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Dec 26, 2024 · Inside this month's print issue Texas’ War on Drug Users. A mass overdose event in Austin reveals the state’s backward approach to the ongoing crisis spurred by fentanyl and other super-potent ...
Texas Is Taking Back the State Highway 288 Tollway—at a Steep …
Oct 9, 2024 · News. Texas Is Taking Back the State Highway 288 Tollway—at a Steep Price. The private firms who have operated the tollway will be paid $1.7 billion by TxDOT, adding to the profit they’ve ...
Lost in Austin: Climate Change, Displacement, and Race in the …
Sep 24, 2024 · Lost in Austin: The Evolution of an American City is, as the title suggests, about the Texas capital. But it’s no travelog. It’s a book about gentrification and climate change and race and ...
In the Rio Grande Valley, the Red Wave Makes Landfall
Nov 6, 2024 · Four long years ago, much ado was made about the inroads made by then-President Donald Trump in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, the four-county region of 1.4 million mostly Hispanic residents at the ...
'There Have to Be Limits': Lawsuit Urges Scorching Prisons to Cool …
Apr 22, 2024 · Last June, Bernhardt Tiede suffered a likely stroke while living in a prison cell that regularly got up to around 110 degrees Fahrenheit. The 65-year-old—whose story inspired the 2011 Richard ...
September/October 2024 - The Texas Observer
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Greg Abbott’s Border 'Theatrics' Now Include Acting Like the State ...
Oct 3, 2024 · Governor Greg Abbott is, once again, using the border to test the bounds of his authority. Last month, Abbott designated Tren de Aragua, a transnational criminal organization with roots in a ...
A New Documentary Reveals the Real Eagle Pass - The Texas …
Mar 19, 2024 · Francesca D'Annunzio is a Roy W. Howard investigative reporting fellow at the Texas Observer.D’Annunzio has reported on topics ranging from deportations in the Dominican Republic, Christian ...