Most Recent in Texas Politics:

1The Lege This Week: Stimmy for Schools?

2The Lege This Week: Elections and Abortions and Grid-Reforms, Oh My!

3The Lege This Week: “Another Watershed Moment”

4The Lege This Week: GOP Launches Election Crackdown

5The Lege This Week: Who Cancels the Cancellers?

6The Lege This Week: Abbott Lets His Mask Slip

Most Recent in Environment:

1One Researcher’s Quest to Quantify the Environmental Cost of Abandoned Oil Wells

2Waves of Abandonment

3‘No Teeth and No Funding’: How Regulators Failed to Police the Oil Industry

4Texas Activists Took Their Fight Against a Natural Gas Project Abroad—And They’re Winning

5Nobody Warned Texans About the Public Health Risks of the Winter Storm

6Industrial Facilities Released Millions of Pounds of Illegal Pollution During the Winter Storm

Most Recent in Border:

1Texas Activists Took Their Fight Against a Natural Gas Project Abroad—And They’re Winning

2‘Not Celebrating Yet’: South Texans Wait for Biden to Cancel Trump’s Wall

3How Texas Courts Went Virtual

4In ‘At the Ready,’ Latinx High Schoolers Train to Be Border Patrol Agents

5Forgotten for Over a Century, Border Hero Jovita Idár Is Rediscovered by Her Hometown of Laredo

6Deaths in ICE Custody Skyrocketed During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1How Flawed Death Investigations Can Leave Texas COVID-19 Deaths Uncounted

2Editorial: Defund the Constables

3Uninvestigated, Uncounted: How Justices of the Peace Miss Important Clues in Death Investigations

4Clogged Toilets, Snow Inside: How the Winter Storm Exacerbated Problems in Texas Lock-Ups

6Exploring the Rise, Fall, and Lingering Trauma of the Death Penalty in Texas

Most Recent in Education:

1The Long, Winding Road that Led to the SBOE’s Decision for Texas Schools to Teach Abstinence-Plus Sex Education

2Efforts to Save What’s Left of Mary Allen Seminary Reveal The Challenges of Preserving Black Placemaking in Texas

3Texas Has the Widest Digital Divide in the Nation. What Does that Mean for the School Year?

4The New Ensemble

5Raise a Glass to the Class of COVID-19

6Tough Decisions Ahead for School Leaders in Rural Texas

Most Recent in Health Care:

1Portraits of the Pandemic: Part Two

2Editorial: Texas Wasn’t Prepared for the Statewide Vaccine Rush

3COVID-19’s Deadly Toll on Texas Workers

4COVID-19 Response has Been Starkly Different for Indigenous Communities in Texas

5After Sarah Davis’ Election Defeat, Texas Reproductive Health Advocates Worry About Losing a Powerful Republican Ally

6For Families That Lost Loved Ones or Jobs to the Pandemic, Thanksgiving Carries an Extra Weight This Year

Most Recent in The Interview:

1Researcher Howard Henderson on Reimagining Policing in the U.S.

2Texas Observer Founding Editor Ronnie Dugger Reflects on 65 Years of Publication

3How Katharine Hayhoe Stays Hopeful as the Planet Warms

4Author William Lopez on How Immigration Raids Inflict Long-Lasting Trauma

5Why a Texas Gun Control Activist is Optimistic About the Chances for Reform

6American Health Care is Broken, Especially in Texas. What Can We Do About It?

Most Recent in Books:

1Writer Rick Bass Fights for 20 Grizzly Bears

2‘Luz at Midnight’ Reimagines Blackouts, Polar Vortexes, and Environmental Justice in San Antonio

3Lady Bird Johnson Was About More Than Wildflowers

4“Wings of Ebony” Brings Black Girl Magic to Life

5A New Book Celebrates the Work of Architect John S. Chase

6The Flâneur of Downtown Dallas

Most Recent in Features:

1How to Die in Texas

2Young Texans Keep Spelling Bees Going From Home

4San Antonio Embraces Mandaean Refugees

5The Ghosts of Jefferson

6Little Arthouse on the Prairie

Most Recent in Essay:

1Editorial: Look Down Ballot for Democratic Wins in Texas

2What the Black Lives Matter Protests Mean for East Texas

3Raise a Glass to the Class of COVID-19

4What’s a Bookstore for?

