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A TICKET for the CHOW TRAIN Can a Car Town Make PERFORMING ‘TEXAS’ in the PANHANDLE Room for Bikes? ALSO A TICKET FOR THE CHOW TRAIN Can a Car Town Make PERFORMING ‘TEXAS’ IN THE PANHANDLE Room for Bikes? JULY | 2015 Migrant bodies buried in shallow unmarked graves and the Texas Ranger who found nothing wrong with it. Graves of Shame BY JOHN CARLOS FREY IN THIS ISSUE ON THE COVER: ILLUSTRATION BY TAYLOR CALLERY LEFT: Joan Cheever, founder of the Chow Train, prepares green beans for her weekly Tuesday-night outings to feed the homeless San Antonio. PHOTO BY JEN REEL 18SAVING GRACE When Joan Cheever was ticketed as she fed the needy in San Antonio, she invoked the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act in her defense. Can it be illegal to share food? by Katie Sherrod GRAVE CONCERN CULTURE Undocumented migrants who die in In the Panhandle, in summer, Texas Brooks County are often buried in takes the stage in Palo Duro Canyon. OBSERVER 10 mass graves without identification or 24 A lot has changed since the musical honor. They may also be buried illegally. was first performed 50 years ago. A lot hasn’t. ONLINE by John Carlos Frey by Robyn Ross There’s no rest for the wicked in REGULARS 07 GREATER STATE 36 DIRECT QUOTE 43 STATE OF THE MEDIA the dogs days of 01 DIALOGUE Outside the Lines Keeper of the Creek #nofilter summer. Check 02 POLITICAL by Claire Bow as told to Jen Reel by Andrea Grimes out original INTELLIGENCE reporting on 06 STATE OF TEXAS 32 FILM 38 POSTCARDS 44 FORREST FOR THE TREES mobile home 08 STRANGEST STATE Wild Horses Doesn’t Kicking Cars in Houston Home in the Crosshairs park profiteering 09 EDITORIAL Know When to Say Nay by Ian Dille by Forrest Wilder and unregulated 09 BEN SARGENT’S by Josh Rosenblatt LOON STAR STATE 42 POEM 45 EYE ON TEXAS waste disposal 34 THE BOOK REPORT “Rattlebone’s Rant” by Jay Lee at texasobserver.org In Her Words by B.R. Strahan by Amy Gentry THE TEXAS OBSERVER (ISSN 0040-4519/USPS 541300), entire contents copyrighted © 2014, is published monthly (12 issues per year) by the Texas Democracy Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit foundation, 307 W. 7th St., Austin TX, 78701. Telephone (512)477-0746, fax (512)474-1175, toll free (800)939-6620. Email observer@ texasobserver. org. Periodicals Postage paid in Austin, TX, and at additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER Send address changes to: The Texas Observer, 307 W. 7th St., Austin TX 78701. Subscriptions: 1 yr $35, 2 yr $60, 3 yr $85. Students $20. Foreign, add $13 to domestic price. Back issues $5. Airmail, foreign, group, and bulk rates on request. Microfilm available from University Microfilms Intl., 300 N Zeeb Rd, Ann Arbor MI 48106. INDEXES The Texas Observer is indexed in Access: The Supplementary Index to Periodicals; Texas Index; and, for the years 1954 through 1981, The Texas Observer Index. INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING is supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Institute. BOOKS & THE CULTURE is funded in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts. A JOURNAL OF FREE VOICES since 1954 OBSERVER VOLUME 107, NO. 7 DIALOGUE FOUNDING EDITOR Ronnie Dugger Then They Came for our Bats… EDITOR Joe Cutbirth MANAGING EDITOR Brad Tyer My trainer at the gym is really a big baseball fan. He played for TCU and is raising his ASSOCIATE EDITOR Forrest Wilder MULTIMEDIA EDITOR Jen Reel son in his image. So when I told him (as a joke) that the Texas Legislature was about STAFF WRITERS to outlaw baseball, he said, “No way, that would be dumb!” My reply was, “Wait a Melissa del Bosque, Alexa Garcia-Ditta, Christopher minute, they are about to pass a law allowing guns in public and private colleges, and Hooks, Patrick Michels ART DIRECTION Chad Tomlinson another one that would prevent an abortion when the fetus is severely deformed. POETRY EDITOR Naomi Shihab Nye STAFF CARTOONIST Ben Sargent Isn’t that dumb?” So don’t sell our legislators short. Baseball just might be next! COPY EDITOR David Duhr Herman I. Morris CONTRIBUTING WRITERS F o rt W o rt h Lou Dubose, Saul Elbein, v i a e m a i l Andrea Grimes, Alex Hannaford, Carolyn Jones, Steven G. Kellman, Robert Leleux, James McWilliams, Bill abortion access for low-income people nationwide. Minutaglio, Priscila Mosqueda, Mission Creep? We’re very proud of our funds, and the connections Rachel Pearson, Robyn Ross regarding your eye on texas photo shoWing hoW to and support that we provide and that they provide CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Alan Pogue, Matt Wright-Steel crash a pool and “shotgun” a beer (June issue): Let’s