Recently added articles from The Texas Observer:
DIALOGUE
Sep 18, 2009; ... SICK OF BEING SICK AND TIRED This is a well-written story about the lack of a health care safety net ("Sick and Tired," Sept.4). Please keep up the good work! The people need to know about these truths. Shame on those who would not agree to be interviewed! Bret ...
Real Women of Texas
Sep 18, 2009; ... Like most folks who weren't born in Texas - and took their time getting here - I've spent more of my life imbibing stereotypes and myths than absorbing actual information about this big, confounding state. Take Texas women. As a lifelong political nerd, my knowledge of approximately one-half of ...
Leaving Emerald City
Sep 18, 2009; ... IS AUSTIN'S NEW ENERGY PLAN VISIONARY OR OLD-SCHOOL? On Highway 71 near La Grange, the Fayette Power Project rises from the blackland prairie like an industrialized Emerald City, its 500-foot stacks casting a long shadow across the landscape. Up close, the 1,600-megawatt, coal-burning ...
If the Revolution is Over, Does That Mean We Won?
Sep 18, 2009; ... taxas women have come a long way, maybe. People of a certain age are always talking, sadly and nostalgically, about the bright, unfulfilled dreams of their youth. I'm of a certain age myself- 59, to be precise. But I usually draw a blank when the stories about lost youth, failed ...
Online Voter Registration
Sep 18, 2009; ... Ah, progress! I'm not exactly a model citizen for the technologically advanced, Internet-connected world we inhabit. For example, I don't have a doorbell at my house. Yet while I'm something of a Luddite, I do have a Web site, and I couldn't do what I do without it: ...