June 2018 - The Texas Observer

Most Recent in Politics:

1Book Review: Scapegoating the Media Ignores Other Major Problems in American Politics

2How Julián Castro’s ‘Decade of Downtown’ Reshaped San Antonio

3‘A Mockery of Public Trust’: Bexar Sheriff Cleans House, Angers Deputies’ Union

4Loon Star: Trump University, Department of Mendacity

5Shelter Director Ruben Garcia on How Struggling Nonprofits Carry the Load of the Migrant ‘Crisis’

6The System Works for Attorney General Ken Paxton. Again.

Most Recent in Environment:

1Eye on Texas: Spike Johnston

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

3Nurdle by Nurdle, Citizens Took on A Billion-Dollar Plastic Company — and Won

4Nearly 500,000 Texans Live in Communities with Contaminated Groundwater. Lawmakers Aren’t Doing Much About It.

5‘All it Took was 25 Years’: Legislature Ponies Up Cash for Underfunded Texas Parks

6Carbon Sequestration Isn’t The Long-Term Solution. Is it a Short-Term One?

Most Recent in Border:

1In Matamoros, Asylum-Seekers Wait, and Wait and Wait

2Migrant Children are Our Children

3Forgotten in the Fields

4Doctor Details ‘Insane,’ ‘Demoralizing’ Conditions for Kids at Texas Migrant Detention Center

5Shelter Director Ruben Garcia on How Struggling Nonprofits Carry the Load of the Migrant ‘Crisis’

6In the Rio Grande Valley, a Fight to Bring Back NPR

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1A Poor Defense

2Texas’ New Medical Marijuana Law Doesn’t Cover Veterans Suffering from PTSD

3Death of Dog Trainer Highlights Strenuous Heat and Working Conditions at Texas Prisons

4Doctor Details ‘Insane,’ ‘Demoralizing’ Conditions for Kids at Texas Migrant Detention Center

5‘A Mockery of Public Trust’: Bexar Sheriff Cleans House, Angers Deputies’ Union

6The System Works for Attorney General Ken Paxton. Again.

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:

1Texas’ New Medical Marijuana Law Doesn’t Cover Veterans Suffering from PTSD

2Yet Another Rural Texas Hospital is in Jeopardy After Anti-Tax Activists Kill Funding Proposal

3Texas Legislature Improves Suicide Prevention in Schools, but Makes Little Progress for Adults

4Inside Texas’ Failed Experiment to Replace Planned Parenthood with an Anti-Abortion Group

6Texans with Disabilities are Struggling to Find Health Care Attendants. Lawmakers Didn’t Do Much to Help.

Most Recent in The Interview:

1Without Transmission Lines, Renewable Energy Still has a Long Way to Go — Literally

3The Interview: Mass Resistance

4Meet Jim Allison, Texas’ Newest Nobel Laureate (and Three-Time Cancer Survivor)

5Dolores Huerta is Still Knocking on Doors and Registering Voters at 88

6The Interview: Veronica Escobar is Poised to Make History

Most Recent in Books:

1Book Review: Scapegoating the Media Ignores Other Major Problems in American Politics

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

4Announcing the Ninth Annual Texas Observer Short Story Contest

5‘Human Matter’ Dredges up the Dark History of the Guatemalan Civil War

6With Sprawl and Serial Killers, Houston Noir Packs a Mean Punch

Most Recent in Features:

1The Clothes that Make the Man

2Washington Crossing the Rio Grande

3Ghosts of the Baker Hotel

4At Home in the World

5Plight at the Museum

6The Texas Observer’s Best Features of 2018

Most Recent in Essay:

1Lost in Limbo in the Hays County Jail

2The Trouble with Yoga

3Heads in the Mud

4The Day the Windows Shook

5Women’s Work

6I Grew Up on the Texas-Mexico Border, but Now I Barely Recognize It

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

6Poem: ‘Resistance’

The Magazine: June 2018

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The Surge

by Melissa del Bosque and G.W. Schulz

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In this Issue

Political Intelligence

Sinking Land and Climate Change Are Worsening Tidal Floods on the Texas Coast

by Naveena Sadasivam

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

by Sophie Novack

News

Strangest State: June 2018

by Rose Cahalan

Tracking DPS Across the Sky: How We Did It

by Melissa del Bosque and G.W. Schulz

by Melissa del Bosque and G.W. Schulz

CULTURE

The Day the Windows Shook

by Michael Hoinski

by Brian Maschino

Chasing Tornadoes and Drama in ‘The Man Who Caught the Storm’

State of Texas

Dan’s the Man, Now

by Christopher Hooks

Strangest State: June 2018

by Rose Cahalan

Eye on Texas

Eye on Texas: Remembering Draylen Mason

by Morgan O'Hanlon