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Bike Pathology

Dallas, with its knot of highways, sprawling suburbs, and fast urban streets, is not an easy place to bicycle. In 2008, Bicycling magazine declared it the worst city for cyclists in the country....

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Crimes In the Sand

Most of the 300 or so clustered gravesites in the Terlingua Ghost Town cemetery are mounds of white rock rising from auburn dirt. Crosses nailed together from withered wooden boards stand askew,...

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Whose Water Is It, Anyway?

Before the summer of 2009, Bob Wynne could stand on his expansive deck high above Lake Travis and look out over flat, shimmering water. It was the perfect surface for the thin, 68-year-old dentist to...

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The Creature from Choke Canyon

Wrap-up – The Brand New Texas Observer Rabble Rouser!   The 10th annual Rabble Rouser Round-Up and Fat Cat Schmoozefest shook the halls of the Emma Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center on...

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Postcards: Hook, Line and Sinker

Before the sun has risen on the morning of March 25, 12 men who catch and release fish for a living stand aboard their boats at the Zapata County boat ramp on Falcon Lake. They fuss in the darkness...

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If They Build It…

With a kick from the muddy bank, our canoe slides into the Trinity River, a narrow strip of murky water canopied by looming black willows. We’ve put in at the Sylvan Avenue boat launch just north of...

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Food Bank CEO Responds to a Fox News Attack on Food Stamps

Given the Republican rumblings in Congress, Celia Cole, the CEO of the Texas Food Bank Network, figured it was only a matter of time before Fox News launched an attack on SNAP, the Supplemental...

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Postcards: Hook, Line and Sinker

Officers from the Zapata County Sheriff’s Department, Border Patrol and Texas Parks & Wildlife told anglers, “We can’t help you once you cross into Mexico.”The post Postcards: Hook, Line and Sinker...

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Imagine There’s No Concrete: Building a Papercrete Revolution in Mason

  Kent Rabon, stocky and square jawed, pushed open the heavy wooden doors and stepped out of the tiny white chapel into the West Texas sun. He shielded his eyes and looked out across the vast...

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Back in the Saddle

How about you, riding a bike, in Houston? You came to Houston to listen and learn about promise, or so you’d hoped. On a cool but clammy Sunday morning, you arrive at downtown’s Market Square Park with...

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If They Build It…

With a kick from the muddy bank, our canoe slides into the Trinity River, a narrow strip of murky water canopied by looming black willows. We’ve put in at the Sylvan Avenue boat launch just north of...

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Bike Pathology

Dallas, with its knot of highways, sprawling suburbs, and fast urban streets, is not an easy place to bicycle. In 2008, Bicycling magazine declared it the worst city for cyclists in the country....

View Article

Crimes In the Sand

Most of the 300 or so clustered gravesites in the Terlingua Ghost Town cemetery are mounds of white rock rising from auburn dirt. Crosses nailed together from withered wooden boards stand askew,...

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Whose Water Is It, Anyway?

Before the summer of 2009, Bob Wynne could stand on his expansive deck high above Lake Travis and look out over flat, shimmering water. It was the perfect surface for the thin, 68-year-old dentist to...

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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The Creature from Choke Canyon

Wrap-up – The Brand New Texas Observer Rabble Rouser!   The 10th annual Rabble Rouser Round-Up and Fat Cat Schmoozefest shook the halls of the Emma Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center on...

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Food Bank CEO Responds to a Fox News Attack on Food Stamps

Given the Republican rumblings in Congress, Celia Cole, the CEO of the Texas Food Bank Network, figured it was only a matter of time before Fox News launched an attack on SNAP, the Supplemental...

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Postcards: Hook, Line and Sinker

Officers from the Zapata County Sheriff’s Department, Border Patrol and Texas Parks & Wildlife told anglers, “We can’t help you once you cross into Mexico.” The post Postcards: Hook, Line and...

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Imagine There’s No Concrete: Building a Papercrete Revolution in Mason

Kent Rabon, stocky and square jawed, pushed open the heavy wooden doors and stepped out of the tiny white chapel into the West Texas sun. He shielded his eyes and looked out across the vast Chihuahuan...

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Back in the Saddle

How about you, riding a bike, in Houston? You came to Houston to listen and learn about promise, or so you’d hoped. On a cool but clammy Sunday morning, you arrive at downtown’s Market Square Park with...

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