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

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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’

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Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

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3A Major Obstacle to Police Reform: The Whiteness of Their Union Bosses

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Most Recent in Education:

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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

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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

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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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3Is it Time to Rethink Texas Suburbia?

4What’s a Bookstore for?

5In ‘All I Ever Wanted,’ Kathy Valentine Reclaims Her Narrative

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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?

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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

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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

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4Houston Poet Analicia Sotelo’s Debut Smashes Latino Stereotypes

5Parallel Planes

Texas Politics

Voter Intimidation in Houston? The View from Acres Homes

Where are the controversial poll watchers? "Just look for the white people."

by Abby Rapoport

Fri, Oct 29, 2010

For a longer analysis of the voting controversies in Harris County, see our story here. Chris Alfred was prepared when he arrived at the Acres Homes Multi-Servi...Read More

The Extra-Lite Gov

How David Dewhurst diminished the state's most powerful office.

Thu, Oct 28, 2010

This story was corrected and updated on Nov. 4. During the 2007 session of the Texas Legislature, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst brought the Senate to near-mutiny. It ...Read More

Kino Flores and Patron Politics

by Melissa del Bosque

Wed, Oct 27, 2010

Are old-school Patron style politics in South Texas dying out? The guilty verdict today in the trial of state Rep. Ismael “Kino” Flores, a Democrat from Pal...Read More

Black Tea

In Lufkin, a Republican newcomer challenges

by Abby Rapoport

Wed, Oct 27, 2010

At the Texas State Forest Festival in Lufkin in late September, people wandered among tall pine trees eating funnel cake and watching local kids in the dance te...Read More

Sleuth in Advertising

by Tyler Stoddard Smith

Wed, Oct 27, 2010

It’s the sad truth: Many Texans cast their votes based on political ads running incessantly on prime-time television. To give viewers some perspective on this...Read More

James White visiting locals during the Lufkin Juneteenth Celebration, 2010

Who Will Control East Texas?

Wed, Oct 27, 2010 |

Abby Rapoport, staff writer for The Texas Observer, travels to East Texas to take the political temperature....Read More

The Mystery on Falcon Lake

by Melissa del Bosque

Tue, Oct 26, 2010

What to make of the alleged murder of David Hartley while riding his jet ski on Falcon Lake? Last week, his wife Tiffany moved their things out of their McAllen...Read More

Political Wish List: Honest Talk About Economics, Empire, and Energy

by Robert Jensen

Tue, Oct 26, 2010

There’s no shortage of political blather in this year’s mid-term election campaigns, but most of us yearn for substantive discussion of the serious problems...Read More

Backyard Brawls

ROSE VS. ISAAC

by Texas Observer Staff

Tue, Oct 26, 2010

“Good thing we’ve still got politics in Texas — finest form of free entertainment ever invented.” -Molly Ivins From now until Oct. 29, w...Read More

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