Texas Observer readers,
Last month, we at the Observer officially celebrated our 70th year of continuous publication. Some 200 supporters gathered at Scholz Garten, the historic downtown Austin watering hole that nurtured the liberal social scene around the Observer for decades. In a bleak time for Texas and the country, I know that I felt heartened.
As an ominous presidential inauguration nears—and as you open this new issue into which we’ve once again poured our journalistic labors—here’s a bit of what I said to the Observer community that night:
