Governor 2014 Archives - The Texas Observer

Most Recent in Politics:

1Parents: Schools Using Transgender Suit As Cover to Discriminate

2The Texas Miracle #24: Rick Perry’s Last Dance

3Hooks: Dems are Missing Their Chance to Give Obama His Transformational Legacy

4Loon Star State: Unemployment Benefits

5Paxton: ‘No Evidence’ Obama’s Clean Power Plan Will Mitigate Climate Change

6Texas Association of Business Comes Out Against Anti-Trans ‘Bathroom Bills’

Most Recent in Environment:

1Paxton: ‘No Evidence’ Obama’s Clean Power Plan Will Mitigate Climate Change

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

Most Recent in Border:

1Eddie Canales on Saving Migrant Lives in Brooks County

2Report: Mexico’s Border Crackdown Sends Migrants into Dangerous Territory

3Hundreds Gather to Remember the 1966 Texas Farmworkers’ March

4In Texas, Trump Signals a Plan for Victory in Defeat

5Trump Takes Texas, in Photos

6Texas Relents on Birth Certificates for Children of Undocumented Immigrants

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1South Texas School Security Guard Arrested After Allegedly Throwing Girl to Ground

2Lege Hearing Gets Tense Over Racial Profiling

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

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

5Texas Activists Protest Modern-Day ‘Slavery’ in Prisons

6How a Tiny ‘Startup’ in Houston ISD is Reinventing Discipline for Thousands of Students

Most Recent in Education:

1Some Texas Schools are Still Fighting Decades-Old Desegregation Orders

2Parents: Schools Using Transgender Suit As Cover to Discriminate

3South Texas School Security Guard Arrested After Allegedly Throwing Girl to Ground

4Hostile Takeover

5Once Again, School District Shuts Down Tax Break for Gas Exporter

6First School District Set to Join Parents’ Lawsuit Over STAAR

Most Recent in Health Care:

1The Texas Miracle #23: She Fought the Law — and the Law Lost

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)

Most Recent in The Interview:

1The Interview: Paul Quinn College’s Michael Sorrell

2The Interview: Judge John Dietz on Texas’ School Finance Crisis

3The Interview: Frank Jackson

4The Interview: Cecile Richards

5The Interview: Anthony Graves

6The Interview: Elliott Naishtat

Most Recent in Books:

1All the Wrong Moves

2In ‘Houston on the Move,’ the Bayou City Wakes Up

3Good as Gone Treats Women Mysteriously Like People

4Meet the Texas Scholar Who Unearthed Walt Whitman’s 19th Century Clickbait

5Send Us Your Stories, Writers

6Hiking the Keystone XL Pipeline and Hoping for Dialogue

Most Recent in Postcards:

2Feathering Their Nest

3The Business of Burying Horses

4Fragile Species

5Rotten Apples in Donna ISD

6Holding Back the Flood

Most Recent in Essay:

1How Ali Inspired a Generation of Chicano Activists

2David Bowie in Aztlán

3The 66 Percent: Erasing Mexican Americans in the United States

4The New Migrants

5How the 1% Gardens

6Our Blue Period

Most Recent in Eye on Texas:

1Eye on Texas: TX Open Swim

2Eye on Texas: Blessing of the Hands in San Antonio

3Eye on Texas: Austin’s Chapels

4Eye on Texas: Portico Tejas

5Eye on Texas: Xiomara, a Domestic Worker Who’s ‘Invisible in Austin’

6Eye on Texas: Uncertain, Texas

Most Recent in Poetry:

1Poem: ‘Whitewashing’

2Poem: ‘Rice and Beans’

3Poem: ‘I Could Have a Thousand Husbands’

4Poem: Aleppo Oslo Jos Boston

5Poem: ‘Poets And Antidepressants’

6Poem: ‘While I Was Trying to Avoid Falling in Love’

Tag Archives: Governor 2014

Wendy Davis speaking

by Christopher Hooks and Forrest Wilder

At First Guv Debate Since 2006, Not Much Debating

Fri, Sep 19, 2014 |

Tonight, Greg Abbott was interviewed by a team of reporters in McAllen. The interesting thing about this interview, which sets it apart from others, is that Wen...Read More

Wendy Davis speaks to the press at an election rally, April 14, 2014.

by Christopher Hooks

New PPP Poll Highlights Areas of Concern for Texas Democrats

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Tue, Apr 15, 2014 |

Amid a paucity of polls in Texas, a survey from Public Policy polling brings bad news for the state's Democrats (and good news for Gov. Perry.)...Read More

Wendy Davis speaks at a rally in the basement of the Texas State Teacher's Association building in Austin. April 14, 2014.

by Christopher Hooks

Wendy Davis and the Curious Case of the Pre-Kindergarten STAAR

Mon, Apr 14, 2014 |

Wendy Davis is hammering Greg Abbott on aspects of his pre-K proposal. Can she use it turn the conversation to education policy?...Read More

Abbott 2.0

by Christopher Hooks

Greg Abbott’s Weird, Empty Attack Site

Wed, Mar 26, 2014 |

For a week, Greg Abbott's campaign has been pushing a new website dedicated to exposing Wendy Davis. But it hasn't gotten off the ground....Read More

At a meeting of the Capital Area Democratic Women, Davis supporters smell blood in the water over Equal Pay. March 20, 2014.

by Christopher Hooks

The Future of the Equal Pay Fight

The Davis campaign is doubling down on equal pay. Is it enough?

Tue, Mar 25, 2014 |

Democrats are rightfully cheered by the events of the last two weeks—but they'll need to build a lasting narrative about Greg Abbott to sustain momentum....Read More

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott

by Christopher Hooks

Greg Abbott Scores an Own Goal on Equal Pay

Wed, Mar 19, 2014 |

Hours after the San Antonio Express-News released an investigation into Greg Abbott's own pay practices, he announced he'd veto an equal pay bill....Read More

Ted Nugent

by Christopher Hooks

It’s Ted Nugent’s Party—You’re Just Living With It

Wed, Feb 19, 2014 |

Ted Nugent's acceptance by the Texas GOP goes deeper than his appearance with Greg Abbott....Read More

Wendy Davis speaking

by Christopher Hooks

‘Redneck’ Democrat Packs it in Over Open Carry

Wendy Davis' recent talk on abortion and gun rights has irritated some of her base. But it's led one Democrat in Limestone County to close up shop.

Thu, Feb 13, 2014 |

Wendy Davis' recent talk on abortion and gun rights has irritated some of her base. But it's led one Democrat in Limestone County to close up shop....Read More

Wendy Davis holds a press conference in front of Austin Community College, Monday, February 10.

by Christopher Hooks

Wendy Davis Hits Abbott On School Finance, Defends Open Carry Comments

Mon, Feb 10, 2014 |

Wendy Davis repeated her call for Attorney General Greg Abbott to settle an ongoing lawsuit over Texas’ school finance system, indicating her campaign is bett...Read More

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