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Local activists warn that while residents must ration, unimpeded industrial expansion is imperiling the region’s future.

Due process hasn’t been protected. The process that is set in place in this country that is the basis and foundation of our ...

Stephen Harrigan explores his own Catholic boyhood in Texas—and the prophecy left behind by a Portuguese prophet girl—in a ...

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

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At an April 2017 committee hearing in a meeting room tucked away in the Capitol’s underground extension, state Senator Paul Bettencourt, a bespectacled Houston Republican, touted a proposal of ...

A version of this story ran in the May / June 2025 issue. It’s the sort of day where you can tell that the state Capitol is bustling with civic activity well before you pass through the security ...