Highways and Hunting, Parasites and Panopticons
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Despite Surge in Prison Overdoses, State Agency Requests No New Treatment Funding
From 2020 to 2025, the number of confirmed overdose deaths in Texas prisons rose from just four to at least 131. Despite this surge in fatalities, however, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) did not request any additional funding … Continued
School Vouchers Take Center Stage in Texas’ Most Flippable State House District
On the last Sunday of September, a dozen volunteers gathered on the South Side of San Antonio alongside Republican candidates Jorge Borrego and Carlos De La Cruz. “This is where our efforts matter the most,” said Borrego, who is running … Continued
Jim Hightower’s Revenge? A Long-Shot Bid Could Restore Left Populism to the Agriculture Commissioner’s Office.
There used to be a sense among Republicans that they needed to keep up some semblance of looking out for the public interest. That’s all fallen by the wayside with our “weaving” president, who recently had a message for the … Continued
‘Earth Has No Sorrow’: Visions of a Caldwell County Long Gone
Introduction by Ivan Flores and Gus Bova: Half a century ago, as part of an oral history project, fine arts photographer Dee Azadian and hundreds of volunteer field researchers spent months interviewing and recording the senior residents of Caldwell County, … Continued
Matters of Religion
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