5Lessons on the Long Game from Goose Island’s Whooping Cranes

6In a Pandemic, Poor Defendants Could Pay With Their Lives

Most Recent in Eye on Texas:

1Eye on Texas: The Essential Women of Austin

2Eye on Texas: A House Divided

3Eye on Texas: The Black Yearbook

4Eye on Texas: Border Tuner

5Eye on Texas: The Broken Wheel Ranch Project

6Eye on Texas: Spike Johnston

Most Recent in Poetry:

1Poet Claudia Delfina Cardona on Her Debut Poetry Chapbook

2Author Saeed Jones on Empathy, the Power of Memoir, and Growing up Gay in North Texas

3Remembering W.S. Merwin, Honorary Texan

4Lost in Limbo in the Hays County Jail

5Houston Poet Analicia Sotelo’s Debut Smashes Latino Stereotypes

6Parallel Planes

Articles tagged: Steve McCraw

Garnet Coleman

Lege Hearing Gets Tense Over Racial Profiling

Houston Democrat Garnet Coleman plans to file the Sandra Bland Act to promote statewide law enforcement reforms.

Tue, Sep 20, 2016 |

Houston Democrat Garnet Coleman plans to file the Sandra Bland Act to promote statewide law enforcement reforms....Read More

Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw

by Melissa del Bosque

DPS Goes International

Wed, May 7, 2014 |

Texas DPS has become the federal government’s newest partner in fighting the global war on drugs....Read More

by Melissa del Bosque

The Republican Primary Border War Dance

Thu, Feb 20, 2014 |

For the four Republican candidates vying to occupy the state’s second-highest office, including incumbent Dewhurst, talking tough on border security is a trie...Read More

The Capitol rotunda's ground floor full of state troopers

by Forrest Wilder and Patrick Michels

Poopgate Update: DPS Releases Documents

Mon, Aug 26, 2013 |

The Texas Department of Public Safety has released documents related to its security concerns around the State Capitol on the last night of the abortion bill de...Read More

The Capitol rotunda during the abortion debate.

by Forrest Wilder

DPS’ Crap Story

Sat, Aug 24, 2013 |

Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and the higher-ups at the Texas Department of Public Safety have only themselves to blame for poop-gate....Read More

by Forrest Wilder

David Dewhurst Claims He Saw ‘Bags of Feces’ at Capitol

Fri, Jul 19, 2013 |

For the last week, activists, lawmakers and media have demanded that DPS produce evidence that protestors tried to bring jars of urine and feces into the Senate...Read More

by Beth Cortez-Neavel

A Gun Show at the Capitol

Thu, Mar 14, 2013 |

There was a pro-gun rally at the Capitol on Wednesday afternoon. Normally those events take place in front of the Capitol, but this one occurred in the basement...Read More

Training video from Craft International.

by Cindy Casares

DPS’ Out-of-Control Border Wars

Wed, Jan 2, 2013 |

Since Gov. Rick Perry tasked Texas DPS with tighter border security, trigger-happy bureaucrats have turned the state into their own personal theater of war....Read More

Retired Army Maj. Gen. Robert Scales during a Sept. 27, 2011, appearance on Fox News to discuss his border-violence report.

by Melissa del Bosque

General Scales Still Angry Over Reception of 2011 Texas Report on Narco Terrorists

Mon, Dec 10, 2012 |

General Scales is still smarting from criticism he received last year from both Texas congressmen and the media after releasing his report “Texas Border Secur...Read More

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