The Texas Observer: Investigating Texas Since 1954
Feb 6, 2010 · The Texas Observer is a nonprofit news organization known for its independent, investigative reporting, narrative storytelling, and cultural criticism.
Booked Up in 2024: What to Read from a Strong Year in Texas …
Dec 30, 2024 · FICTION . The Young of Other Animals by Chris Cander (Amazon).This gifted Houston novelist’s fictionalized account of a violent attack that shaped her own life is a compelling must-read.; After ...
January/February 2025 - The Texas Observer
Subscribers to the bi-monthly print and digital editions of the Texas Observer get the first look at our in-depth, investigative reporting before it’s published online.Subscribe today so you don ...
Abbott's Voucher Fight Isn't About Kids. It's About Money, Politics ...
Oct 13, 2023 · As the Senate passed its voucher bill, Senate Bill 1, by a vote of 18-13 last night, Governor Greg Abbott gave a progress report on work with state House members to the Texas Public Policy ...
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 ...
Brownsville Elected Officials Are Doing PR for Embattled LNG …
Dec 19, 2024 · Local elected officials in the border city of Brownsville are receiving talking points and media strategy from the company developing Rio Grande LNG—the Central Park-sized liquefied natural gas ...
Texas Gave $1 Million in Expert Contracts to Defend Border Buoys …
Jan 9, 2025 · The full cost of Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s floating buoy barrier in the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass is greater than previously revealed. Between February and August of last year, the state ...
Steven Monacelli - The Texas Observer
Dec 4, 2024 · 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 ...
How Texas’ War on Drug Users Fueled an Austin Overdose Disaster
Jan 7, 2025 · A tall, thin Houston native with a quick sense of humor, Benjamin Arzo Gordon had been living on the streets of Austin for years. A January 2024 photo in the Austin American-Statesman shows him ...
July/August 2024 - The Texas Observer
Subscribers to the bi-monthly print and digital editions of the Texas Observer get the first look at our in-depth, investigative reporting before it’s published online.Subscribe today so you don ...