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Former Star-Telegram Conservative Columnist Spews Hate in Student Chatroom

Why was Carlos Turcios, an intolerant activist allowed to double-time as a columnist for a major Texas newspaper?

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Destiny Returns to Wolfforth

Destiny Adams left her conservative community to make a difference, only to find she could make the biggest impact at home.

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Strangest State: Petty Drama, Electric Trucks and Hungry Bears

Fighting with your ex- in city council chambers? Ursine invaders with a taste for tacos? Just another day in far-flung Texas.

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Meet the Latest Wingnuts to Join the State Board of Ed

Highlights of the new Texas State Board of Education include: Seditious Texiters. Conspiracy theorists. And a January 6 insurrectionist.

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Conspiracy-Peddling Mayor Who Fondled Drunk Stepsister Loses Defamation Lawsuit

Colleyville’s Bobby Lindamood has been ordered to pay nearly $200k after losing a years-long, politically-charged case.

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Meditations on Life and Death at Houston’s Rothko Chapel

Although the abstract painter didn't survive to see it completed, the 1971 temple to art and contemplation is still revealing its magic.

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Catastrophe #88: The Texas Legislature Returns for a Brutal Year

Lege preview: What lawmakers should do to mitigate the state's cascading crises, and what they are liable to do instead.

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2022 Must-Reads From TXO

The Texas Observer's editor-in-chief on their favorite stories last year

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Last Dance with Ann Richards: Best Texas Books of 2022

How Galvestonians used to dance until they dropped (for fun), a former figure skater turned journalist, and other Lone Star State stories.

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The War on Christmas Drag Shows

GOP endorsed anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric inspired armed fascist groups to harass queer events, spurring a diverse, celebratory community response.

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How To Prevent the Next Water Crisis

Amid droughts, climate change and development, Todd Votteler has ideas for how Texas can prevent future conflict over resources.

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A Subdivision for Stargazers: Limpia Crossing Residents Look Aloft

In this tiny subdivision in the Davis Mountains near McDonald Observatory, dark skies are a precious resource.

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‘Underground Railroad’ Quilt Weaves Black Liberation History

African American fiber artists in San Antonio are challenging revisionist histories through artful storytelling.

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Far-Right Lawyer Drops Neo-Nazi Lawsuit, Celebrates Fascist Thanksgiving

Despite denying involvement in the Aryan Freedom Network and Patriot Front, lawyer Jason Lee Van Dyke has gathered with both groups

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Texas Bookstores Are Writing Their Own Stories

Indie bookshops across the state are embracing change, to thrive and stay alive. But a lot depends on the upcoming holiday season.

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At Casa Juan Diego, Refugees Find An Outpost of Compassion

Since 1980, migrants fleeing poverty, violence, and natural disaster have come here for refuge from an intolerant world.

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Biden Is Still Separating Immigrant Kids From Their Families

Children and their guardians are still being cleaved apart in Texas—and elsewhere—under the new administration.

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Course Corrections: The Return of Prison Education

Federal grants are rebooting higher education behind bars, but the benefits aren't evenly distributed to all of the incarcerated.

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The Flowers of Campo Santo

In West Dallas, a volunteer group is creating a haven for monarch butterflies inside a historic immigrant cemetery.

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Time Traveling in a Glass-Bottomed Boat

In Edwards Aquifer country, as goes the blind salamander, so go we all.

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Texas’ Summer from Hell

Amid record temperatures, state residents struggle to keep cool.

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Drifting Toward Disaster: the (Second) Rio Grande

With the river on the brink, authorities are “praying for a hurricane” as reservoirs dwindle and populations boom.

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‘We Win in 2022 and the World Changes’

Beto's bid to deny Greg Abbott a third term as governor is a steep one, but he can still muster some magic on the campaign trail.

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Uvalde Vive

The typically quiet town of 15,000 knew another uprising a half-century ago.

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Mexican Drought Spurs a South Texas Water Crisis

Reservoirs in the Rio Grande Valley are running dry—sparking emergency water conservation measures in both the U.S. and Mexico.

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