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Most Recent in Politics:

1This Week: Texans’ Health Under Attack by Republican Lawmakers

2Who Really Gets Government Benefits In Texas?

3Lo que Necesitas Saber sobre la Batalla Legal de SB 4

4How the Texas Legislature Reached a Dangerous Stalemate on Vaccines

5Is Competence Enough? Mike Collier is Counting on it in Race Against Dan Patrick

6How Texas’ Anti-Abortion Lawmakers Win Even While Losing in Court

Most Recent in Environment:

1Getting Wise to Bad Air: North Texans Take Smog Monitoring Into Own Hands

2Mean to Green: How the Texas Legislature Took its Toll on the Environment This Session

3Governor Abbott’s Beef with Tree Ordinances Has Its Roots in a Pecan Tree He Destroyed to Build a New Home

4After 17 Years, EPA Settles Racial Discrimination Case Against TCEQ

5Texans Could Soon Be Jailed for Flying Drones over Oil Facilities, Animal Factory Farms

6Endangered Science

Most Recent in Border:

1Lo que Necesitas Saber sobre la Batalla Legal de SB 4

2What You Need to Know About the SB 4 Legal Battle

3After Five Years in Exile, Mexican Journalist Fears He’ll Never Be Able to Go Home

4Both Sides of the U.S.-Mexico Border Want to Renegotiate NAFTA

5Attorneys Who Halted Trump’s Travel Ban Will Take on Senate Bill 4

6Photos: SB 4 Protesters Flood Capitol to Jump-Start ‘Summer of Resistance’

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1Attorney: Matt Rinaldi’s Call to ICE Will Likely Be Used Against SB 4 in Lawsuit

2Indicted Senator Carlos Uresti Exchanged Campaign Funds with Alleged Co-Conspirators

3Texas Republican Called ICE on SB 4 Protesters, Threatened to Shoot Colleague

43 A.M. ‘Sanctuary’ Protest at Governor Abbott’s Mansion Blares Mariachi Music

5Texans Could Soon Be Jailed for Flying Drones over Oil Facilities, Animal Factory Farms

6Texas Bill Could Send People to Jail for Driving a Woman to an Abortion, Lawmaker Says

Most Recent in Education:

1After Freedom Caucus Kills Her Legislation, Lawmaker Announces Anti-‘Lunch Shaming’ Campaign

2Texas’ ‘Lunch Shaming’ Problem and the Fight to Fix It

3CPS Caseworker: Lawmakers Are ‘Shifting the Blame’ by Privatizing Child Welfare System

4‘Academic Freedom’ Bill Provides Cover to Teach Creationism, Climate Denial in Classrooms

5‘Another Book, Another Month, Another Day Closer to You’

6Dan Patrick Offers Vouchers as Solution to Special Ed Failures that He Helped Create

Most Recent in Health Care:

1This Week: Texans’ Health Under Attack by Republican Lawmakers

2Who Really Gets Government Benefits In Texas?

3How the Texas Legislature Reached a Dangerous Stalemate on Vaccines

4Getting Wise to Bad Air: North Texans Take Smog Monitoring Into Own Hands

5How Texas’ Anti-Abortion Lawmakers Win Even While Losing in Court

6Governor Greg Abbott Vetoes Women’s Health Committee Despite Ongoing Crises

Most Recent in The Interview:

1The Interview: Joaquin Castro Says Texas Democrats are Poised for a Comeback

2The Interview: Beto O’Rourke on Trump, the Border and How to Revive the Democratic Party

3The Interview: Tom ‘Smitty’ Smith

4The Interview: Lupe Valdez

5The Interview: Paul Quinn College’s Michael Sorrell

6The Interview: Judge John Dietz on Texas’ School Finance Crisis

Most Recent in Books:

1‘The Potlikker Papers’ Wants You to Eat Your Grits with a Side of Discomfort

2We Were the Safety Net

3‘Cornyation’ Celebrates San Antonio’s Most Fabulous Fiesta Tradition

4Valeria Luiselli’s ‘Tell Me How It Ends’ Is the First Must-Read Book of the Trump Era