each other. Lindsay Rodriguez ommunications a n a g e r INTERNS see, your mission statement reads in part, “We are c m Lyanne Guarecuco, Teresa dedicated to the whole truth, to human values above n at i o n a l n et W o r k o F a b o rt i o n F u n d s Mioli, Alli Rubenak all interests … never will we overlook or misrepre- b o s t o n , m a s s . PUBLISHER Emily Williams sent the truth to serve the interests of the powerful v i a e m a i l MEMBERSHIP MANAGER or cater to the ignoble in the human spirit.” In the in- Jacqueline Galvan terest of the whole truth you might want to see how While the organizations highlighted in “navigat- AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT MANAGER much Modelo is making off of all of us, young folks in ing a New Reality” are not directly affiliated with one Michael Schrantz particular. You might also want to take a look at the another, they are indeed members of the National Net- DIGITAL ASSOCIATE Tess Bonn “catering to the ignoble” part as well. I suggest tak- work of Abortions Funds. —t h e e d i t o r s BUSINESS ASSOCIATE Beth Bond ing a look at the numbers that CDC has on the social TEXAS DEMOCRACY costs of alcohol, and how much the alcoholic bever- FOUNDATION BOARD age industry is raking in, promoted by articles such as Cade Bernsen, Carlton Carl, this one in The Texas Observer. Bob Frump, Melissa Jones, Susan Longley, Vince LoVoi, If you need some additional help with your arti- Jim Marston, Mary Nell cle on the alcoholic beverage industry, its income, Mathis, Heather Paffe, Ronald its advertising and its social costs, you can give Rapoport, Peter Ravella, Texans Standing Tall a ring. They are very handy, Katie Smith, Greg Wooldridge, right there in Austin. Some additional very good Ronnie Dugger (emeritus) help can be obtained on advertising techniques OUR MISSION We will serve no group or party from the New Mexico Media Literacy Project. but will hew hard to the truth Rex Carey as we find it and the right as m i d l o t h i a n we see it. We are dedicated v i a e m a i l to the whole truth, to human values above all interests, to the rights of humankind as the foundation of democracy. We Better Connected will take orders from none but i Would like to ask For a correction to the other- our own conscience, and never wise excellent story by Alexa Garcia-Ditta (“Navi- will we overlook or misrepresent gating a New Reality,” May issue). The piece states the truth to serve the interests that these abortion funds have no official affiliation, of the powerful or cater to the ignoble in the human spirit. when in fact they are member funds of the Nation- Sound Off CONTACT US al Network of Abortion Funds, a network of local 307 W. 7th St., Austin, Texas member funds across the country and beyond that [email protected] 78701, (512) 477-0746 funds abortions and works to protect and sustain or comment on facebook.com/texasobserver and texasobserver.org JULY 2015 THE TEXAS OBSERVER | 1 POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE LGBT FILES No Special Session on Gay Marriage anti-lgbt activists are livid about the 84th texas protect Texas’ sovereignty from being usurped by Legislature’s failure to pass discriminatory bills. A the federal government and the federal judiciary,” he day after lawmakers gaveled out, 14 leaders from continued. “We are convinced that he will continue to anti-gay groups delivered a letter to Republican Gov. fight to protect Texans from having the federal courts Greg Abbott demanding that he call a special session illegitimately impose homosexual marriage on Texas.” to pass a bill aimed at undermining an expected U.S. Abbott’s office didn’t return a phone call seeking Supreme Court ruling in favor of marriage equality. comment, but the governor has indicated that he From left to right, Cindy Asmussen, Jan Jones and “This issue is not about equality. It is about rede- doesn’t intend to call a special session. Mary Smith hold signs at fining marriage, which would lead to individuals, The letter to Abbott capped weeks of finger- a Defense of the Texas Marriage Amendment families, churches, schools and businesses being pointing by anti-gay activists after it became clear rally outside the state forced to accept, affirm and celebrate those who prac- that none of the more than 20 anti-LGBT proposals Capitol on March 23. The event was headlined by tice homosexuality,” wrote Dr. Steve Hotze, president introduced in this year’s session would pass. In May, Alabama Supreme Court of the Conservative Republicans of Texas, in a post on Texas Values President Jonathan Saenz lashed out Chief Justice Roy Moore.
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