Tag Archives: Ann Richards
‘Life Was Her Art’: Nadine Eckhardt Remembered as an Influential Cultural Conduit in Texas and Washington
A lifelong progressive activist, Eckhardt always managed to straddle both the establishment and counterculture.
Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, first wife and muse of novelist Billy Lee Brammer (The Gay Place) and second wife of Texas Democratic Congressman Robert C. Eckhardt, d...Read More
Remembering Audre Rapoport, 1923-2016
Lou Dubose remembers the "intuitive, smart, opinionated (really opinionated), witty, elegant" Wacoan who lived life in the heart of Texas politics....Read More
How To Turn Texas Blue
Mary Beth Rogers' new book is a blueprint for turning Texas blue, or at least giving Democrats a fighting chance.
Mary Beth Rogers ran the last successful statewide Democratic campaign in Texas — in 1990. Here, she lays out a plan for turning Texas blue again. ...Read More
Eye on Texas: Texas Politics in Black and White
Heroes, villains and mediocrities, all captured on film.
From grainy, grim photos of early Texas patriarchs (Mirabeau Lamar, José Antonio Navarro) to Ann and Rick and W., Picturing Texas Politics is a thuddi...Read More
The Book Report: Redefining “Her Texas”
A new anthology, “Her Texas: Story, Image, Poem & Song,” offers a multiethnic and multidisciplinary snapshot of creative women in contemporary Texas....Read More
The Observer Review: The Purse Bearer, by Joe Holley
The Purse Bearer revolves around a central character, Wily T. Foxx, who is given the opportunity to quit his job collecting animal carcasses for the Texas Highw...Read More
Observer Radio Episode 56: Ann Richards’ Return to the Limelight
Josh Rosenblatt joins us in the studio to discuss HBO's new documentary on former Texas Governor Ann Richards....Read More
When Ann Richards Ruled: HBO’s All About Ann
For those not old enough to remember the great Ann Richards, even the possibility of her seems mythic—a bedtime story liberal parents tell their kids to give ...Read More
Wendy Davis’ Reproductive Rights Conundrum
Reproductive rights, the issue that catapulted Wendy Davis to fame, also has the power to alienate moderate voters. ...Read More