A Looming Execution Raises Questions of Race, Responsibility, and Rap
Curtis Riser had some concerns about the problem of wrongful convictions. He wasn’t the only potenti ...View More
When the AI Cloud Comes for Texas Water
“What’s in the water?” state Representative Erin Zwiener asked when talking to the developers of a p ...View More
Making Coffee with a Candle—and Other Notes from a Cuba Gone Dark
My grandmother sent me a photo last week. In it, a white candle burns inside a metal bucket. Bal ...View More
As Contract Negotiations Drag On, Texas Starbucks Workers Have Learned the Power of Organizing
Victoria Hernandez, 23, was brought into work at the Blanco Road San Antonio Starbucks location in A ...View More
Off the Charts
All of the Texas Observer’s articles are available for free syndication for news sources under the f ...View More
‘La Gordiloca’ Lost at the Supreme Court but Won in Laredo
It’s the day after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to revive her lawsuit against the local officials ...View More
Mike Miles Cancels Moonlighting Contract with His Former Charter School Network
Houston ISD pays its state-appointed superintendent, Mike Miles, a base salary of $462,000, and the ...View More
Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport
Last month, Meenu Batra, 53, who has lived in the South Texas border colonia of Laguna Heights since ...View More
Denton Promised Net Zero. Then It Kept Building Roads.
If you have driven anywhere in the city of Denton over the past few years, you have noticed it. Oran ...View More
How Trump’s ‘God Squad’ Could Devastate Endangered Species Along Texas’ Gulf Coast
Nestled about a foot deep in a makeshift well of sand on the no-man’s-land of shoreline between dune ...View More
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