January/February 2025 - The Texas Observer
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The Texas Observer: Investigating Texas Since 1954
Dec 20, 2024 · The Texas Observer is a nonprofit news organization known for its independent, investigative reporting, narrative storytelling, and cultural criticism.
Texas Is Taking Back the State Highway 288 Tollway—at a Steep …
Oct 9, 2024 · News. Texas Is Taking Back the State Highway 288 Tollway—at a Steep Price. The private firms who have operated the tollway will be paid $1.7 billion by TxDOT, adding to the profit they’ve ...
'There Have to Be Limits': Lawsuit Urges Scorching Prisons to Cool …
Apr 22, 2024 · Last June, Bernhardt Tiede suffered a likely stroke while living in a prison cell that regularly got up to around 110 degrees Fahrenheit. The 65-year-old—whose story inspired the 2011 Richard ...
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Dec 18, 2024 · TEA Exoneration of Mike Miles’ Charter Schools Leaves Questions Unanswered, Raises New Ones . An agency report challenging media stories overlooks the charter schools’ compliance with federal ...
Freeport LNG Export Terminal Reopens After Massive Explosion
Feb 23, 2023 · Environment. Natural Gas Terminal Reopens After Massive Explosion. Regulators say the company fixed flaws at Freeport LNG which led compressed methane to burst from a pipe and catch fire.
September/October 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 ...
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 ...
How Mass Deportations Would ‘Devastate’ Texas
Oct 21, 2024 · Francesca D'Annunzio is a Roy W. Howard investigative reporting fellow at the Texas Observer.D’Annunzio has reported on topics ranging from deportations in the Dominican Republic, Christian ...
La Gordiloca Goes to Court - The Texas Observer
Jan 10, 2024 · Editor’s Note: On January 23, 2024, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Priscilla Villarreal. “Any law enforcement agency basically has a green light right now to go out and ...