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Most Recent in Politics:

1Parents: Schools Using Transgender Suit As Cover to Discriminate

2The Texas Miracle #24: Rick Perry’s Last Dance

3Hooks: Dems are Missing Their Chance to Give Obama His Transformational Legacy

4Loon Star State: Unemployment Benefits

5Paxton: ‘No Evidence’ Obama’s Clean Power Plan Will Mitigate Climate Change

6Texas Association of Business Comes Out Against Anti-Trans ‘Bathroom Bills’

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:

1South Texas School Security Guard Arrested After Allegedly Throwing Girl to Ground

2Lege Hearing Gets Tense Over Racial Profiling

3Texas Judge Dismisses Trans Prisoner’s Lawsuit Seeking Gender Confirmation Surgery

4Citing Observer Report, Senators Vow Stronger Protection for Texans Under Guardianship

5Texas Activists Protest Modern-Day ‘Slavery’ in Prisons

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

Most Recent in Education:

1Texas State Quietly Removes Confederate Monument

2Some Texas Schools are Still Fighting Decades-Old Desegregation Orders

3Parents: Schools Using Transgender Suit As Cover to Discriminate

4South Texas School Security Guard Arrested After Allegedly Throwing Girl to Ground

5Hostile Takeover

6Once Again, School District Shuts Down Tax Break for Gas Exporter

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

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

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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

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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

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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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by Forrest Wilder

Funding for State Water Plan Derailed in the House

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Mon, Apr 29, 2013 |

While rain slicked the streets of Austin, lawmakers heatedly debated legislation that would use $2 billion from the state's Rainy Day Fund to fund the state wat...Read More

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by Forrest Wilder

Texas Senate OKs ‘Hotter’ Waste for West Texas

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Tue, Apr 23, 2013 |

Harold Simmons' West Texas radioactive waste empire got a boost today after the Texas Senate passed legislation allowing Waste Control Specialists to accept "ho...Read More

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State of Texas: Who Pays How Much In Taxes

Thu, Apr 18, 2013 |

Texas' tax system is one of the most regressive in the country, meaning it falls especially hard on the poor....Read More

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