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Dear Texas Observer Community, I’m excited to share the news that, in October, the Observer will host our first in-person fundraising event of 2023, where Dr. Annette Gordon-Reed, author of On Juneteenth, will be in conversation with Kathleen McElroy
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Dear Observer Community, Short-term rentals—for which companies like Airbnb serve as brokers—are sucking up housing inventory across Texas, driving up prices for renters and home buyers alike. For longterm residents whose neighborhoods have been take
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West Texas Sage
Heading into the desert sun,I tail an enthusiastic storm.Tires zing on sizzling pavement,slash through puddleson the rain-darkened highway, Like a guardian flanking the roadto El Paso, a muscular mountainheaves up, sable master of the horizon,his hea

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