Texas Is Allowing Restaurants To Reopen Starting Today. Many Restaurant Owners Fear It Won't Go Well.
"You can't exactly eat with a mask on, and I have a small space where people would be in close proximity to each other."
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Undercover Cops Arrest 2 Women for Operating Home Beauty Businesses In Violation of Coronavirus Lockdown Order
Lockdown enforcement is becoming more authoritarian.
Abortion Providers Plead With Supreme Court To Allow Abortion Pills in Texas
"Delaying abortions by weeks does nothing to further the State's interest in combatting COVID-19," they say.
Texas Teen Booked on Terror Charge for COVID-19 Snapchat Video
She posted on social media about deliberately spreading the disease, but she's not actually sick.
Texas Inmates Sue for Access to Hand Sanitizer as Coronavirus Threatens Prisons
The ACLU is also suing Washington, D.C. jails.
Texas, Ohio Officials Use COVID-19 as an Excuse To Restrict Abortion
Plus: the pandemic in prisons, pushback on Trump's prescription for economic rebound, and more...
Fault Lines
The relics of terrible segregationist government policies are still felt in East Austin, an area that's quickly gentrifying
Judge Finds That the Houston Narcotics Officer Whose Lies Killed a Couple in 2019 Framed Another Suspect in 2008
Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg says it's reasonable to presume that Gerald Goines also lied in other drug cases.
The Austin City Council Voted for Marijuana Reform. Austin's Police Chief Says He'll Keep Arresting People.
Council member Gregorio Casar: "I think the state of Texas should come out of the Stone Ages and not only decriminalize but legalize marijuana in the state."
Musician Sues Houston For His Right To Play His Accordion In Public
The city limits busking to its tiny Theater District, and it makes you jump through hoops even to play there.
Public Education as Public Indoctrination
A New York Times study describes how both red and blue states use public education to indoctrinate students in their preferred ideologies. This dynamic should dampen hopes that public education can fix the problem of widespread political ignorance.
How San Antonio's Worst Cops Get Their Jobs Back
Thanks to the police union, bad officers don't stay fired for long.
Nonprofit Sues Overzealous Texas Regulators To Protect Small Farmers
Texas is ignoring federal law to harass small farms.
A 'Good Guy With a Gun' Prevented a Texas Church Shooting From Becoming a Massacre
Two victims were killed at a church shooting in White Settlement, Texas. It would have been much worse had some parishioners not been armed.
The Police Officer Who Killed Atatiana Jefferson in Her Own Home Is Indicted for Murder
Body camera footage captured Aaron Dean fatally shooting Atatiana Jefferson without announcing that he was a police officer.
A Texas Deputy Is in Jail for Conducting Unlawful Strip Searches on Women
One woman alleged that Floyd Berry became aroused during an unlawful search.
New DNA Evidence Likely Exonerates a Texas Death Row Inmate. The Government Won't Test It.
Rodney Reed is set to die by lethal injection in less than two weeks.
Texas Voters Ban State Income Taxes. Again.
Some 76 percent of Texas voters approved a constitutional amendment that prohibits the state from imposing any income tax.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Spreads Fake News About Austin Homelessness
The video Abbott shared was not of a homeless person—it was a mentally ill person having a serious episode. Whoops.
Fort Worth Police Chief Explains Why Atatiana Jefferson's Welfare Check Turned Deadly
"There is absolutely no excuse for this incident," said Police Chief Edwin Kraus.
The Officer Who Shot Atatiana Jefferson in Her Own Home Has Resigned
Mayor Betsy Price: "The gun is irrelevant. She was in her own home caring for an 8-year-old nephew. [Jefferson] was a victim."
Texas Police Fatally Shot a Woman in Her Own Home After a Neighbor Asked for a Welfare Check
The neighbor later said, "If I had never dialed the police department, she'd still be alive."
Ex-Cop, Who Killed Her Neighbor After Accidentally Entering His Apartment, Convicted of Murder
Jury rejects attempt to claim she feared for her life and acted in self-defense.
Remember That Cop Who Thought She Was Entering Her Own Apartment and Shot the Guy Who Really Lived There?
Now she's on trial for murder, and she's claiming self-defense.
A Texas Educational Aide Posted About CBD on Facebook. Someone Complained. Then the School District Fired Her.
Kerri Owens' firing from her job at Allen High School may well be a First Amendment violation.
'I Still Think They're Heroes,' Houston's Police Chief Says of the Cops Who Killed a Couple During a Fraudulent Drug Raid
While the narcotics officers charged with murder and evidence tampering were bad eggs, Art Acevedo says, their colleagues acted "in good faith."
Texas Is Executing a Man Tonight for a Murder and Rape Experts Say He Didn't Commit
Forensic experts claim there is no way Larry Swearingen raped and killed Melissa Trotter. The state is still putting him to death.
Yes, America Faces a Threat From White Nationalists. No, More Laws Won't Fix That.
If your neighbor were unbalanced, armed to the teeth and busy posting social-media messages about how much he hates you, you'd certainly support measures to disarm him. But you'd feel more secure if he didn't hate you in the first place.
No, Texas Did Not Respond to El Paso Shooting by Passing Lenient Gun Laws
It's foolish for media outlets to imply that laws which were signed in May and June were passed in relation to the tragic shooting in El Paso.
Rep. Joaquin Castro's Doxxing of Trump Donors in His District Has Flipped the Campaign Finance Discourse on Its Head
Political donations are made public so that citizens can hold politicians accountable, not the other way around.
Body Camera Footage Shows Officer Killing Woman While Firing at Nonthreatening Dog
The Department of Justice calls puppycide an epidemic.
El Paso Walmart Shooter Allegedly Wrote Anti-Immigrant Manifesto Calling Hispanics 'Invaders'
Plus: A second shooting in Dayton leaves 9 dead, dozens injured.
Police Officer Shoots at Dog During Welfare Check, Kills Woman Instead
From puppycide to homicide
A Texas School District Implements Random Drug Testing
Want to join the robotics team? You'll need to pass a drug test first.
Another Benefit of Legalizing Hemp: It Makes the War on Weed Harder to Wage
Without expensive tests that measure THC content, Texas prosecutors can't prove that green stuff is marijuana.
New Chick-fil-A Law Reveals Texas Politicians' Hypocrisy on Corporate Speech
Fans of the state's new Chick-fil-A law should take a look at the anti–Boycott, Divestments, and Sanctions law.
24-Year-Old Booked on Drug Possession Charges Found Dead in Texas Jail
The inmate's death is the most recent in a string of fatalities at the Bexar County Jail.
Filthy, Overcrowded Border Detention Sites Called a 'Ticking Time Bomb'
Short-term holding tanks marked by poor food and unsanitary conditions as immigrants are imprisoned for weeks longer than they should be.
