Former employees say the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality weakened the unit in the years following the onset of the ...

Mexico treaties, I trip over the word “friendship.” Ostensibly, it's like saying, “We are friends, so I’m taking your land.” ...

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While barred from most government healthcare programs, undocumented residents pay more in healthcare taxes than the entire ...

Four years after a failed attempt to flip the lower chamber, the minority party has set its sights on a more modest objective ...

Energy Transfer owns the pipeline that caught fire recently near Houston, and it’s setting another fire at the National Labor ...

Bayou City comic Ali Siddiq turns street life and incarceration into laughs, while challenging stereotypes and provoking the ...

Abby Rapoport continued a family tradition of making the Texas Observer possible—by filling just about every role the ...

The only justification for animal suffering is that it is necessary or doesn’t matter. I have concluded it is not necessary ...

The closest I ever got to meeting a real-life fairy was Gene Elder, who wrote and starred in "Fairies Fiasco." A version of ...