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Most Recent in Politics:

1Critics Fear New Texas Law Giving SBOE Wide Discretion Over Textbooks

2The GOP Health Plan Would Give Governor Greg Abbott Power Over Your Coverage

3Over the Wall: How Texas Border Communities Are Gearing Up to Fight Trump

4State Attorneys: Senate Bill 4 Is ‘Moderate’ Compared to Arizona’s ‘Papers, Please’ Law

5Protesters Surround Courthouse as First Major SB 4 Hearing Begins

6This Week: Texans’ Health Under Attack by Republican Lawmakers

Most Recent in Environment:

1Over the Wall: How Texas Border Communities Are Gearing Up to Fight Trump

2Getting Wise to Bad Air: North Texans Take Smog Monitoring Into Own Hands

3Mean to Green: How the Texas Legislature Took its Toll on the Environment This Session

4Governor Abbott’s Beef with Tree Ordinances Has Its Roots in a Pecan Tree He Destroyed to Build a New Home

5After 17 Years, EPA Settles Racial Discrimination Case Against TCEQ

6Texans Could Soon Be Jailed for Flying Drones over Oil Facilities, Animal Factory Farms

Most Recent in Border:

1Over the Wall: How Texas Border Communities Are Gearing Up to Fight Trump

2State Attorneys: Senate Bill 4 Is ‘Moderate’ Compared to Arizona’s ‘Papers, Please’ Law

3Protesters Surround Courthouse as First Major SB 4 Hearing Begins

4Lo que Necesitas Saber sobre la Batalla Legal de SB 4

5What You Need to Know About the SB 4 Legal Battle

6After Five Years in Exile, Mexican Journalist Fears He’ll Never Be Able to Go Home

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1State Attorneys: Senate Bill 4 Is ‘Moderate’ Compared to Arizona’s ‘Papers, Please’ Law

2Attorney: Matt Rinaldi’s Call to ICE Will Likely Be Used Against SB 4 in Lawsuit

3Indicted Senator Carlos Uresti Exchanged Campaign Funds with Alleged Co-Conspirators

4Texas Republican Called ICE on SB 4 Protesters, Threatened to Shoot Colleague

53 A.M. ‘Sanctuary’ Protest at Governor Abbott’s Mansion Blares Mariachi Music

6Texans Could Soon Be Jailed for Flying Drones over Oil Facilities, Animal Factory Farms

Most Recent in Education:

1Critics Fear New Texas Law Giving SBOE Wide Discretion Over Textbooks

2After Freedom Caucus Kills Her Legislation, Lawmaker Announces Anti-‘Lunch Shaming’ Campaign

3Texas’ ‘Lunch Shaming’ Problem and the Fight to Fix It

4CPS Caseworker: Lawmakers Are ‘Shifting the Blame’ by Privatizing Child Welfare System

5‘Academic Freedom’ Bill Provides Cover to Teach Creationism, Climate Denial in Classrooms

6‘Another Book, Another Month, Another Day Closer to You’

Most Recent in Health Care:

1The GOP Health Plan Would Give Governor Greg Abbott Power Over Your Coverage

2This Week: Texans’ Health Under Attack by Republican Lawmakers

3Who Really Gets Government Benefits In Texas?

4How the Texas Legislature Reached a Dangerous Stalemate on Vaccines

5Getting Wise to Bad Air: North Texans Take Smog Monitoring Into Own Hands

6How Texas’ Anti-Abortion Lawmakers Win Even While Losing in Court

Most Recent in The Interview:

1The Interview: Joaquin Castro Says Texas Democrats are Poised for a Comeback

2The Interview: Beto O’Rourke on Trump, the Border and How to Revive the Democratic Party

3The Interview: Tom ‘Smitty’ Smith

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:

1‘The Potlikker Papers’ Wants You to Eat Your Grits with a Side of Discomfort

2We Were the Safety Net

3‘Cornyation’ Celebrates San Antonio’s Most Fabulous Fiesta Tradition

4Valeria Luiselli’s ‘Tell Me How It Ends’ Is the First Must-Read Book of the Trump Era

