tolerance’ Didn’t Work

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

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2College Degree Options Are Disappearing for Women in Texas Prisons

3After Years of Working with ‘Ritmo’ Detainees, I Know the Inhumane Facility Doesn’t Deserve a Second Chance

4Williamson County Votes to End Contract with Detention Facility Holding Separated Mothers

5Texas Officials Allow 15 Immigrant Shelters to Hold More Kids than Licenses Permit

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3SMU Just Lost Its Independent Student Newspaper. Is Your College Next?

4Lawsuit: Texas Art Teacher Suspended Because She Told Students About Her Wife

5Texas Teachers ‘Blow the Whistle’ After Conservatives Accuse Them of (Gasp!) Getting out the Vote

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4‘We Love Our Neighbors, but It’s a Sin’: A Dispatch from a ‘Sex Ed Sitout’

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4Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo on Sanctuary Cities, Police Unions and Tommy Guns

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Most Recent in Books:

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6The Impossible City

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Wes Ferguson

Kilgore's Wes Ferguson is working on a book about the Blanco River.

By Wes Ferguson:

Stories

The Unseen Sabine River

by Wes Ferguson | Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 1:02 pm CST

Hands on a Hardbody, a musical adaptation of the cult-classic documentary film, ran at San Diego’s La Jolla Playhouse in a production directed by Neil Pepe last summer.

Culture

A Hard Body, Repossessed

Wed, Jan 16, 2013 |

Hands on a Hardbody, a musical adapted from the hard-to-find 1997 documentary Hands on a Hard Body, is set to open on Broadway March 21, following a seven-week run last spring at the La Jolla Playhouse in California. Read More

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