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Most Recent in Politics:

1Loon Star State: Unemployment Benefits

2Paxton: ‘No Evidence’ Obama’s Clean Power Plan Will Mitigate Climate Change

3Texas Association of Business Comes Out Against Anti-Trans ‘Bathroom Bills’

4Once Again, School District Shuts Down Tax Break for Gas Exporter

5The Texas Miracle #23: She Fought the Law — and the Law Lost

6Lege Hearing Gets Tense Over Racial Profiling

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:

1Lege Hearing Gets Tense Over Racial Profiling

2Texas Judge Dismisses Trans Prisoner’s Lawsuit Seeking Gender Confirmation Surgery

3Citing Observer Report, Senators Vow Stronger Protection for Texans Under Guardianship

4Texas Activists Protest Modern-Day ‘Slavery’ in Prisons

5How a Tiny ‘Startup’ in Houston ISD is Reinventing Discipline for Thousands of Students

6The Texas Miracle #18: Our Best 40 Minutes (So Far)

Most Recent in Education:

1Hostile Takeover

2Once Again, School District Shuts Down Tax Break for Gas Exporter

3First School District Set to Join Parents’ Lawsuit Over STAAR

4Dallas ISD Considers Ending Suspensions for Young Students

5Hundreds Rally to Reject ‘Racist’ Mexican-American History Text

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

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: Texas Department of Public Safety

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.

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Tue, Sep 20, 2016 |

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

Chris Crawford speaks at a memorial for Sandra Bland

by Patrick Michels

Friends and Poets Remember Sandra Bland on the Anniversary of Her Arrest

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Mon, Jul 11, 2016 |

One year after a state trooper stopped Sandra Bland on Prairie View’s University Drive, a group gathered for songs, prayers and poetry to honor her and the fi...Read More

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by Forrest Wilder

The Borderlands, So Far from Austin

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Fri, Aug 28, 2015 |

Many a Lone Star politician has made, or boosted, his career by treating border communities as a theater of operations, where the normal rules don’t apply....Read More

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by Michelle Garcia

Resurrecting the Legacy of Selena

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Tue, Jun 16, 2015 |

When I imagine a present-day Selena, I see the star power packed in her smile, the feminine power in her hips, and I hear the love in her songs. But mostly, whe...Read More

Texas Department of Public Safety Border Security

Texas DPS Officer Shoots at Unarmed Vehicle

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Sun, Mar 1, 2015 |

With increased border militarization, South Texas is becoming a dangerous place for unarmed immigrants. ...Read More

Connie Wilson

Texas Woman Denied Driver’s License Over Same-Sex Marriage

Fri, Sep 19, 2014 |

A woman who recently relocated from California says the Texas Department of Public Safety refused to issue her an accurate driver's license because her last nam...Read More

Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw

by Melissa del Bosque

DPS Goes International

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Wed, May 7, 2014 |

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

by Emily DePrang

Fake Lab Results Endanger Thousands of Drug Convictions

Mon, Jul 8, 2013 |

Texas DPS discovered that an analyst at its forensics lab in Houston had falsified the results of a drug test. It was hardly just the one. ...Read More

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