5In the Age of Trump, the First All-Latino Sci-Fi Anthology Hits too Close to Home

6In ‘Blue Texas,’ a Historical Blueprint for Texas Activists

Most Recent in Postcards:

5Feathering Their Nest

6The Business of Burying Horses

Most Recent in Essay:

1Going It Alone

2The Observer’s Founding Editor: ‘Bring the Fight Back’ to Texas Politics

3A Texan’s Political Guide to Resisting Trump

4The Resistance Against Donald Trump Begins in Texas

5What a 1940 Novel Can Teach Us About Fighting Trump

6A Single Mom’s Search for ‘School Choice’ in Texas

Most Recent in Eye on Texas:

1Eye on Texas: Runners Take on 170-Mile Race in Big Bend

2Eye on Texas: Liberty Hill Hosts Texas Firearms Festival

3Eye on Texas: TX Open Swim

4Eye on Texas: Blessing of the Hands in San Antonio

5Eye on Texas: Austin’s Chapels

6Eye on Texas: Portico Tejas

Most Recent in Poetry:

2Poem: ‘Resistance’

3Poem: ‘Screenplay for a Homemade Movie’

4Poem: ‘To Be One with the All’

5Poem: ‘Whitewashing’

6Poem: ‘Rice and Beans’

Floor Play

Open Season on Public Schools During Voucher Debate

by John Savage | Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 19:14 CST

Dan Huberty

Enough is Enough: Texas Lawmakers Consider More Limits to Standardized Testing

Wed, Mar 25, 2015 |

Two years after scaling back high school testing, Texas lawmakers are considering more cuts to elementary tests, and studying whether the tests are worthwhile....Read More

A portion of the San Jacinto River Waste Pits site, near the Interstate 10 bridge in Harris County, remains visible as the sandy area in the center left of this photograph.

by Forrest Wilder

Bill Would Throttle Local Government’s Ability to Sue Polluters

Tue, Mar 17, 2015 |

In another fight over local control this session, state Rep. Charlie Geren (R-Fort Worth), one of the more powerful lawmakers in the House, is pushing a bill th...Read More

by Alisa Semiens

Report: Texas Prosecutes More Truancy Cases Than All Other States Combined

Thu, Mar 5, 2015 |

A new report by Texas Appleseed finds Texas prosecutes kids for truancy twice as often as all other states combined, targeting minorities....Read More

Donna Campbell Battles to Protect the Alamo from Foreign Control

Tue, Feb 24, 2015 |

On this day in 1836, a group of Texians battled to save the Alamo from an invading foreign force. They lost. Today, 179 years later, Sen. Donna Campbell (R-N...Read More

by Forrest Wilder

Senate Committee Votes Out Legislation Limiting Citizen Challenges to Polluters

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Tue, Apr 16, 2013 |

It's never been easy fighting powerful polluters in Texas. A bill approved by a Senate committee today would make it even harder....Read More

Hot List: Day 92 of the Legislature

Leave a comment | Tue, Apr 9, 2013

Senator Dan Patrick (R-Houston) is one of several senators pushing for school choice and lauding it as the "civil rights issue of our time." Expect to see bigge...Read More

Hot List: Day 56 of the Legislature

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Mon, Mar 4, 2013 |

Senate Finance committee chair Senator Tommy Williams (R-The Woodlands) said they’re shooting to get the bill out of committee by next Wednesday....Read More

Lawmakers Hope to Bring Stability to Eagle Ford Shale Boomtowns

Leave a comment | Thu, Feb 7, 2013

The Eagle Ford Shale legislative caucus met for the first time to discuss the economic impact of the oil and gas industry in South Texas....Read More

Hot List: Day 23 of the Legislature

Leave a comment | Wed, Jan 30, 2013

The Lead: Gov. Rick Perry gave his State of the State address on Tuesday, which followed the usual trend: Perry claimed credit for the health of the Texas econo...Read More

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