The Texas Observer: Investigating Texas Since 1954
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Chasing the Chupacabra, a Lone Star State Legend - The Texas …
Oct 27, 2016 · I n the summer of 1995, a wave of livestock killings rocked the towns of rural Puerto Rico. The victims were found with wounds at their throats, seemingly empty of blood. Without a culprit, dark ...
‘Tech Doesn't Just Stay at the Border’: Petra Molnar on …
Jul 11, 2024 · by Francesca D’Annunzio. July 11, 2024, 8:00 AM, CDT. Petra Molnar is an anthropologist and attorney focused on human rights and migration. Molnar, who is based in Toronto, serves as the ...
Breaking the Brazos: An Iconic Texas Waterway Under Threat
Feb 8, 2023 · After heavy rains, tons of dirt and clay surged down the river, threatening fish and wildlife habitats. The once free-flowing Brazos turned shallow and brown, and sediment formed islands of silt ...
Journalist Priscilla 'La Gordiloca' Villarreal Loses at Fifth Circuit
Jan 24, 2024 · In a blow to First Amendment advocates, a majority of the judges on the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decided Tuesday not just to throw out a lawsuit by the Laredo citizen journalist and ...
Why Don't Texans Vote? - The Texas Observer
October 7, 2010, 3:51 PM, CDT. By now it’s a familiar, even worn-out, storyline: In 2008, a surge of new and newly-energized voters helped propel Barack Obama into the White House. Voter turnout ...
When Will Texas Workers Finally Get Protections from Heat …
September 5, 2024, 8:30 AM, CDT. For more than a decade, Democratic U.S. Representative Greg Casar, an ex-Austin City Council member now representing a House district that stretches down to San ...
A Decade of Texas Health Care By The Numbers
Dec 26, 2019 · Statewide, the shortage of primary care physicians is expected to grow from about 2,000 to nearly 3,400 in the next 10 years. Number of abortion clinics. Guttmacher Institute. About half of Texas ...
Loon Star State: 'When You Assume...'
Sep 19, 2024 · Ben Sargent is the Texas Observer 's longtime cartoonist. He launched his career drawing editorial cartoons for the Austin American-Statesman in 1974. He was born in Amarillo into a newspaper ...
Border and Immigration - The Texas Observer
Aug 23, 2024 · A Rancher Who Leads a Paramilitary-Style Group Sues Biden over Border Policies. The rancher is joined by a rural Texas sheriff, who has collaborated with vigilantes, in the legal challenge to ...