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Most Recent in Politics:

1Santa Ana’s Last Stand?

2Houston City Employees are Fighting to Uphold Marriage Equality in Texas

3Special Session a ‘Battle Royal’ for Dominionists Who Seek Christian Rule

4How ‘Mad Moms in Minivans’ Injected Themselves into Texas’ Anti-Vaccine Debate

5National Butterfly Center Founder: Trump’s Border Wall Prep ‘Trampling on Private Property Rights’

6New San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg on Priorities, Progressives and the Legislature

Most Recent in Environment:

1Santa Ana’s Last Stand?

2The Rising Storm

3Introducing the Texas Observer’s Rural Reporting Project

4Texas Warbler Suit Could Test Trump Administration’s Handling of Endangered Species

5Gulf Coast Environmental Group Sues Plastic Company After Slow Response from TCEQ

6The Texas Legislature’s Chainsaw Massacre

Most Recent in Border:

1Santa Ana’s Last Stand?

2Stalking Horse

3National Butterfly Center Founder: Trump’s Border Wall Prep ‘Trampling on Private Property Rights’

4‘El Peso Hero’ is the 21st-Century Borderland Superhero Texas Needs

515 Protesters Arrested After Demonstration Defending DACA at Texas Capitol

6Trump’s New Immigration Lockup Draws Local Opposition in Conroe

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1Deputies Go Unpunished for Invasive Cavity Search on Houston Roadside

2Meet the Expert Who Helps Texas Cops Justify Extreme Behavior

3Why Dallas is One of the Few Places Killer Cops Could be Held Accountable

4Compassionate (Ab)use: Family Battles Texas over Medical Marijuana

515 Protesters Arrested After Demonstration Defending DACA at Texas Capitol

6Trump’s New Immigration Lockup Draws Local Opposition in Conroe

Most Recent in Education:

1Dan Patrick Accuses Joe Straus of Ponzi Scheme Ahead of Special Session

2Critics Fear New Texas Law Giving SBOE Wide Discretion Over Textbooks

3After Freedom Caucus Kills Her Legislation, Lawmaker Announces Anti-‘Lunch Shaming’ Campaign

4Texas’ ‘Lunch Shaming’ Problem and the Fight to Fix It

5CPS Caseworker: Lawmakers Are ‘Shifting the Blame’ by Privatizing Child Welfare System

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

Most Recent in Health Care:

1Introducing the Texas Observer’s Rural Reporting Project

2Red is the New Orange: Handmaids Bring More than Just Silence to the Abortion Fight

3Compassionate (Ab)use: Family Battles Texas over Medical Marijuana

4What a Ban on Insurance for Abortions Means for Women with High-Risk Pregnancies

5Lawsuit Filed Against New Texas Abortion Law

6Texas Bill Would Revoke Medical Licenses of Doctors Who Perform Abortions

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:

1The Rising Storm

2Stalking Horse

3Seven Texas Indie Booksellers on Their Favorite Books of the Year (So Far)

4‘El Peso Hero’ is the 21st-Century Borderland Superhero Texas Needs

5‘The Hour of Land,’ Terry Tempest Williams’ Love Letter to National Parks

6Announcing the Seventh Annual Observer Short Story Contest

Most Recent in Postcards:

1Ride Like a Girl

6Feathering Their Nest

Most Recent in Essay:

1Dear Governor Abbott: The ‘Bathroom Bill’ Endangers Trans Texans Like My Son

2Stalking Horse

3Protecting Immigrant Families: A Call for an Economic Boycott of Texas

4Cut from the Same Cloth: Wearing Hijab in Houston, Post-Trump

5Going It Alone

6The Observer’s Founding Editor: ‘Bring the Fight Back’ to Texas Politics

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:

1Parallel Planes

3Poem: ‘Resistance’

4Poem: ‘Screenplay for a Homemade Movie’

5Poem: ‘To Be One with the All’

6Poem: ‘Whitewashing’

Tag Archives: Texas

by Melissa del Bosque

United Nations: Children Crossing the Border Qualify for Asylum

Thu, Mar 13, 2014 |

A majority of the unaccompanied Mexican and Central American children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border should qualify for political asylum, according to the Unit...Read More

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

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