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School Shooting · AustinTo submit a poem, please send an email, with the poem as an attachment, to poetry@texasobserver.org. We are looking for previously unpublished works of no more than 30 lines, by Texas poets who have not been published by the Observer in the last two years. Pay is $100 on publication. The post Poem: elegy for the [insert school shooting] children’s f— appeared first on The Texas Observer.See the Story
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3M · AustinEditor’s Note: This excerpt is adapted from Loose of Earth: A Memoir (April 2024) with permission from University of Texas Press. The Environmental Protection Agency announced limits on PFAS in drinking water earlier this month. A blade of light glances off my grandparents’ white Lincoln. They park at the curb. A torque of despair turns in my stomach at the way Dad draws his mother into his arms. There’s a tumor in Dad’s colon. That’s all anyone…See the Story
New Memoir: 'Forever Chemicals,' Religion, and Family Tragedy in Texas
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Austin, Texas · AustinEditor’s Note: This article is reprinted with permission from the Sierra Club magazine. On February 26, a tiny flame sparked a mile north of the ranching community of Stinnett, Texas. This part of the Texas Panhandle is sparsely populated—Hutchinson County has 20,000 people and roughly the same number of cows—so no one saw the smoldering patch of tall, dry grass where two county roads intersect. By the time area residents took notice of the smok…See the Story
The Epic Texas Panhandle Fire Is Just a Preview
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Austin, Texas · AustinIn Travis County, the magistration process—the initial bail hearing after someone is arrested—isn’t cinematic. Arrestees are either led to a small room within the jail’s central booking area, or a Travis County Sheriff’s Office (TCSO) employee might bring a computer to their holding cell. At the end of a short conversation, during which the arrestee can either remain silent or try to plead their case to get released on a personal bond instead of…See the Story
In Travis County, a Fight over Bail Hearings Has Big Stakes for Criminal Defendants
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Austin, Texas · AustinOut in West Texas, a pair of aspiring novelists and enterprising small-town newspaper owners, Barbara Brannon and Kay Ellington, were dismayed by the number of publications that were dropping book sections, cutting critics, and otherwise decimating literary coverage, especially in the Lone Star State. By the 2010s, “93 percent of the state’s newspapers offer no regular books coverage of any kind,” they told the Writers’ League of Texas. Both new…See the Story
Saving Lone Star Literary Life
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Strangest State: Airplane Etiquette, Australian Octopi, and an Itinerant Police Chief
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Ted Cruz · AustinU.S. Senator Ted Cruz is facing yet another complaint to the Federal Elections Commission that claims he has “brazenly” violated federal campaign finance laws through his podcast deal with one of the nation’s largest media conglomerates. Cruz struck a deal in 2022 with San Antonio-based radio giant iHeartMedia to pay for the production, marketing, and distribution of his “Verdict” podcast, where he pontificates about various right-wing grievanc…See the Story
Is Ted Cruz’s Podcast PAC Payoff Scheme Illegal?
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Drought · TexasA high-tech chemical company has purchased the last available water in the Nueces River to make hydrogen and ammonia for export.By Dylan BaddourAn Indian chemical company, Avina Clean Hydrogen Inc., has purchased the last available water supply from the Nueces River of South Texas, raising concerns of regional scarcity as reservoirs dwindle and drought persists.See the Story
Water Scarcity and Clean Energy Collide in South Texas - Inside Climate News
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