Texas Rangers - The Texas Observer

Most Recent in Politics:

1Texas Officials Allow 15 Immigrant Shelters to Hold More Kids than Licenses Permit

2The ‘Crazies’ Have Fully Taken Over the Texas GOP

3What Texas Republicans Are (and Aren’t) Saying About Trump’s Family Separation Policy

4Southern Baptists Grapple with Their Own ‘Horrifying #MeToo Moment’

5Ted Cruz and State Republicans Make Clear: This is Trump’s Texas Now

6Ken Paxton: ‘The More We Talk About Gun Regulation, the More People Are Gonna Die’

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:

1Texas Officials Allow 15 Immigrant Shelters to Hold More Kids than Licenses Permit

2What Texas Republicans Are (and Aren’t) Saying About Trump’s Family Separation Policy

4ICE Issues More Detainers in Texas, Withholds Crucial Data

5In Presidio, a New Public Art Project Crosses Borders

6Trump’s Border Wall Lands Rio Grande on List of Nation’s Most Endangered Rivers

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1Texas Officials Allow 15 Immigrant Shelters to Hold More Kids than Licenses Permit

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

3In Austin, ‘Discretionary’ Arrests for Petty Crimes Skew Blacker, Browner Than City Population

5Something Has Changed in the Gun Debate in Texas

6Ahead of Mother’s Day, Activists Bail Out Young Black Moms Across Texas

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: Texas Rangers

by Michael Barajas

Texas Juvenile Justice System Loses an Advocate, Gains Another Career Cop

Advocates fear Abbott’s replacement of juvenile justice watchdog hints at new “law enforcement approach” to transparency at the troubled agency.

Fri, Feb 2, 2018 |

Lawmakers and advocates have loudly demanded changes at the Texas Juvenile Justice Department (TJJD) since the beleaguered agency’s latest high-profile embarr...Read More

by Josh Rosenblatt

Robert Duvall’s Unexamined Melodrama, ‘Wild Horses’

Mon, Jul 27, 2015 |

Robert Duvall's new Western, Wild Horses, tells the story of a Texas Ranger who uncovers a 15-year-old missing persons case. But instead of becoming a ...Read More

by John Carlos Frey

Graves of Shame

New evidence indicates wrongdoing in the handling of migrant remains in Brooks County.

Mon, Jul 6, 2015 |

A year ago, a Texas Rangers inquiry found “no evidence” of wrongdoing in the botched handling of migrant remains in Brooks County. New evidence indicates ra...Read More

by Jose Skinner

Book Review: How NAFTA Transformed a Mexican Border Town

Wed, Apr 22, 2015 |

Boom, Bust, Exodus follows how NAFTA, coupled with Maytag’s move to Mexico, helped signal doom for Appliance City and transform a small border town....Read More

Rep. Phil King (R-Weatherford)

by Christopher Hooks

House Moves to Protect State Officials From the Public Integrity Unit

Tue, Apr 21, 2015 |

For years, Texas Republicans have aimed to weaken the Travis County DAs Public Integrity Unit. On Tuesday, they got one step closer....Read More

Comanche powwow in Fredericksburg.

by Nick Swartsell

Fort in the Road

Wed, Sep 11, 2013 |

The Texas Rangers Heritage Center will be built on a now-vacant lot next to the Fort Martin Scott—a space that until recently hosted Comanche powwows....Read More

Nathan Pierce cover art

by Diana Claitor

The Passage of Nathan Pierce

At 32, Nathan Pierce was turning his life around. Then he sought help from Texas' mental-health system.

Tue, Jun 11, 2013 |

Nathan Pierce sought mental help. Grayson County Officer Steven Sloan was charged with delivering him to a mental hospital. Pierce never made it. ...Read More

Top