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Following Observer Story, Voting Rights Group Asks DOJ to Investigate West Texas Sheriff (Updated)
A D.C. group has asked the DOJ to investigate the alleged voter intimidation tactics of a West Texas sheriff featured in a recent Observer investigation....Read More
Strangest State: Biblical Fossils, Ebola Meth and a Push-Up King
In this month's weird news from far-flung Texas, a Tyler man believes he's found biblical history in his back yard, and the unofficial Popeye of Victoria....Read More
Immigrant Families Sue to Stop Licensing Detention Centers for Child Care (Updated)
Two moms, detained with their kids, along with an anti-detention nonprofit, say prison-like immigrant detention centers shouldn't be child care providers....Read More
Rockwall Resoundingly Rejects Anti-Trans ‘Bathroom’ Ordinance
Rockwall may never go down alongside Stonewall in the annals of LGBT history, but Monday’s City Council meeting in the conservative Dallas suburb arguably mar...Read More
Texas Licenses Detention Center for Child Care, Despite Deficiencies
The state says deficiencies have been 'fixed' at Karnes, where a private prison company runs the ICE detainment facility for immigrant moms and kids....Read More
Above the Law
Pamela Elliott was the new sheriff in town. But instead of law and order, she brought chaos.
Pamela Elliott was the new sheriff in town. But instead of law and order, she brought chaos — voter intimidation and botched investigations — to West Texas....Read More
Are Big Donors Abandoning Attorney General Ken Paxton?
Campaign finance reports suggest some donors are quietly rethinking their support of embroiled attorney general Ken Paxton even as top GOP leaders stay mum....Read More
The Texas Miracle #5: What’s Wrong with Texas Voters?
Why don't Texans vote? Will Rick Perry wear his hipster glasses in his official portrait? How'd that tiger get loose? Plus more on this week's podcast.
Why don't Texans vote? Will Rick Perry wear his hipster glasses in his official portrait? How'd that tiger get loose? Plus more on this week's podcast....Read More
Texas Supreme Court Blocks Houston Air Quality Ordinance
The city said it needed local regulations to make up for lax TCEQ air quality enforcement, and without them, the already polluted air will simply get worse. ...Read More