The state created “Texas Partnership” charter schools to turn around struggling public campuses, but an Observer ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

We still have one, after all, so may as well act like it.

It’s the sort of day where you can tell that the state Capitol is bustling with civic activity well before you pass through ...

Orlando J. Pérez, Ph.D., is a professor of political science at the University of North Texas at Dallas, specializing in U.S.

Val Verde County’s Conservative Democratic Sheriff on Misinformation, Immigration "Before people start commenting on the border, come visit the bord ...

Legislation to allow some forms of drug checking has reached the same Senate committee where a similar bill died last session ...