The Texas Observer: Investigating Texas Since 1954
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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 ...
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 ...
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Jan 14, 2025 · 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 ...
How Texas Jails Built Migrant Incarceration
Nov 19, 2024 · Border and Immigration. How Texas Jails Built Migrant Incarceration. Following a 1925 investigation, immigrant detention in the Galveston County Jail was declared “a crime against humanity.”
'They Bought a Legislature': What the GOP's Gains Mean for …
Nov 7, 2024 · Education ‘They Bought a Legislature’: What the GOP’s Gains Mean for Vouchers in Texas. Republicans nearly ran the table in state House races, shoring up Governor Abbott’s school voucher ...
November/December 2024 - The Texas Observer
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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 ...
A Rancher Who Leads a Paramilitary-Style Group Sues Biden over …
Aug 6, 2024 · Rancher Michael Vickers, Kinney County Sheriff Brad Coe, and the governments of Kinney and Atascosa counties filed a lawsuit in federal court on July 31 claiming that the Biden administration’s ...
DPS Dodges Transparency in Uvalde—Again - The Texas Observer
Aug 15, 2024 · By reinstating Texas Ranger Christopher Ryan Kindell in early August, Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Director Steve McCraw seems to have once and for all sidestepped a public reckoning ...