Meet the DJ and journalist behind Houston’s Ice House Radio, who has mingled with jazz legends and reported abroad—and for ...

Records reveal additional costs of the controversial Rio Grande barrier that the governor describes as “low-cost.” ...

Imposing permanent punishments for old mistakes backfires by reducing the talent pool to address Texas’ social worker ...

Last month, we at the Observer officially celebrated our 70 th year of continuous publication. Some 200 supporters gathered ...

Trans people are a gift to the world. They show us how creative God can be, and they are the embodiment of a fundamental ...

New Testaments by Dagoberto Gilb (City Lights Books). A longtime chronicler of the working-class Southwest, Gilb had two ...

Local elected officials in the border city of Brownsville are receiving talking points and media strategy from the company developing Rio Grande LNG—the Central Park-sized liquefied natural gas ...

A version of this story ran in the November / December 2024 issue. One night last summer, I went out with my wife. Through the restaurant windows, we could see the Uvalde town square: the ...

Craig Garnett has owned the Uvalde Leader-News, the local newspaper, since 1989. He moved to Uvalde in 1982 to begin work with the Leader-News, where his weekly editorials and columns have won ...