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3Houston City Employees are Fighting to Uphold Marriage Equality in Texas

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5How ‘Mad Moms in Minivans’ Injected Themselves into Texas’ Anti-Vaccine Debate

6National Butterfly Center Founder: Trump’s Border Wall Prep ‘Trampling on Private Property Rights’

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1Santa Ana’s Last Stand?

2The Rising Storm

3Introducing the Texas Observer’s Rural Reporting Project

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5Gulf Coast Environmental Group Sues Plastic Company After Slow Response from TCEQ

6The Texas Legislature’s Chainsaw Massacre

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1Santa Ana’s Last Stand?

2Stalking Horse

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4‘El Peso Hero’ is the 21st-Century Borderland Superhero Texas Needs

515 Protesters Arrested After Demonstration Defending DACA at Texas Capitol

6Trump’s New Immigration Lockup Draws Local Opposition in Conroe

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1Deputies Go Unpunished for Invasive Cavity Search on Houston Roadside

2Meet the Expert Who Helps Texas Cops Justify Extreme Behavior

3Why Dallas is One of the Few Places Killer Cops Could be Held Accountable

4Compassionate (Ab)use: Family Battles Texas over Medical Marijuana

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6Trump’s New Immigration Lockup Draws Local Opposition in Conroe

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1Dan Patrick Accuses Joe Straus of Ponzi Scheme Ahead of Special Session

2Critics Fear New Texas Law Giving SBOE Wide Discretion Over Textbooks

3After Freedom Caucus Kills Her Legislation, Lawmaker Announces Anti-‘Lunch Shaming’ Campaign

4Texas’ ‘Lunch Shaming’ Problem and the Fight to Fix It

5CPS Caseworker: Lawmakers Are ‘Shifting the Blame’ by Privatizing Child Welfare System

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

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1Introducing the Texas Observer’s Rural Reporting Project

2Red is the New Orange: Handmaids Bring More than Just Silence to the Abortion Fight

3Compassionate (Ab)use: Family Battles Texas over Medical Marijuana

4What a Ban on Insurance for Abortions Means for Women with High-Risk Pregnancies

5Lawsuit Filed Against New Texas Abortion Law

6Texas Bill Would Revoke Medical Licenses of Doctors Who Perform Abortions

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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

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1The Rising Storm

2Stalking Horse

3Seven Texas Indie Booksellers on Their Favorite Books of the Year (So Far)

4‘El Peso Hero’ is the 21st-Century Borderland Superhero Texas Needs

5‘The Hour of Land,’ Terry Tempest Williams’ Love Letter to National Parks

6Announcing the Seventh Annual Observer Short Story Contest

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1Ride Like a Girl

6Feathering Their Nest

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1Dear Governor Abbott: The ‘Bathroom Bill’ Endangers Trans Texans Like My Son

2Stalking Horse

3Protecting Immigrant Families: A Call for an Economic Boycott of Texas

4Cut from the Same Cloth: Wearing Hijab in Houston, Post-Trump

5Going It Alone

6The Observer’s Founding Editor: ‘Bring the Fight Back’ to Texas Politics

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6Eye on Texas: Portico Tejas

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1Parallel Planes

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5Poem: ‘To Be One with the All’

6Poem: ‘Whitewashing’

Tag Archives: Abilene

Dawn Buckingham

by Naveena Sadasivam

Senate Candidates Struggle to Make Waves on Water Issues

In the race to represent SD 24, Republican candidates Susan King and Dawn Buckingham face a difficult balancing act on water conservation and pricing.

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Sat, May 21, 2016 |

The runoff for SD 24, sprawling from Abilene to Bandera, is between an outsider ophthalmologist (look out, Donna Campbell!) and a five-term state rep....Read More

Former San Antonio ISD police officer Joshua Kehm.

by Patrick Michels

Advocates Call on Abbott to Take on Abuse by School Cops

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Tue, May 17, 2016 |

If Greg Abbott is so worried about kids' safety, they say, why doesn't he do more to keep Texas schoolchildren safe from reactive, and armed, cops?...Read More

The Jefferson Center disciplinary campus in Abilene, an "alternative" campus for children as young as kindergarteners.

by Patrick Michels

Three Families Take ‘Abusive’ Abilene School Cop to Court

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Fri, Apr 29, 2016 |

In May 2014, according to a federal lawsuit filed Thursday, an Abilene school police officer used a pain submission maneuver called an “arm bar” to pick up ...Read More

Robert Bakker — sketch artist

by Asher Elbein

Unearthing a Lost World

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Tue, Aug 25, 2015 |

Nearly all of the fossils in this Seymour quarry are Dimetrodon or similar “sail-backed” predators. It’s a concentration of flesh eaters unprecedented in ...Read More

by Forrest Wilder

Everyone Supports the State Water Plan, So Now What?

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Tue, Feb 19, 2013 |

Support for funding the $53 billion water plan appeared to be unanimous. Everyone pledged fealty to water conservation. The question now, as Sen. Troy Fraser (R...Read More

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