5In the Age of Trump, the First All-Latino Sci-Fi Anthology Hits too Close to Home

6In ‘Blue Texas,’ a Historical Blueprint for Texas Activists

Most Recent in Postcards:

5Feathering Their Nest

6The Business of Burying Horses

Most Recent in Essay:

1Going It Alone

2The Observer’s Founding Editor: ‘Bring the Fight Back’ to Texas Politics

3A Texan’s Political Guide to Resisting Trump

4The Resistance Against Donald Trump Begins in Texas

5What a 1940 Novel Can Teach Us About Fighting Trump

6A Single Mom’s Search for ‘School Choice’ in Texas

Most Recent in Eye on Texas:

1Eye on Texas: Runners Take on 170-Mile Race in Big Bend

2Eye on Texas: Liberty Hill Hosts Texas Firearms Festival

3Eye on Texas: TX Open Swim

4Eye on Texas: Blessing of the Hands in San Antonio

5Eye on Texas: Austin’s Chapels

6Eye on Texas: Portico Tejas

Most Recent in Poetry:

2Poem: ‘Resistance’

3Poem: ‘Screenplay for a Homemade Movie’

4Poem: ‘To Be One with the All’

5Poem: ‘Whitewashing’

6Poem: ‘Rice and Beans’

Tag Archives: Texas

by Melissa del Bosque

What Happened to Immigrant Detention Reform?

Tue, Dec 3, 2013 |

Back in 2009, the Obama administration promised reform of the massive, mostly for-profit U.S. immigrant detention system. Immigrant advocates are still waiting....Read More

Kate Galbraith and Asher Price talk Texas Energy at BookPeople

by Nick Swartsell

Leave a comment | Thu, Aug 8, 2013

Few people in Texas know more about the state's energy promises and pitfalls than Kate Galbraith and Asher Price. They recently teamed up for The Great Texas Wi...Read More

by Forrest Wilder

Conservative Think Tanker Proposes Tax Cuts to Pay for West Disaster

Fri, Aug 2, 2013 |

Texas Public Policy Foundation deep thinker John Davidson proposes tax cuts for businesses to help West, Texas recover from the April fertilizer explosion....Read More

Texas Pride is a Rollercoaster Ride

by Nick Swartsell

4 Comments | Tue, Jul 23, 2013

Watching Lewis Black’s already-famous takedown of Rick Perry last Wednesday on The Daily Show with some native Texans was a rollercoaster ride that opened...Read More

Sen. Wendy Davis (D-Fort Worth). Texas Democrats

Wendy Davis on the Abortion Fight and the Future of Women’s Health in Texas

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Sat, Jul 13, 2013 |

Sen. Wendy Davis talks with the Observer about the state of women’s health in Texas....Read More

Hundreds testify against bills that would restrict abortion in Texas.

by Carolyn Jones

UPDATED: Extraordinary Turnout for Citizen’s Filibuster of Anti-Abortion Bills

Fri, Jun 21, 2013 |

Updated at 2:05 PM: Early this afternoon, the House State Affairs committee met for 10 minutes to vote on HB 60, HB 6 and SB 5. The committee approved HB 60, ...Read More

Texas 9-Pin Bowling

by Spencer Selvidge

Eye On Texas: 9-Pin Bowling

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Wed, Jun 5, 2013 |

I grew up in an extended family of bowlers, but once I moved to Texas bowling was pretty much out of my life. While I was earning my master’s degree in photoj...Read More

State of Texas May 2013 featured

State of Texas: The Road to 500 Executions

Fri, May 17, 2013 |

Texas will soon execute its 500th person since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976....Read More

by Melissa del Bosque

Central American Migrants Advocate for Immigration Reform in ‘Caravan of Hope’

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Fri, May 10, 2013 |

Last year 23-year-old Pedro Aguilar left his home in Honduras to take the perilous journey north to the United States. His dreams for a better life in the north...Read More

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