The Legislature’s current proposals put a handful of private contractors in the driver’s seat. Other states have already seen problems.

The Legislature’s current proposals put a handful of private contractors in the driver’s seat. Other states have already seen ...

The House speaker battle wasn’t really about cleaning house.

The House speaker battle wasn’t really about cleaning house.

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All of the Texas Observer’s articles are available for free syndication for news sources under the following conditions: ...

A version of this story ran in the March / April 2025 issue.

The Fort Worth state rep spends another session waging a “spiritual battle” in the Texas House, with bad bills and incessant ...

In recent years, Los Fresnos has changed, much like the rest of the Rio Grande Valley. More retail chains are coming to the town of around 8,400, mostly along Highway 100—called Ocean Boulevard ...

Wood’s attorneys have requested that more than 100 additional pieces of evidence be tested for DNA, but the state has opposed the request for over a decade.

Young women had been disappearing from the streets of El Paso for months before the first bodies were discovered in the desert northeast of the city. On September 4, 1987, police found the remains ...