An Inside Look at Taser Use in Texas Prison
Editor’s Note: The Texas Observer sought TDCJ responses to this essay, which were incorporated into ...View More
Marathon Hearing on School Vouchers Features Intense Bipartisan Opposition
State Representative Brad Buckley, Republican House public education committee chair and author of t ...View More
Earth Orbit Is Filling Up with Junk. Greenhouse Gases Worsen the Problem.
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How Voucher Vendors Could Make Millions from ‘School Choice’ in Texas
In August 2024, the business magazine Inc. released its annual list of the top 5,000 fastest-growing ...View More
What Ever Happened to Ethics Reform?
In the early 1970s, Texas experienced one of the most explosive political scandals in its history. H ...View More
Amid Texas Measles Outbreak, Conservatives Double Down on Anti-Vax Crusade
Texas is experiencing its largest outbreak of the measles virus in 30 years. As of March 4, the stat ...View More
Loon Star State: Remember When…
All of the Texas Observer’s articles are available for free syndication for news sources under the f ...View More
ICE Raids on Beloved Bakery Reverberate Through Rio Grande Valley
In recent years, Los Fresnos has changed, much like the rest of the Rio Grande Valley. More retail c ...View More
David Wood, Set for Execution, Says He Was Never the ‘Desert Killer’
Young women had been disappearing from the streets of El Paso for months before the first bodies wer ...View More
What a Drag: Nate Schatzline
Editor’s Note: This article is part of an occasional series profiling the Texas lawmakers who make u ...View More
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