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2Once Again, School District Shuts Down Tax Break for Gas Exporter

3Feeling the Burn in Big Bend

4Outgoing State Rep. Jim Keffer on Trump, Climate Change and Being a Tea Party Target

5The Texas Miracle #22: Dancing with the Snark (and Rick Perry)

6Climate Science ‘Skeptic’ Lamar Smith Claims to Aid Scientists in Latest Crusade

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5Trump Takes Texas, in Photos

6Texas Relents on Birth Certificates for Children of Undocumented Immigrants

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3Texas Judge Dismisses Trans Prisoner’s Lawsuit Seeking Gender Confirmation Surgery

4Citing Observer Report, Senators Vow Stronger Protection for Texans Under Guardianship

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2Some Texas Schools are Still Fighting Decades-Old Desegregation Orders

3Parents: Schools Using Transgender Suit As Cover to Discriminate

4South Texas School Security Guard Arrested After Allegedly Throwing Girl to Ground

5Hostile Takeover

6Once Again, School District Shuts Down Tax Break for Gas Exporter

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2The Texas Miracle #22: Dancing with the Snark (and Rick Perry)

3Op-Ed: Abortion Access and Trans Health Care Are Bound Together in Texas

4Crisis Pregnancy Center Among Texas Repro Health Contractors

5Oil and Gas Smog Projected to Cause 140,000 Asthma Attacks in Kids

6The Texas Miracle #18: Our Best 40 Minutes (So Far)

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5Send Us Your Stories, Writers

6Hiking the Keystone XL Pipeline and Hoping for Dialogue

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6Our Blue Period

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6Eye on Texas: Uncertain, Texas

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2Poem: ‘Rice and Beans’

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Tag Archives: Eileen Garcia

Van-Zandt-County-Juvenile-Probation-Dept

by Patrick Michels

Auctions of Juvenile Treatment Space to End Following Observer Story

Trade group: ‘The perception is the problem, so we’re not going to do it anymore.’

Leave a comment |

Fri, Nov 9, 2012 |

The Juvenile Justice Association of Texas will quit auctioning treatment space in response to criticism from state Sen. John Whitmire, following a Texas Obs...Read More

In Juvenile Justice, Community Probation Doesn’t Always Mean Kids Are Close to Home

After years of reform focused on placing kids in probation programs near home, advocates worry about transfers to county facilities hundreds of miles away.

by Patrick Michels

Leave a comment | Tue, Oct 30, 2012

Five years of juvenile justice reform in Texas have been built on one point that everyone can agree on: kids do better when they’re close to home. Texas has m...Read More

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