The latest version of the bill includes a previously nixed provision to allow Texans to donate crypto to the fund.

Jesse Rizo, who lost a niece in Texas' deadliest school shooting, turned pain into a run for public office. He thinks his ...

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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 ...

The state created “Texas Partnership” charter schools to turn around struggling public campuses, but an Observer investigation has uncovered numerous academic and financial issues.

Matthew Johnson’s guilt was never in question. On the stand during his 2013 trial, he admitted to the crime that landed him on death row. The attack—an early morning robbery and murder in a ...

A version of this story ran in the May / June 2025 issue. These days, the thrum of traffic and the roar of a bulldozer intrude on conversations at café tables clustered outside the Swedish Hill ...