Todd Hunter - The Texas Observer

Most Recent in Politics:

1Three Things the Judge Says He’ll Consider in Ruling on Texas Fetal Burial Law

2How Pete Sessions Lives the High Life on Corporate Donors’ Dime

3Texas Farmers are Fed Up With Trump’s Trade War, but Most Stop Short of Blaming Him

4Tom Steyer’s Impeachment Show Comes to Texas

5Deal Finalized to Revive Notorious 1,000-Bed South Texas Immigrant Detention Facility

6‘Shamed and Stigmatized’: Austin Woman Forced by Hospital to Bury Fetal Remains Testifies Against State Law

Most Recent in Environment:

1As Development Transforms the Hill Country, a Sand Mining Operation Worries Residents

2Report: Oil and Gas Production Is Making People Sick in Rural Texas

3After Decades of Living with Pollution, Relocation Program Offers Corpus Christi Residents a Way Out

4Sinking Land and Climate Change Are Worsening Tidal Floods on the Texas Coast

5How Disaster Recovery Overlooks the Poor

6Industrial Wood Processor Accused of Making East Texans Sick May Get to Pollute Even More

Most Recent in Border:

1Deal Finalized to Revive Notorious 1,000-Bed South Texas Immigrant Detention Facility

2‘Treated Worse than Dogs’: Immigrant Kids in Detention Give Firsthand Accounts of Squalid Conditions

3Legislation to Abolish ICE Indicates Movement is Gaining Mainstream Traction

4‘Recipe for Disaster’: New Family Detention Center Could Open in South Texas

5Loon Star: Due Process

6The Trump Administration Deported up to 12 Parents Without Their Very Young Children

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1Who Gets Mercy on Death Row? Chris Young’s Execution Raises Questions of Racial Bias

2Zero-Tolerance Policies Meant to Protect Against School Threats May Lead to Misguided Arrests

3Legislation to Abolish ICE Indicates Movement is Gaining Mainstream Traction

4College Degree Options Are Disappearing for Women in Texas Prisons

5After Years of Working with ‘Ritmo’ Detainees, I Know the Inhumane Facility Doesn’t Deserve a Second Chance

6Williamson County Votes to End Contract with Detention Facility Holding Separated Mothers

Most Recent in Education:

1Cash-Strapped Rural Texas Schools Look to Universities for Help

2What’s in a Name? Texas SBOE Tentatively Approves ‘Ethnic Studies: Mexican American Studies’

3SMU Just Lost Its Independent Student Newspaper. Is Your College Next?

4Lawsuit: Texas Art Teacher Suspended Because She Told Students About Her Wife

5Texas Teachers ‘Blow the Whistle’ After Conservatives Accuse Them of (Gasp!) Getting out the Vote

6Nazis Go To School

Most Recent in Health Care:

1‘Shamed and Stigmatized’: Austin Woman Forced by Hospital to Bury Fetal Remains Testifies Against State Law

2As a Pediatrician, I Know There’s No Way to Jail Migrant Families Without Hurting Kids

3New Lawsuit Challenges Dozens of Texas Anti-Abortion Restrictions

4Trump Sides with Ken Paxton to Argue Pre-Existing Conditions Protections are Unconstitutional

5‘We Love Our Neighbors, but It’s a Sin’: A Dispatch from a ‘Sex Ed Sitout’

6What Could Happen if Trump Cuts Family Planning Funds from Planned Parenthood? Look at Texas.

Most Recent in The Interview:

1The Interview: Veronica Escobar is Poised to Make History

2Redistricting Guru Michael Li on Texas’ Gerrymandered Maps

3Senfronia Thompson Says #MeToo: Texas Lawmaker on 45 Years of Sexism, Racism at the Capitol

4Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo on Sanctuary Cities, Police Unions and Tommy Guns

5Meet Nueces County’s New DA, a Self-Professed ‘Mexican Biker Lawyer Covered in Tattoos’

6The Interview: Joaquin Castro Says Texas Democrats are Poised for a Comeback

Most Recent in Books:

1In ‘Homelands,’ Alfredo Corchado Punctures the Myth of the American Dream

2Announcing the Eighth Annual Observer Short Story Contest

3A Vampire Book That Does Not Suck

4A Strange and Wonderful New Book Celebrates the Often-Ignored Work of Outsider Artists

5‘Driven’ is an Edgy Memoir of Cars, Crises and Coming of Age

6A Feminist Literary Classic Gets a Timely Reissue, and it’s Still Maddeningly Relevant

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: Todd Hunter

by Naveena Sadasivam

Barging In

How a felon with a fake name convinced a federal agency and the Texas General Land Office to fast-track a controversial project in Port Aransas.

Thu, Jan 5, 2017 |

BARGING IN How a felon with a fake name convinced a federal agency and the Texas General Land Office to fast-track a controversial project in Port Aransas. When...Read More

How Texas Became a New Front in Marijuana Legalization Fight

Tue, Jun 2, 2015 |

With strong right-wing bonafides, state Rep. David Simpson and lawmakers like him are leading a liberty-based charge to legalize marijuana in Texas....Read More

Open Records Bill Would Ensure More Emails and Texts Get Disclosed

by Beth Cortez-Neavel

Mon, Apr 1, 2013

Rep. Todd Hunter's bill adds messages from any phone or device used for official business—whether it's personal or government-owned—to the scope of public i...Read More

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