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Beathard was put to death in 1999 for murders that his co-defendant claimed to have committed without him. A new ...

Jodey Arrington was the House architect of Trump’s massive tax-and-spend bill that includes steep healthcare cuts.

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I even attended a summer program at the National Water Center in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in 2016 that focused on flood mapping ...

All of the Texas Observer’s articles are available for free syndication for news sources under the following conditions: GOP’s Trumped-up redrawing took a wrecking ball to congressional districts. Now ...

I’m scared of what’s being lost in our classrooms: critical thinking, open dialogue, and the freedom to be ourselves.

The White Shaman mural has been silent for millennia — but thanks to the work of archaeologist Carolyn Boyd, it can begin to speak again.

Michelle Pitcher is a staff writer at the Texas Observer covering criminal justice, housing, and education. She received her master’s in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley ...