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Most Recent in Politics:

1What Texas Republicans Are (and Aren’t) Saying About Trump’s Family Separation Policy

2Southern Baptists Grapple with Their Own ‘Horrifying #MeToo Moment’

3Ted Cruz and State Republicans Make Clear: This is Trump’s Texas Now

4Ken Paxton: ‘The More We Talk About Gun Regulation, the More People Are Gonna Die’

5What You Missed: First 2 Days of the 2018 Texas Republican Convention

6Waco Immigrant Mom Locked Up for 2 ½ Years, Alleges Sexual Assault by Guard

Most Recent in Environment:

1How Disaster Recovery Overlooks the Poor

2Industrial Wood Processor Accused of Making East Texans Sick May Get to Pollute Even More

3Despite Public Health Risks, Trump’s EPA to Roll Back Regulation to Prevent Methane Leaks

4No Resolution in Sight For Ranchers and Farmers Fighting Over San Saba River

5Austin’s on the Wrong Side of the 100th Meridian

6Unpublished Federal Report Projects Bleak Future for Central Texas Mussels and Rivers

Most Recent in Border:

1What Texas Republicans Are (and Aren’t) Saying About Trump’s Family Separation Policy

3ICE Issues More Detainers in Texas, Withholds Crucial Data

4In Presidio, a New Public Art Project Crosses Borders

5Trump’s Border Wall Lands Rio Grande on List of Nation’s Most Endangered Rivers

6Militarization of Texas-Mexico Border a Sign of Complacency, but Not From Border Residents

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1Waco Immigrant Mom Locked Up for 2 ½ Years, Alleges Sexual Assault by Guard

2In Austin, ‘Discretionary’ Arrests for Petty Crimes Skew Blacker, Browner Than City Population

4Something Has Changed in the Gun Debate in Texas

5Ahead of Mother’s Day, Activists Bail Out Young Black Moms Across Texas

6A Catch-22 in the Crimmigration System in Harris County

Most Recent in Education:

1What’s in a Name? Texas SBOE Tentatively Approves ‘Ethnic Studies: Mexican American Studies’

2SMU Just Lost Its Independent Student Newspaper. Is Your College Next?

3Lawsuit: Texas Art Teacher Suspended Because She Told Students About Her Wife

4Texas Teachers ‘Blow the Whistle’ After Conservatives Accuse Them of (Gasp!) Getting out the Vote

5Nazis Go To School

6‘I Would Have to Drop Out’: 200 Texas Grad Students Walk Out to Protest GOP Tax Bill

Most Recent in Health Care:

1New Lawsuit Challenges Dozens of Texas Anti-Abortion Restrictions

2Trump Sides with Ken Paxton to Argue Pre-Existing Conditions Protections are Unconstitutional

3‘We Love Our Neighbors, but It’s a Sin’: A Dispatch from a ‘Sex Ed Sitout’

4What Could Happen if Trump Cuts Family Planning Funds from Planned Parenthood? Look at Texas.

5Texas Has the Most Cities More than 100 Miles from an Abortion Clinic, Study Finds

6Trump Administration Orders Refugee Shelters to Direct Pregnant Teens to Anti-Abortion Clinics

Most Recent in The Interview:

1Redistricting Guru Michael Li on Texas’ Gerrymandered Maps

2Senfronia Thompson Says #MeToo: Texas Lawmaker on 45 Years of Sexism, Racism at the Capitol

3Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo on Sanctuary Cities, Police Unions and Tommy Guns

4Meet Nueces County’s New DA, a Self-Professed ‘Mexican Biker Lawyer Covered in Tattoos’

5The Interview: Joaquin Castro Says Texas Democrats are Poised for a Comeback

6The Interview: Beto O’Rourke on Trump, the Border and How to Revive the Democratic Party

Most Recent in Books:

1A Strange and Wonderful New Book Celebrates the Often-Ignored Work of Outsider Artists

2‘Driven’ is an Edgy Memoir of Cars, Crises and Coming of Age

3A Feminist Literary Classic Gets a Timely Reissue, and it’s Still Maddeningly Relevant

4‘The Last Cowboys’ is a Wild Ride All the Way Home

5‘A Shout in the Ruins’ Contends with the South’s Violent History

6Chasing Tornadoes and Drama in ‘The Man Who Caught the Storm’

Most Recent in Postcards:

1The Time-Traveler’s Guide to the Lower Pecos

4Field Notes from Santa Ana

5The King of Pulp

6Ride Like a Girl

Most Recent in Essay:

1Women’s Work

2I Grew Up on the Texas-Mexico Border, but Now I Barely Recognize It

3Somewhere It Hides a Well

4Drinking the Kool-Aid at the Garden of Eden

5The Road to Huntsville

6The Impossible City

Most Recent in Eye on Texas:

1Eye on Texas: Gentrification in East Austin

2Eye on Texas: Transgender Youth in Texas

3Eye On Texas: Hurricane Harvey

4Eye on Texas: Fantastical Taxidermy

5Eye on Texas: Runners Take on 170-Mile Race in Big Bend

6Eye on Texas: Liberty Hill Hosts Texas Firearms Festival

Most Recent in Poetry:

1Houston Poet Analicia Sotelo’s Debut Smashes Latino Stereotypes

2Parallel Planes

4Poem: ‘Resistance’

5Poem: ‘Screenplay for a Homemade Movie’

6Poem: ‘To Be One with the All’

Tag Archives: Legislature

Texas Demographer Has Given the Same Speech for 25 Years. Is Anyone Listening?

'Unless we reverse the trends that we’re seeing now, we will be a poorer, less-educated state,' the former state demographer says.

Tue, Apr 11, 2017 |

“Unless we reverse the trends that we’re seeing now, we will be a poorer, less-educated state,” the former state demographer says....Read More

by Emily Mathis

Hot List: Day 137 of the Legislature

Fri, May 24, 2013 |

The session adjourns on Monday, but the big question on everyone's lips at the Capitol is: Will there be a special session?...Read More

by Emily Mathis

Hot List: Day 133 of the Texas Legislature

Mon, May 20, 2013 |

It's one week left of the Legislature, and lawmakers are cramming last-minute laws into the session like it's the night before their final exams....Read More

by Emily Mathis

Hot List: Day 126 of the Legislature

Mon, May 13, 2013 |

The focus in the House today is prevention of wrongful convictions. ...Read More

Coleman and Janek Debate Responsibility over State’s Uninsured

by Emily Mathis

Wed, Feb 13, 2013

After nearly two hours of testimony in the House Public Health Committee Wednesday, committee members finally got to the crux of the battle over the uninsured w...Read More

John Kuhn

by Patrick Michels

Tyrant’s Foe: John Kuhn, Standing Tall For Test Reform

Thu, Feb 7, 2013 |

“I think there’s a large percentage of teachers who kind of have this quiet angst about how they’re being treated,” he says. “I think I’m fairly typ...Read More

by Eileen Smith

Texas Democrats, Make Your Move

Fri, Nov 16, 2012 |

Forget about the great GOP awakening. Now is the perfect time for Texas Democrats to figure out what the hell they’re doing. The default explanation for their...Read More

People’s Friend/People’s Foe Awards

by Texas Observer Staff

Tue, Jun 21, 2011

All this week, we’ll be unveiling The Texas Observer’s second biennial People’s Friend and People’s Foe awards. Each day this week we’ll add new f...Read More

Tea Time

Three freshmen look back at their first session.

by Abby Rapoport

Fri, Jun 17, 2011

They were the most talked-about class of House freshmen in years—and they came ready to change the system. The newly-elected Tea Partiers spent months on the ...Read More

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