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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 ...
The Questions the Death Penalty Cannot Answer
Dec 10, 2024 · Texas has the largest death penalty machine in the United States, executing 591 people since 1982. With each scheduled execution, decisionmakers—which include the Court of Criminal Appeals, the ...
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Dec 26, 2024 · 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 ...
Texas Will Be on the ‘Front Lines’ of Mass Deportation
Nov 7, 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 ...
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 ...
The Vet, the Cattle Prod, and the ‘Guttural Wail’
Nov 18, 2024 · An equine surgeon and Texas A&M professor has been convicted of animal cruelty after repeatedly shocking a horse in front of students, among other misdeeds, exposing the shaky ethics training of ...
September/October 2024 - The Texas Observer
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Dow's River: Who Reigns on the Brazos? - The Texas Observer
Jun 12, 2023 · Dow chemical company holds all the cards on the Brazos River. Part of the Observer's "Drifting Toward Disaster" series on Texas waterways.