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Achieving Vision Zero in Houston Isn’t Going To Happen One Intersection at a Time

Eliminating the thousands of injuries and deaths that happen on Houston’s streets will require a reckoning that the car-heavy city does not appear ready to make.

Texas Observer · Oct 19, 2020

The Long Tail of Voter Suppression

As the growing number of Black and Latinx voters threaten the GOP’s stranglehold on power, attempts to limit safe voting options during the pandemic reveal a deeper sickness in Texas politics.

Texas Observer · Oct 16, 2020

Lulu Seikaly Wants to Flip One of Texas’ Most Conservative Suburban Districts

In Collin County, the political newcomer is betting big on Asian American voters—and Republicans who are tired of Trump.

Texas Observer · Oct 15, 2020

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One Texas-Sized Loophole is Letting Lone Star Polluters Off the Hook

Every single day last year, at least one industrial facility in Texas emitted more toxic pollutants than it’s allowed to under state and federal laws.

Texas Observer · Oct 14, 2020

Short Story Finalist: ‘Oblivious’

"The people, though, in the hospitals with ’Rona or in the streets with police officers’ knees on their chests, they couldn’t breathe."

Texas Observer · Oct 14, 2020

Eye on Texas: The Black Yearbook

The Black Yearbook intends to showcase the reality of Black students at the University of Texas at Austin.

Texas Observer · Oct 13, 2020

Announcing the Texas Observer’s Indigenous Affairs Desk

For whatever reason, news organizations in Texas don’t report on Indigenous communities. The Texas Observer intends to be different.

Texas Observer · Oct 12, 2020

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Houston, Let People Walk

Houston infamously doesn’t have zoning, but that attitude disappears when it comes to rules that promote driving ahead of any other form of transportation.

Texas Observer · Oct 12, 2020

Short Story Finalist: ‘Solitary’

“There is no justice in being morally just. Not here.”

Texas Observer · Oct 9, 2020

Claiming Major Superfund ‘Success,’ Trump EPA Focused on Completing Cleanups, Not Climate Planning

Work stalled on hardening Superfund sites against climate-related weather extremes, budget cuts continued and a backlog of sites awaiting cleanup ballooned.

Texas Observer · Oct 8, 2020

Democrats Seek to Undo San Antonio Senate Slip-up

In a presidential election year, most observers in Texas expect high voter turnout and a return to SD-19’s Democratic roots.

Texas Observer · Oct 7, 2020

Trump’s Favorite Texas Sheriff Faces Re-Election Amid a Spike in Deaths at His Jail

Conservative media have turned Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn into a right-wing celebrity despite a long list of scandals on his watch.

Texas Observer · Oct 6, 2020

The Work is All of Us

Undocumented and disabled, the members of the Living Hope Wheelchair Association offer a vision for a more caring future.

Texas Observer · Oct 5, 2020

Loon Star State: Autocratic for the People

Ben Sargent's latest cartoon pokes fun at Trump's newest enemy of the people: the ballot box. To see more cartoons, visit our Loon Star State section.

Texas Observer · Oct 2, 2020

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Texas Observer · Oct 1, 2020

Remembering a Jewish Upbringing in Meyerland, Texas

I love being an expatriate Texan, David Biespiel writes in his new memoir. Texas holds the landscape, if not the mise-en-scène, of my true spirit.

Texas Observer · Sep 30, 2020

Erika Andiola Says Dreamers Know How to Push Biden

“All we can do is pick our opponent,” says Andiola, the chief advocacy officer for the San Antonio-based immigrant rights group RAICES Action.

Texas Observer · Sep 29, 2020

State Officials Tried to Cut Women’s Health Care During a Pandemic. It’s a Clear Reflection of Priorities.

The state health agency continues to propose cutting services for families while leavinga program that funds anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers intact.

Texas Observer · Sep 28, 2020

The Racist History Behind El Paso’s XII Travelers Memorial

Protesters in El Paso have focused on toppling The Equestrian, a monument to a racist colonizer. But the story behind the monument goes deeper.

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Texas Observer · Sep 25, 2020

The Anti-Indigenous Handbook

Across the globe, anti-Indigenous organizations and sympathizers work to undermine the collective rights of Indigenous peoples.

Texas Observer · Sep 24, 2020

The Wasteland Underwater

Lavaca Bay is already poisoned by mercury. Climate change will only make matters worse there—and at 944 other Superfund sites across the country.

Texas Observer · Sep 23, 2020

Researcher Howard Henderson on Reimagining Policing in the U.S.

Researcher Howard Henderson says policing in the U.S. perpetuates systems of inequality that mirror the nation’s history of colonialism.

Texas Observer · Sep 22, 2020

Texas Has the Widest Digital Divide in the Nation. What Does that Mean for the School Year?

Texas has the widest digital divide in the nation. Some 1.8 million public school students in Texas lack necessary broadband access.

Texas Observer · Sep 21, 2020

Austin and America’s Thirty-Year War on the Homeless

Cities have spent three decades criminalizing the homeless. Last year, Austin bucked the trend—and sparked a firestorm that still hasn’t gone out.

Texas Observer · Sep 18, 2020

Loon Star: Trampled Liberty

The latest cartoon from Ben Sargent.

Texas Observer · Sep 17, 2020

5,000 People Contract COVID-19 While In ICE Custody, Including This Father Of 5

ICE officials have released some medically vulnerable detainees, but one woman is struggling to get her sick husband out of ICE detention.

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