Texas A&M has agreed to pay Dr. Kathleen McElroy $1 million after her recruitment process broke down over "DEI hysteria." Dr. McElroy will remain a tenured professor at UT Austin.
The July 3 account, reviewed by Hearst Newspapers, discloses several previously unreported incidents the trooper witnessed in Eagle Pass, where the state of Texas has strung miles of razor wire and deployed a wall of buoys in the Rio Grande....
A Texas middle school teacher has been fired from a Beaumont-area school district after assigning an illustrated version of "The Diary of Anne Frank" to her eighth grade reading class.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, signed a bill into law in June that prohibited cities from passing certain local ordinances. It was widely seen as an effort to curb the power of Democrat-led cities....
#Texas Appeals Court Throws Out Defamation Lawsuit Against ProPublica, Houston Chronicle
The news outlets’ 2018 investigation into famed #Houston heart surgeon Bud Frazier provided a “fair, true, and impartial account,” the court said in its ruling, potentially bringing a close to the nearly six-year legal battle.
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"A Texas woman is accusing her sons’ school district of failing to condemn racism after she says they were subjected to anti-Asian American taunts on the bus, and her older boy had a swastika drawn on his shirt last year.
Hai Au Huynh, 45, told NBC News that she feels she has no choice but to speak out publicly after the incidents at Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District, just outside Houston."
A prison guard said she was forced to work while she experienced labor pains. Now, Texas is fighting her lawsuit by saying her fetus didn't have the "right to life." | Via The Texas Tribune
Texas pitched itself to tech companies and their workers as a low-tax, low-regulation state. But for low and middle income earners, the picture isn't as rosy.
A new exhibit at the Houston Holocaust Museum is taking a look at the travel guides that Black road-trippers used to help them navigate safe spaces in the Jim Crow South.
Growing up, someone was always telling her that she wouldn’t be able to make a living by #writing, regardless of which kind of writing she did. “I said, ‘OK, but what if I do them all?’”
An 82-year-old Houston man reportedly received a call that he believed was from his son-in-law. The caller convinced him to send him thousands of dollars. The voice turned out to be AI-generated.
While ERCOT begged Texans to conserve power, the state paid $31 million to Riot, a bitcoin miner, to cut its energy use, leading to record profits for the company.
On Wednesday, repression against #FoodNotBombs in #Houston escalated, after police arrested two people, brutalizing and tasing an African-American volunteer during a Food Not Bombs meal sharing.
Houston FNB has received over 80 tickets - yet still continues to feed the community. This repression has resulted in numerous arrests and thousands in fines.
The arrests stem from a 2012 "city ordinance [which] prohibits people from feeding more than five people on public or private property unless permission is given by property owners." Apparently we need permission from the rich to share food outside without spending money now.
Please support them and other autonomous mutual aid programs. Cities across the US are trying to sweep away the poor from major cities as rising rents and gentrification push out workers. Capitalist media then blames shuttering businesses on houseless encampments and "retail crime," as conditions get worse.
Mutual aid offers a lifeline to folks but also a forum to gather and discuss pushing back.
“We are up against a bunch of rich people who don’t want to see #homeless people anywhere near their stuff.”
Volunteers with #Houston Food Not Bombs are going to court to fight an anti-food sharing ordinance which they say violates their First Amendment rights, reports Staff Writer Michelle Pitcher in our latest article: https://www.texasobserver.org/houston-food-not-bombs-trial/
Texas places traps of razorwire barrels to stop migrants from crossing the Rio Grande (www.houstonchronicle.com)
The July 3 account, reviewed by Hearst Newspapers, discloses several previously unreported incidents the trooper witnessed in Eagle Pass, where the state of Texas has strung miles of razor wire and deployed a wall of buoys in the Rio Grande....
[News] A Texas judge has declared unconstitutional a law championed by Gov. Greg Abbott that limits the power of Democrat-led cities (www.businessinsider.com)
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, signed a bill into law in June that prohibited cities from passing certain local ordinances. It was widely seen as an effort to curb the power of Democrat-led cities....