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Covers:  Criminal justice; environment; corruption; human rights.
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A Queer Texan Retraces Steinbeck’s 10,000-mile trip

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By Lise Olsen Verified
| The Texas Observer Verified
John Steinbeck was already suffering serious heart trouble when, in 1962, he and his dog clambered into a pickup with a camper topper for a cross-country trip chronicled in his famous final book, Travels with Charley. Six decades later, Austin writer Lauren Hough sets out in a 2001 Dodge Ram van with her dog, a mutt named Woody, to discover whether they can survive a similar 10,000-mile trip in a much-altered America.
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The Troubling Disappearance of ‘El Gallito’

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By Lise Olsen Verified
| The Texas Observer Verified
Ernesto Gonzales liked to hold court in the morning from a corner booth of El Rancho in Harlingen, a busy local eatery festooned with multicolored papel picado party banners—one of several spots he frequented after rising at dawn and reading the Bible. Between slurps of coffee—he drank it like water—and bites of breakfast taco, he would pause to finger his brushy, ample mustache and call out greetings.
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A Black Cowboy Museum, Rebooted

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By Lise Olsen Verified
| Inkl
Larry Callies ambles through the Black Cowboy Museum in downtown Rosenberg, southwest of Houston, sporting his straw Stetson and a pair of worn work boots. The founder and CEO of the museum, he’s spinning stories in his compelling, though perennially strained, voice.
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