Texas Legislature Coverage from the Texas Observer

Most Recent in Politics:

1Inside the Coordinated Attack on a North Texas Wind Farm

2Ken Paxton Wants to Eliminate the ACA’s Pre-Existing Condition Protections. How Would That Affect Texans?

3Freeport’s East End Began in Segregation and Will End with Displacement

4Documents Show Financial Entanglements Between Trump’s USDA Pick and Agribusiness

5The Violence of Trump’s Words

6How Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court Appointment Would Affect Texans’ Air, Water and Land

Most Recent in Environment:

1Inside the Coordinated Attack on a North Texas Wind Farm

2How Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court Appointment Would Affect Texans’ Air, Water and Land

3To Bag or Not to Bag: Retailers at a Crossroads after Texas Supreme Court Strikes Bag Ban

4Former TCEQ Employee Files Race and Age Discrimination Lawsuit Against Agency

5Heads in the Mud

6Why is Texas’ Leading GOP Think Tank Suddenly All-In on an Anti-Wind Crusade?

Most Recent in Border:

1A San Antonio Art Show Quietly Foregrounds Migrants’ Stories

2Eye on Texas: Fiesta Protesta

3How Texas Cops Turn Mental Health Crises into Deportations

4El Paso is on the Cutting Edge of Water Conservation. It Really Has No Choice.

5Dams and Reservoirs Won’t Save Us. This is the New Future of Water Infrastructure.

6The Next Megadrought in the American Southwest May Be Right Around the Corner

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1The Prosecution Rests

2How the Police Shooting of Botham Jean Disrupted Dallas’ Reputation for Reform

3Waco Immigrant Mom Sues Private Prison Corporation over Alleged Sexual Abuse

4A Houston Art Exhibit Gazes Unflinchingly at the Cruelty of Mass Incarceration

5Videos of Dallas Bail Hearings Show Assembly-Line Justice in Action

6The Murder Conviction of Dallas-area Cop Roy Oliver is Nothing Short of Extraordinary

Most Recent in Education:

1In Violation of Texas Law, Most High Schools Aren’t Giving Students the Chance to Register to Vote

2Amid Record Youth Suicide Attempts, Texas Lags in Prevention Training for Teachers

3Cash-Strapped Rural Texas Schools Look to Universities for Help

4What’s in a Name? Texas SBOE Tentatively Approves ‘Ethnic Studies: Mexican American Studies’

5SMU Just Lost Its Independent Student Newspaper. Is Your College Next?

6Lawsuit: Texas Art Teacher Suspended Because She Told Students About Her Wife

Most Recent in Health Care:

1Ken Paxton Wants to Eliminate the ACA’s Pre-Existing Condition Protections. How Would That Affect Texans?

2Judge Blocks Texas’ ‘Near Catastrophic’ Fetal Burial Law

3Reformers Hopeful the 2019 Legislature will Expand Texas’ Medical Marijuana Law

4How Anti-Abortion Activists are Training Their ‘Next Generation of Pro-Life Leaders’

5Professor Trill

6Tinkering with the Human Heart in ‘Ticker’

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:

1Heartland is an Honest, Poetic Meditation on Class in America

2Leaving the Gay Place Lights a Candle for the Patron Saint of Austin’s Counterculture

3‘Trinity’ Offers a Beautifully Fragmented Portrait of the Inventor of the Nuclear Bomb

4A New History Tears Down the Myth of the Texas Rangers

5Sarah Bird’s Lively New Novel Resurrects a Little-Known Civil War Hero

6‘Presidio’ is a Beautiful, Atmospheric Texas Novel that Doesn’t Cohere

Most Recent in Postcards:

1Raspa Revolution

2The Time-Traveler’s Guide to the Lower Pecos

5Field Notes from Santa Ana

6The King of Pulp

Most Recent in Essay:

1Heads in the Mud

2The Day the Windows Shook

3Women’s Work

4I Grew Up on the Texas-Mexico Border, but Now I Barely Recognize It

5Somewhere It Hides a Well

6Drinking the Kool-Aid at the Garden of Eden

Most Recent in Eye on Texas:

1Eye on Texas: Fiesta Protesta

2Eye on Texas: Gentrification in East Austin

3Eye on Texas: Transgender Youth in Texas

4Eye On Texas: Hurricane Harvey

5Eye on Texas: Fantastical Taxidermy

6Eye on Texas: Runners Take on 170-Mile Race in Big Bend

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’

The 85th Texas Legislature’s first special session is underway, and we’re keeping a keen eye on everything happening in the House and the Senate.

The Lege

by Christopher Collins

Environment

Inside the Coordinated Attack on a North Texas Wind Farm

by Michael Barajas

Civil Rights

Freeport’s East End Began in Segregation and Will End with Displacement

News

‘Landmark’ Wage Theft Conviction Overturned by Texas Appeals Court

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Headlines

How Texas Cops Turn Mental Health Crises into Deportations

ICE Issues More Detainers in Texas, Withholds Crucial Data

ICE Arrestó Casi Tres Veces Más Inmigrantes De Lo Reportado Durante las Redadas del Año Pasado en Austin

ICE Arrested Nearly Three Times as Many Immigrants During Last Year’s Austin Raid Than Previously Reported

Year in Review: Loon Star State

The ‘Sanctuary Cities’ Ban Has Already Reshaped Some Police Department Policies

Court Revives Possibility that Texas Sheriffs Could be Jailed for Refusing ICE Detainers

Some Republicans are Defending an Imaginary Version of Senate Bill 4

Texas’ War on Local Control is Part of National Trend

Activistas Adolescentes Interpretan Quinceañeras en Protesta contra SB 4 en el Capitolio

by Ignacio Martinez

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