April 2012 - The Texas Observer

Most Recent in Politics:

1Is Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner Headed for a Second Term?

2Joe Barton Resurfaces with a Blueprint for How to Bail Out the Oil Industry and Worsen Climate Change

3‘Almost Akin to a Political Coup’: Houston Teachers Fight Back Against State Takeover of HISD

4On Rodney Reed Case, Greg Abbott Gets a Political Reprieve

5John Cornyn’s Weaselly Immigration Record

6Texas Congressional Candidate Shannon Hutcheson Defended Corporations Against the Vulnerable. EMILY’s List Endorsed Her Anyway.

Most Recent in Environment:

1Bald Eagle Numbers at Lake Buchanan Are Declining. No One’s Exactly Sure Why.

2How Katharine Hayhoe Stays Hopeful as the Planet Warms

3As Port Neches Plant Smolders, Trump Rolls Back Safety Rules for Chemical Plants

4Joe Barton Resurfaces with a Blueprint for How to Bail Out the Oil Industry and Worsen Climate Change

5East Texas Rivers Could Become a Boiling Pot for Mussels

6The Long Battle to Stop the Kinder Morgan Pipeline

Most Recent in Border:

1A World Without Immigrant Prisons

2‘We Build the Wall’ Lands in South Texas, Vilifies Priest and Butterfly Refuge

3John Cornyn’s Weaselly Immigration Record

4Activists Rally for the Closure of Hutto Detention Center as Private Contract Rumors Swirl

5When ICE Emptied Out an All-Women Detention Center in Texas, Chaos Ensued

6The Fear—and Hope—of Living in Sanctuary

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1A Top Cop Accused of Racism Forces Austin to Confront Bias in Law Enforcement

2Why I Started a Book Club in the Harris County Jail

3Texas’ Method for Funding Courts is a Colossal Waste of Time and Money

4On Rodney Reed Case, Greg Abbott Gets a Political Reprieve

5Having My Period in Prison Was Awful. In Texas, That May Finally Change.

6The Movement to Free Rodney Reed Illustrates the Growing Unease Over Texas’ Use of the Death Penalty

Most Recent in Education:

1‘Almost Akin to a Political Coup’: Houston Teachers Fight Back Against State Takeover of HISD

2The Creature of Martin Creek Lake Won’t Die

3The Cost of Carve-Outs

4Texas Legislature Improves Suicide Prevention in Schools, but Makes Little Progress for Adults

5Texas House Considers Free College For Students Experiencing Homelessness

6‘The Wolf is in the Henhouse’

Most Recent in Health Care:

1Everyone Wants to End Surprise Medical Billing in Texas, but No One Wants to Pay for It

2The Last Nurse in Memphis, Texas

3The Rural Health Care Crisis, Mapped

4Driving My Life Away

5Scenes from a Rural Hospital’s Final Day

6State Investigators Identify ‘Serious Contractual Violations’ by the Heidi Group

Most Recent in The Interview:

1How Katharine Hayhoe Stays Hopeful as the Planet Warms

2Author William Lopez on How Immigration Raids Inflict Long-Lasting Trauma

3Why a Texas Gun Control Activist is Optimistic About the Chances for Reform

4American Health Care is Broken, Especially in Texas. What Can We Do About It?

5Thousands of Rape Kits in Texas Went Untested For Years. Lavinia Masters Is Ending That.

6Floodplain Maps Are Outdated. This Scientist Wants to Change That.

Most Recent in Books:

1A World Without Immigrant Prisons

2Two New Books Explore the Limits of the #MeToo Movement in Texas and Beyond

3I’ve Lived in East Austin for 60 Years, and I Don’t Recognize it Anymore

4American Cities Weren’t Revitalized by the White ‘Creative Class.’ Immigrants Made Them Great.

5Short Story Contest Winner: ‘Dear Mr. Gottlieb’

6Author William Lopez on How Immigration Raids Inflict Long-Lasting Trauma

Most Recent in Features:

1The Ghosts of Jefferson

2Little Arthouse on the Prairie

3The Clothes that Make the Man

4Washington Crossing the Rio Grande

5Ghosts of the Baker Hotel

6At Home in the World

Most Recent in Essay:

1Why I Started a Book Club in the Harris County Jail

2A Chain Reaction

3Having My Period in Prison Was Awful. In Texas, That May Finally Change.

4Up From the Desert

5To Understand the El Paso Massacre, Look to the Long Legacy of Anti-Mexican Violence at the Border

6Lost in Limbo in the Hays County Jail

Most Recent in Eye on Texas:

1Eye on Texas: The Broken Wheel Ranch Project

2Eye on Texas: Spike Johnston

3Eye on Texas: Loren Elliott

4Eye on Texas: Charlotte Moore

5Eye on Texas: ‘My Joyful Dance’

6Eye on Texas: Ghosts of the City

Most Recent in Poetry:

1Author Saeed Jones on Empathy, the Power of Memoir, and Growing up Gay in North Texas

2Remembering W.S. Merwin, Honorary Texan

3Lost in Limbo in the Hays County Jail

4Houston Poet Analicia Sotelo’s Debut Smashes Latino Stereotypes

5Parallel Planes

6Options

The Magazine: April 2012

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In this Issue

Political Intelligence

Jumping the Loan Sharks

by Christopher Hooks

News

The Waiting Game

by John Savage

Reckoning With Rosie

by Alexa Garcia-Ditta

The Things They Left Behind

by Jen Reel

CULTURE

Epitaph for an Alligator

by Asher Elbein

‘Kingdom of Shadows,’ Where Money, Corruption and Terror Join Forces

by Josh Rosenblatt

Columns

Texas Lawmakers Aren’t Actually Supposed to Try to Make Things Worse, Right?

by Andrea Grimes

State of Texas

Texas Abortion Clinics: Safe, Legal and Increasingly Rare

by Alexa Garcia-Ditta

Loon Star State

by Ben Sargent

Eye on Texas

Eye on Texas: Unyielding Texas

by Guillermo Hernandez Martinez

The Fight For Sugar Hill, Collin County

by Melanie Burford

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