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Ronnie Dugger, founding editor and longtime publisher of the Texas Observer and for many years the crusading conscience of the progressive movement in Texas and beyond, died of complications of dementia at a hospice center in Austin on May 27. He was 95. https://www. texasobserver.org/ronnie-dugge r-1930-2025/

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Ronnie Dugger, founding editor and longtime publisher of the Texas Observer and for many years the crusading conscience of the progressive movement in Texas and beyond, died of complications of dementia at a hospice center in Austin on May 27. He was 95. https://www. texasobserver.org/ronnie-dugge r-1930-2025/

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The latest from cartoonist Ben Sargent, in our magazine.

Read more from the May / June 2025 issue: https://www. texasobserver.org/issues/may-j une-2025/

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The latest from cartoonist Ben Sargent, in our magazine.

Read more from the May / June 2025 issue: https://www. texasobserver.org/issues/may-j une-2025/

#education #religion #schools #politics #USpol #Texas #TXlege #comics

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A man and woman walk through a elementary school hallway. The man is reading a newspaper and says "I just worry about the separation of church and state being subtly eroded in the public schools." As he speaks, the woman looks over in shock as a Godlike figure in a white robe with a flowing white beard bursts out of a classroom in a cloud of smoke, holding the 10 commandments. "Subtly?" she asks in shock.

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The May/June 2025 issue of Texas Observer magazine will be out starting May 1, featuring stories from Candice Bernd, Michelle Pitcher, Brant Deboer and more.

Become a member to support our work, and get the best of our reporting in our magazine.

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The May/June 2025 issue of Texas Observer magazine will be out starting May 1, featuring stories from Candice Bernd, Michelle Pitcher, Brant Deboer and more.

Become a member to support our work, and get the best of our reporting in our magazine.

#journalism #nonprofit #media #Texas #politics #USpol #news #bitcoin #crypto #pollution #refugees #CriminalJustice #DeathPenalty

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The May/June 2025 cover of Texas Observer magazine depicts a grayscale oil derrick, exploding into the air with golden, pixelated video game-style coins. Headline: The Texas Bitcoin Boom. Cryptomining afflicts locals with noise pollution, threatens water supplies and receives generous public backing. by Candice Bernd. Other headlines: Clinton Young’s Life After Death Row. The Refugee Wrestlers of the West Side by Brant Deboer. 

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We've been publishing stories all year related to our 70th anniversary, but today marks the actual date that the Texas Observer published its first issue in 1954, with the top story dedicated to a retail workers' #strike in Port Arthur: https://archives.texasobserver.org/iss ue/1954/12/13#page=1

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We've been publishing stories all year related to our 70th anniversary, but today marks the actual date that the Texas Observer published its first issue in 1954, with the top story dedicated to a retail workers' #strike in Port Arthur: https://archives.texasobserver.org/iss ue/1954/12/13#page=1

#journalism #history #media #nonprofit #news #Texas #politics #USpol

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Old Texas Observer front page with the headline Shepperd Urges Port Arthur Truce with an accompanying black and white photo showing a smiling woman with sign that says "Employees on strike CIO 1814". Another major headline says Webb County Split By One-Party Rule. 