Kel Seliger 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:

1Texas State Quietly Removes Confederate Monument

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

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: Kel Seliger

Ken Paxton, after being sworn in, stands among Texas GOP VIP's: From left to right, Governor-elect Greg Abbott, Senator Ted Cruz, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, Justice Don Willett, and Governor Rick Perry.

by Christopher Hooks

Just When Ken Paxton Thought He Was In the Clear…

Thu, Apr 9, 2015 |

We'd reached a plateau in the long-broiling ethics scandal around Attorney General Ken Paxton. But in the last week, things are starting to heat up again....Read More

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Seliger Looks to Reduce Importance of High-Stakes Tests

Thu, Feb 19, 2015 |

Proposed legislation would allow students to graduate high school without passing all of Texas' required high-stakes tests....Read More

Gov. Rick Perry and GOP House candidate Charles Perry pose for photos in 2010.

by Christopher Hooks

The Increasingly Tea Party Texas Senate: Charles Perry Edition

Wed, Sep 10, 2014 |

With Charles Perry's win in Senate District 28 last night, next session's Senate is clicking into place. Boy, it's going to be a hell of a time....Read More

by Christopher Hooks

Texas Senate Loses Yet Another Moderate

Mon, May 19, 2014 |

Robert Duncan's resignation to lead the Texas Tech University System will likely tilt the Texas Senate even further to the right....Read More

Perry Vetoes Dark Money Disclosure Bill

by Olivia Messer

4 Comments | Sat, May 25, 2013

Gov. Rick Perry vetoed his first set of bills Saturday, including SB 346, Sen. Kel Seliger’s “dark money” disclosure bill....Read More

The current UT System Regents.

by Beth Cortez-Neavel

House Hears Bill Limiting UT Regents’ Power

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Wed, Apr 24, 2013 |

Sen. Kel Seliger's bill that could cut through the University of Texas System regents' current power struggle with the Legislature was heard by the House Higher...Read More

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by Forrest Wilder

Texas Senate OKs ‘Hotter’ Waste for West Texas

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Tue, Apr 23, 2013 |

Harold Simmons' West Texas radioactive waste empire got a boost today after the Texas Senate passed legislation allowing Waste Control Specialists to accept "ho...Read More

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