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1Destruction of Lizard’s West Texas Habitat 10 Times Worse Than Previously Thought

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4Experts: Much of Harvey-Related Air Pollution was Preventable

5‘Look & See’ Is a Love Letter to Family Farming, Rural America and Wendell Berry

6The Impossible City

Most Recent in Border:

1Court Revives Possibility that Texas Sheriffs Could be Jailed for Refusing ICE Detainers

2Civil Rights Group’s Budget Nearly Halved by Foundation with Ties to Texas Supreme Court

3ICE Detained This Trafficking Victim on Her 18th Birthday. Why?

4‘Los Zetas Inc.’ Author on Why Mexico’s Drug War Isn’t About Drugs

6Salvadoran Man Seeks ‘Sanctuary’ from Deportation in Austin Church

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1Court Revives Possibility that Texas Sheriffs Could be Jailed for Refusing ICE Detainers

2Body Cam Policies in Texas Exacerbate a System Designed to Protect Police, Critics Say

3Civil Rights Group’s Budget Nearly Halved by Foundation with Ties to Texas Supreme Court

4ICE Detained This Trafficking Victim on Her 18th Birthday. Why?

5The Road to Huntsville

6In San Antonio, Cops Punch Down

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1Despite ‘Hardship’ Funding, Rural Texas Schools Face Difficult Financial Future

2Loon Star State: Texas Public Schools

3Dan Patrick Accuses Joe Straus of Ponzi Scheme Ahead of Special Session

4Critics Fear New Texas Law Giving SBOE Wide Discretion Over Textbooks

5After Freedom Caucus Kills Her Legislation, Lawmaker Announces Anti-‘Lunch Shaming’ Campaign

6Texas’ ‘Lunch Shaming’ Problem and the Fight to Fix It

Most Recent in Health Care:

1Where do Texas Democrats Stand on Single-Payer Health Care?

2State Plans to Restore Services after Advocates in Wheelchairs Surprise Officials

3Judge Temporarily Halts New Texas Abortion Ban

4Despite Self-Congratulation, Lawmakers Did Virtually Nothing about Maternal Mortality Crisis

5Introducing the Texas Observer’s Rural Reporting Project

6Red is the New Orange: Handmaids Bring More than Just Silence to the Abortion Fight

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4The Interview: Lupe Valdez

5The Interview: Paul Quinn College’s Michael Sorrell

6The Interview: Judge John Dietz on Texas’ School Finance Crisis

Most Recent in Books:

1Short Story Contest Finalist: ‘A Thunder Note in an Angry Sky’

2Short Story Contest Finalist: ‘Malena’

3The King of Pulp

4‘Sip’ Seeks Dystopian Depth, and Fine Dining, in the Shadows

5The Rising Storm

6Stalking Horse

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1The King of Pulp

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3Stalking Horse

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5Cut from the Same Cloth: Wearing Hijab in Houston, Post-Trump

6Going It Alone

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5Eye on Texas: Blessing of the Hands in San Antonio

6Eye on Texas: Austin’s Chapels

Most Recent in Poetry:

1Parallel Planes

3Poem: ‘Resistance’

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5Poem: ‘To Be One with the All’

6Poem: ‘Whitewashing’

Tag Archives: Perry

by Emily DePrang

Helena Brown Is Coming for Your Gun (Manufacturer)

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Wed, Mar 13, 2013 |

Recently trounced Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst jumped on the PR bandwagon inviting gunmaker Beretta to Texas last week, four days after trendsetter Helena Brown. ...Read More

Perry’s “Fetal Pain” Bill Probably Wouldn’t Prevent Fetal Pain, Would Close Abortion Clinics

by Emily DePrang

Leave a comment | Thu, Dec 13, 2012

There’s always womb for Rick Perry. On Tuesday, he alighted at The Source For Women, a crisis pregnancy center in Houston whose opening ribbon he cut in Septe...Read More

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