February 2018 - The Texas Observer

Most Recent in Politics:

1Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez Enters the U.S. Senate Race

2Texas Is at the Center of Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Facebook Ad Campaign

3Dan Patrick’s Long History of Toxic Immigrant-Bashing

4Molly Ivins on Universal Health Care

5John Cornyn’s Democratic Challengers Feel a Little Familiar

6White Terror on the Border

Most Recent in Environment:

1Climate Change Will Drive Up Energy Use in Texas and Beyond

2The Butterfly Effect

3Can a $2.5 Billion Bond Deal Fix Harris County’s Inequitable Flood Control?

4Whiplash Weather in the Valley Brings Fears of Flood, Drought, and Wildfires

5If a Glacier Melts in the Arctic, the Texas Coast Feels It

6TCEQ Report Could Pave the Way for Chemical Plants to Emit More Hazardous Air Pollutants

Most Recent in Border:

1Customs and Border Protection Wants To Know What You Think About The Wall

2‘Even the Police Officers Were Laughing at Me’: Transgender Immigrants Share Their Experiences of Abuse and Neglect in Detention

3Nuevo Laredo Shelter Director Reportedly Kidnapped After Protecting Cuban Migrants

4Texas Is at the Center of Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Facebook Ad Campaign

5White Terror on the Border

6In Nuevo Laredo, Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ Program Feels Chaotic and Dangerous

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1‘A Watershed Moment’ for Bail Reform in Harris County

2Ken Paxton Wants ‘Ultimate Home Field Advantage’ in Felony Case

3The High Cost of Hays County’s Decision to Keep Prosecuting Low-Level Marijuana Cases

4A Poor Defense

5Texas’ New Medical Marijuana Law Doesn’t Cover Veterans Suffering from PTSD

6Death of Dog Trainer Highlights Strenuous Heat and Working Conditions at Texas Prisons

Most Recent in Education:

1The Cost of Carve-Outs

2Texas Legislature Improves Suicide Prevention in Schools, but Makes Little Progress for Adults

3Texas House Considers Free College For Students Experiencing Homelessness

4‘The Wolf is in the Henhouse’

5‘We’re Not Stupid’: Texas Teachers Take on Dan Patrick and the Legislature over Dismal Education Funding

6In Violation of Texas Law, Most High Schools Aren’t Giving Students the Chance to Register to Vote

Most Recent in Health Care:

1A Texas Anti-Abortion Group Dramatically Missed its Family Planning Targets. Now its Founder is Suing the Federal Government for More Money.

2Molly Ivins on Universal Health Care

3The Trauma of Teen Mothers Held in Border Patrol Lockups

4Meet the ‘Abortion Abolitionists’ Shaping Policy in the Texas GOP

5Texas’ New Medical Marijuana Law Doesn’t Cover Veterans Suffering from PTSD

6Yet Another Rural Texas Hospital is in Jeopardy After Anti-Tax Activists Kill Funding Proposal

Most Recent in The Interview:

1If a Glacier Melts in the Arctic, the Texas Coast Feels It

2Without Transmission Lines, Renewable Energy Still has a Long Way to Go — Literally

3The Dissenter

4The Interview: Mass Resistance

5Meet Jim Allison, Texas’ Newest Nobel Laureate (and Three-Time Cancer Survivor)

6Dolores Huerta is Still Knocking on Doors and Registering Voters at 88

Most Recent in Books:

1‘Black Light’ is a Weird, Wonderful Fever Dream of a Book

2A Riveting New History of an Ancient West Texas Canyon

3‘Texas Flood’ is a Soulful Portrait of Stevie Ray Vaughan

4‘Seadrift’ Dredges Up a Little-Known—and Deeply Disturbing—Texas Story

5Book Review: Scapegoating the Media Ignores Other Major Problems in American Politics

6Without Transmission Lines, Renewable Energy Still has a Long Way to Go — Literally

Most Recent in Features:

1Little Arthouse on the Prairie

2The Clothes that Make the Man

3Washington Crossing the Rio Grande

4Ghosts of the Baker Hotel

5At Home in the World

6Plight at the Museum

Most Recent in Essay:

1To Understand the El Paso Massacre, Look to the Long Legacy of Anti-Mexican Violence at the Border

2Lost in Limbo in the Hays County Jail

3The Trouble with Yoga

4Heads in the Mud

5The Day the Windows Shook

6Women’s Work

Most Recent in Eye on Texas:

1Eye on Texas: Spike Johnston

2Eye on Texas: Loren Elliott

3Eye on Texas: Charlotte Moore

4Eye on Texas: ‘My Joyful Dance’

5Eye on Texas: Ghosts of the City

6Eye on Texas: Fiesta Protesta

Most Recent in Poetry:

1Remembering W.S. Merwin, Honorary Texan

2Lost in Limbo in the Hays County Jail

3Houston Poet Analicia Sotelo’s Debut Smashes Latino Stereotypes

4Parallel Planes

5Options

6Poem: ‘Resistance’

The Magazine: February 2018

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COVER STORY

Too Big To Fine, Too Small To Fight Back

by Naveena Sadasivam

Wed, Feb 21, 2018 |

Texas’ environmental agency targets small business owners for minor recordkeeping violations, while letting the corporate polluters off easy.Read More

In this Issue

Political Intelligence

Medicare for Y’all: Meet the Socialist Metalhead Stumping for Single-Payer

by Gus Bova

Hung Out to Dry: Low-Income Houstonians Stuck in Damaged Homes Months After Harvey

by Sophie Novack

Problems Hide in Plain Sight at Texas’ Youth Lockups

by Michael Barajas

Latest Texan to Join Trump’s EPA is Still Deciding if She Believes in Climate Change

by Naveena Sadasivam

News

الدفع في محطة الوقود

by Naveena Sadasivam

Too Big To Fine, Too Small To Fight Back

by Naveena Sadasivam

A Prison By Any Other Name

by Michael Barajas

CULTURE

by Daniel Blue Tyx

Boom and Bust in Big Spring

by Brad Tyer

Big Trouble in Little Cambodia

by Michael Hardy

Columns

How Democrats Can Fix the Broken Two-Party System in Texas

by Christopher Hooks

State of Texas

Strangest State: February 2018

by Rose Cahalan

Loon Star State

Loon Star State: Shame

by Ben Sargent

Eye on Texas

Eye on Texas: Gentrification in East Austin

by Julia Robinson

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