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Most Recent in Politics:

1Parents: Schools Using Transgender Suit As Cover to Discriminate

2The Texas Miracle #24: Rick Perry’s Last Dance

3Hooks: Dems are Missing Their Chance to Give Obama His Transformational Legacy

4Loon Star State: Unemployment Benefits

5Paxton: ‘No Evidence’ Obama’s Clean Power Plan Will Mitigate Climate Change

6Texas Association of Business Comes Out Against Anti-Trans ‘Bathroom Bills’

Most Recent in Environment:

1Paxton: ‘No Evidence’ Obama’s Clean Power Plan Will Mitigate Climate Change

2Once Again, School District Shuts Down Tax Break for Gas Exporter

3Feeling the Burn in Big Bend

4Outgoing State Rep. Jim Keffer on Trump, Climate Change and Being a Tea Party Target

5The Texas Miracle #22: Dancing with the Snark (and Rick Perry)

6Climate Science ‘Skeptic’ Lamar Smith Claims to Aid Scientists in Latest Crusade

Most Recent in Border:

1Eddie Canales on Saving Migrant Lives in Brooks County

2Report: Mexico’s Border Crackdown Sends Migrants into Dangerous Territory

3Hundreds Gather to Remember the 1966 Texas Farmworkers’ March

4In Texas, Trump Signals a Plan for Victory in Defeat

5Trump Takes Texas, in Photos

6Texas Relents on Birth Certificates for Children of Undocumented Immigrants

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1South Texas School Security Guard Arrested After Allegedly Throwing Girl to Ground

2Lege Hearing Gets Tense Over Racial Profiling

3Texas Judge Dismisses Trans Prisoner’s Lawsuit Seeking Gender Confirmation Surgery

4Citing Observer Report, Senators Vow Stronger Protection for Texans Under Guardianship

5Texas Activists Protest Modern-Day ‘Slavery’ in Prisons

6How a Tiny ‘Startup’ in Houston ISD is Reinventing Discipline for Thousands of Students

Most Recent in Education:

1Parents: Schools Using Transgender Suit As Cover to Discriminate

2South Texas School Security Guard Arrested After Allegedly Throwing Girl to Ground

3Hostile Takeover

4Once Again, School District Shuts Down Tax Break for Gas Exporter

5First School District Set to Join Parents’ Lawsuit Over STAAR

6Dallas ISD Considers Ending Suspensions for Young Students

Most Recent in Health Care:

1The Texas Miracle #23: She Fought the Law — and the Law Lost

2The Texas Miracle #22: Dancing with the Snark (and Rick Perry)

3Op-Ed: Abortion Access and Trans Health Care Are Bound Together in Texas

4Crisis Pregnancy Center Among Texas Repro Health Contractors

5Oil and Gas Smog Projected to Cause 140,000 Asthma Attacks in Kids

6The Texas Miracle #18: Our Best 40 Minutes (So Far)

Most Recent in The Interview:

1The Interview: Paul Quinn College’s Michael Sorrell

2The Interview: Judge John Dietz on Texas’ School Finance Crisis

3The Interview: Frank Jackson

4The Interview: Cecile Richards

5The Interview: Anthony Graves

6The Interview: Elliott Naishtat

Most Recent in Books:

1All the Wrong Moves

2In ‘Houston on the Move,’ the Bayou City Wakes Up

3Good as Gone Treats Women Mysteriously Like People

4Meet the Texas Scholar Who Unearthed Walt Whitman’s 19th Century Clickbait

5Send Us Your Stories, Writers

6Hiking the Keystone XL Pipeline and Hoping for Dialogue

Most Recent in Postcards:

2Feathering Their Nest

3The Business of Burying Horses

4Fragile Species

5Rotten Apples in Donna ISD

6Holding Back the Flood

Most Recent in Essay:

1How Ali Inspired a Generation of Chicano Activists

2David Bowie in Aztlán

3The 66 Percent: Erasing Mexican Americans in the United States

4The New Migrants

5How the 1% Gardens

6Our Blue Period

Most Recent in Eye on Texas:

1Eye on Texas: TX Open Swim

2Eye on Texas: Blessing of the Hands in San Antonio

3Eye on Texas: Austin’s Chapels

4Eye on Texas: Portico Tejas

5Eye on Texas: Xiomara, a Domestic Worker Who’s ‘Invisible in Austin’

6Eye on Texas: Uncertain, Texas

Most Recent in Poetry:

1Poem: ‘Whitewashing’

2Poem: ‘Rice and Beans’

3Poem: ‘I Could Have a Thousand Husbands’

4Poem: Aleppo Oslo Jos Boston

5Poem: ‘Poets And Antidepressants’

6Poem: ‘While I Was Trying to Avoid Falling in Love’

Big Beat

The Unnecessary Expense of Immigrant Detention

by Cindy Casares | Fri, May 11, 2012 at 14:48 CST

Can Hinojosa Revive Texas Democrats?

by Cindy Casares

Leave a comment | Mon, Jun 18, 2012

At the Texas Democratic Convention in Houston in early June, Gilberto Hinojosa of Brownsville, a former Cameron County judge and county Democratic chairman, was...Read More

Doggett-Romo Race a Tough Choice for Latinos

by Cindy Casares

Leave a comment | Mon, May 28, 2012

This year’s Democratic primary race for Congressional District 35, predicted to come down to long-time Congressman Lloyd Doggett and Bexar County Tax Assessor...Read More

Coverage of Changing Texas Schools Ignores the Racist Elephant in the Room

by Cindy Casares

Leave a comment | Thu, May 17, 2012

Last week, the San Antonio Express-News did a piece on the changing face of Texas schools. It seems the system has gotten noticeably browner and poorer and now ...Read More

More Evidence of Fast-and-Furious-Type Program in Texas

by Cindy Casares

Leave a comment | Fri, May 11, 2012

It sure seems like there was gun-walking going on in Texas, and yet U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder won’t answer any questions about it. The fourth member o...Read More

What I learned at The Daily Texan Panel on Racial Sensitivity

by Cindy Casares

Leave a comment | Wed, May 2, 2012

I recently attended a panel at The Daily Texan offices where some University of Texas educators and I had a conversation with the Texan staff of student reporte...Read More

Willie Nelson Statue Unveiled at 4:20 on 4/20, Also Pot

by Cindy Casares

Leave a comment | Sat, Apr 21, 2012

I just got back from the dedication of a statue of Willie Nelson from non-profit Capital Area Statues to the City of Austin. The Theme was “4/20.” For the u...Read More

Petition Launched To Reinstate Trayvon Martin Cartoonist Stephanie Eisner At Daily Texan

by Cindy Casares

Leave a comment | Thu, Apr 5, 2012

Stephanie Eisner—a cartoonist at The Daily Texan fired because of an incendiary cartoon she drew last week depicting the killing of unarmed Florida teen Trayv...Read More

Monument Unveils Tejano Legacy

by Cindy Casares

Leave a comment | Fri, Mar 30, 2012

I attended the unveiling of the Tejano Monument at the Texas State Capitol on Thursday. Seated in front of a crowd of hundreds on the South Lawn were dignitarie...Read More

Stephanie Eisner and the Case of the Racist Trayvon Martin Cartoon

by Cindy Casares

Leave a comment | Wed, Mar 28, 2012

On Tuesday, University of Texas student newspaper, The Daily Texan, published a political cartoon on the topic of Trayvon Martin and yellow journalism. The imag...Read More

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