Most Recent in Texas Politics:

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4The COVID-19 Disaster Has Made a Mess of Texas’ Open Government Rules

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6A ‘Stay-at-Home’ Order by Any Other Name

Most Recent in Environment:

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3Editorial: Air Pollution Was Already Killing Us. Then Came the Coronavirus. Why Won’t the EPA Act?

4City Nature Challenge Can Help Us Find Resilience and Mindfulness at Home

5Lessons on the Long Game from Goose Island’s Whooping Cranes

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Most Recent in Border:

1Between Borders

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4In Migrants Camps Along the Texas-Mexico Border, Close Quarters and Closing Borders Raise Concerns

5U.S. Supreme Court Sides with Trump Administration on ‘Remain in Mexico’

6Following a Protest, ICE Moves Asylum-Seekers For the Second Time in Two Weeks

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1As COVID-19 Cases Surge, Some Incarcerated People Remain Behind Bars After Making Bail

2A Major Obstacle to Police Reform: The Whiteness of Their Union Bosses

3COVID-19 Has Delayed Programs That Texas Prisoners Need to Get Out

4Why Is APD Responding to Mental Health Crises like Violent Crimes?

6How COVID-19 Upended Texas Prisons

Most Recent in Education:

1The New Ensemble

2Raise a Glass to the Class of COVID-19

3Tough Decisions Ahead for School Leaders in Rural Texas

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5The Creature of Martin Creek Lake Won’t Die

6The Cost of Carve-Outs

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2Promising Results Reported for COVID-19 Patients Treated with Plasma Therapy in Texas

3The Traveling Midwife

4In Rural Texas, COVID-19 Contact Tracing is Largely Up to Local Officials, If It Happens at All

5Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins on Battling COVID-19, and the Governor, as Texas Reopens

6With Storage Space Evaporating, the Oil and Gas Industry Will Get to Put Its Products Back Underground

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2How Katharine Hayhoe Stays Hopeful as the Planet Warms

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4Why a Texas Gun Control Activist is Optimistic About the Chances for Reform

5American Health Care is Broken, Especially in Texas. What Can We Do About It?

6Thousands of Rape Kits in Texas Went Untested For Years. Lavinia Masters Is Ending That.

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3What’s a Bookstore for?

4In ‘All I Ever Wanted,’ Kathy Valentine Reclaims Her Narrative

5A New Book on the Sutherland Springs Shooting Explores Resilience, Forgiveness, and Grace

6‘Trust Me’ Tackles Politics, Power, and Perception

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4The Ghosts of Jefferson

5Little Arthouse on the Prairie

6The Clothes that Make the Man

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3What’s a Bookstore for?

4Lessons on the Long Game from Goose Island’s Whooping Cranes

5In a Pandemic, Poor Defendants Could Pay With Their Lives

6Loneliness in the Age of Coronavirus

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3Eye on Texas: Spike Johnston

4Eye on Texas: Loren Elliott

5Eye on Texas: Charlotte Moore

6Eye on Texas: ‘My Joyful Dance’

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1Author Saeed Jones on Empathy, the Power of Memoir, and Growing up Gay in North Texas

2Remembering W.S. Merwin, Honorary Texan

3Lost in Limbo in the Hays County Jail

4Houston Poet Analicia Sotelo’s Debut Smashes Latino Stereotypes

5Parallel Planes

Articles tagged: UT-Brownsville

by Patrick Michels

King’s Gambit

Daniel King's quiet mission to transform public education in South Texas.

Mon, Sep 14, 2015 |

The early college movement is growing fast today — a free head start on higher education is especially alluring in a time of boundless student debt — and Da...Read More

health care

by Daniel Blue Tyx

Insurgent Medicine

Physicians hope to revolutionize health care in the Valley with a simple prescription — access.

Tue, Sep 8, 2015 |

If community outreach and primary care for the uninsured save lives and money, why aren’t we doing more of it in places like the Valley? The answer lies partl...Read More

A water tower marked for UT-Brownsville and Texas Southmost College

by Beth Cortez-Neavel

Laid-Off UT-Brownsville Faculty Sue, Claiming School Ignored their Tenure Rights

Fri, Feb 21, 2014 |

Three professors filed a suit against the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, escalating a two-year battle over tenure rights....Read More

A water tower marked for UT-Brownsville and Texas Southmost College

by Beth Cortez-Neavel

In Brownsville, Two Colleges Split and a Community Suffers

The separation of UT-Brownsville and Texas Southmost College leads to hundreds of layoffs.

Wed, May 22, 2013 |

The separation of UT-Brownsville and Texas Southmost College leads to hundreds of layoffs. ...Read More

by Beth Cortez-Neavel

Professor Sues Over Layoff in UT-Brownsville, Texas Southmost Split

Mon, Apr 29, 2013 |

Susan Mills, a professor at the University of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College, is suing the university officials who fired her—apparently the fir...Read More

by Beth Cortez-Neavel

Senate Higher Ed Committee Approves UT-Pan American/UT-Brownsville Merger

Wed, Mar 6, 2013 |

The Senate Higher Education Committee passed a slightly amended version of SB 24, the bill merging UT-Brownsville and UT-Pan American, after testimony from UT S...Read More

by Beth Cortez-Neavel

Lawmakers Consider New South Texas University in Emotional Hearing

Wed, Feb 20, 2013 |

Lawmakers held an emotional first hearing Wednesday on a proposal to merge the University of Texas-Pan American and UT-Brownsville into a new mega-university fo...Read More

by Beth Cortez-Neavel

It’s More than Just Ceremony for Citizen-Lobbyists at Capitol

Wed, Jan 30, 2013 |

For many, a trip to the Capitol doesn’t just mean sitting in the gallery for a few minutes until the applause is over, it can also mean a day of petitio...Read More

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