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2The Trump Administration Blows Its Border Wall Budget in South Texas

3Journalists Blocked from Attending Secretive Immigration Tent Courts

4‘El Paso Firme’ Music Festival Calls on Texans to Peacefully Resist White Supremacy

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6Starr County Proposes Alternative Border Wall Plan

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

4A Poor Defense

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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

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2American Health Care is Broken, Especially in Texas. What Can We Do About It?

3Thousands of Rape Kits in Texas Went Untested For Years. Lavinia Masters Is Ending That.

4‘My Congregation Trusts Women’: Progressive Faith Groups Counter Anti-Abortion Narratives

5A Texas Anti-Abortion Group Dramatically Missed its Family Planning Targets. Now its Founder is Suing the Federal Government for More Money.

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4How Earl Campbell Changed Football in Texas

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6‘The Secrets We Kept’ is a Finely-Structured Story of Secrets, Spies, and Secretaries

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2Lost in Limbo in the Hays County Jail

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4Heads in the Mud

5The Day the Windows Shook

6Women’s Work

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4Eye on Texas: ‘My Joyful Dance’

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3Houston Poet Analicia Sotelo’s Debut Smashes Latino Stereotypes

4Parallel Planes

6Poem: ‘Resistance’

Tag Archives: Brian Birdwell

marijuana, texas, legalize

by Vicky Camarillo

Texas Legislature Set to (Slightly) Expand Medical Marijuana Access

Only Texans with intractable epilepsy can currently use medical cannabis. As new legislation heading toward the governor’s desk adds a few more conditions to the list, advocates wish lawmakers had gone further and Republicans fret about a "slippery slope."

Thu, May 23, 2019 |

It wasn’t the wide-ranging medical cannabis bill that Democrats and marijuana advocates wanted. But patients with terminal cancer, autism, neurodegenerative d...Read More

Jack Finger

Proposed GOP Platform Calls for Trans Bathroom Ban, Constitutional Convention

A secession plank didn't make it into the document, but could make a reappearance on the floor Friday.

Fri, May 13, 2016 |

The GOP's running with Gov. Greg Abbott's call for a constitutional convention, and has doubled down on anti-LGBTQ planks in this year's proposed platform....Read More

by Kelsey Jukam

Senate Brings Texas One Step Closer to Open Carry

Mon, May 18, 2015 |

A day after nine people died in a massive shootout in Waco, a Senate committee approved a bill legalizing the open carry of handguns....Read More

Kristen Katz and Julie Gavran

by Kelsey Jukam

Gun Control Activists Fight to be Heard at Capitol

Opponents of open carry and campus carry say their access to lawmakers has sometimes been limited, even as the most extreme gun activists get meetings with top elected officials.

Wed, Mar 11, 2015 |

Opponents of open carry and campus carry say their access to lawmakers has sometimes been limited, even as the most extreme gun activists get meetings with top ...Read More

WTF Friday: Soldiers of God, Frats of Fury, Snake Assault

Fri, Feb 13, 2015 |

In this week's WTF Friday: Brian Birdwell, gangster rapper. Did Jesus open carry? A theological meditation. Snakes. Frats. The war of Northern Aggression....Read More

by Christopher Hooks and Kelsey Jukam

Open Carry, Campus Carry Pass Their First Test

Thu, Feb 12, 2015 |

Bills to allow Texans to carry guns on college campuses, and unconcealed handguns in public, passed out of a Senate committee today....Read More

Van de Putte Treated to Compliments, Awkward Jokes as Senate’s New President Pro Tem

by Olivia Messer

Tue, Jan 8, 2013

Zaffirini's nomination roast continued with a nod to Van de Putte's 12 kids and grandchildren gathered around her desk. "I'm not sure when she became an advocat...Read More

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