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Steven Monacelli - The Texas Observer
Steven Monacelli is a freelance investigative journalist in Dallas. His reporting has been featured in Rolling Stone, The Daily Beast, The Real News, Dallas Observer, Dallas Weekly, and more. He ...
What Electing A New Railroad Commissioner Means for Texans
February 25, 2022, 4:24 PM, CST. The race for a seat on the Texas Railroad Commission is getting some long-overdue attention—for all the wrong reasons. One of three seats on the Commission ...
Prison Visitation is a Lifeline for Incarcerated People. Why is TDJC ...
May 18, 2020 · Criminal Justice. Locked Out. Visitation is a critical lifeline for incarcerated people, yet some families say Texas prison officials ban them from seeing loved ones over petty or unproven claims ...
What Must Happen for Texas to Turn Blue - The Texas Observer
May 23, 2013 · For Texas to ever become competitive for them, Democrats will need to lock down Harris County. Home to 4.2 million Texans, almost 70 percent of whom are non-white, Houston is the present and ...
Who Runs Texas? - The Texas Observer
Jul 30, 2010 · Who Runs Texas? by Dave McNeely. July 30, 2010, 3:50 PM, CDT. A long standing argument is that the lieutenant governor of Texas is more powerful than the governor. It’s that way by design ...
Chasing the Chupacabra, a Lone Star State Legend - The Texas …
Oct 27, 2016 · I n the summer of 1995, a wave of livestock killings rocked the towns of rural Puerto Rico. The victims were found with wounds at their throats, seemingly empty of blood. Without a culprit, dark ...
Why Don't Texans Vote? - The Texas Observer
October 7, 2010, 3:51 PM, CDT. By now it’s a familiar, even worn-out, storyline: In 2008, a surge of new and newly-energized voters helped propel Barack Obama into the White House. Voter turnout ...
A Decade of Texas Health Care By The Numbers
Dec 26, 2019 · Statewide, the shortage of primary care physicians is expected to grow from about 2,000 to nearly 3,400 in the next 10 years. Number of abortion clinics. Guttmacher Institute. About half of Texas ...
A Century After the Porvenir Massacre, Remembering One of …
January 31, 2018, 9:24 AM, CST. On January 28, 1918, a band of Texas Rangers and ranchers raided the tiny Presidio County village of Porvenir in the middle of the night. The rangers were angry ...