DOCSLIB.ORG

The Changing Culture of Killing for Food. by Andrea Grimes in THIS ISSUE on the COVER: Austin Hunter Elaine Holton

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
The Changing Culture of Killing for Food. by Andrea Grimes in THIS ISSUE on the COVER: Austin Hunter Elaine Holton beaumont’s dysfunctional schools | a remembrance of mobs past in Gainesville NOVEMBER | 2014 Joining the Hunt The Changing Culture of Killing for Food. BY ANDREA GRIMES IN THIS ISSUE ON THE COVER: Austin hunter Elaine Holton. PHOTO BY MATT RAINWATERS LEFT: Beaumont’s West Brook High School Bruins wait to take the field on homecoming night. PHOTO BY PATRICK MICHELS 10HITTING BOTTOM Is Beaumont ISD the most dysfunctional school district in Texas? by Patrick Michels DREG CITY CULTURE How Nordheim thus far missed The Thrall of the Wild the South Texas oil boom. by Andrea Grimes OBSERVER 22 by Alex Hannaford 28 ONLINE Observer editors REGULARS 07 BIG BEAT 36 DIRECT QUOTE 43 STATE OF THE MEDIA and reporters 01 DIALOGUE Access Denied on The Descriptive Art of Ebola Trolling will be producing 02 POLITICAL the Border Celia Hughes by Andrea Grimes news and INTELLIGENCE by Cindy Casares as told to Jen Reel analysis of the 06 STATE OF TEXAS 44 FORREST FOR THE TREES Nov. 4 election— 08 TYRANT’s FOE 32 FILM 38 POSTCARDS Greg Abbott and the who lost, who 09 EdITORIAL Ornette in Focus Remembering a Mob in Criminalization of won, and what 09 BEN SARGENT’s by Josh Rosenblatt Gainesville Voter Registration LOON STAR STATE by Abby Rapoport by Forrest Wilder it means for 34 THE BOOK REPORT Texas’ future— Selling Texas to 42 POEM 45 EYE ON TEXAS throughout the World American Abundance, by Drew Anthony Smith November. Keep by Brad Tyer or First Trip to H-E-B up with our Grocery Store coverage at by José Antonio texasobserver.org Rodríguez a Journal of free voices since 1954 OBSERVER VOLUME 106, NO. 11 DIALOGUE foundinG editor Ronnie Dugger If you can’t say something constructive… editor Dave Mann manaGinG editor Brad Tyer Thirteen-plus years of a Rick Perry-led government has set back education in associate editor Forrest Wilder Texas at least 20 years (“State of Texas: Low Pay and Greater Expectations Have multimedia editor Jen Reel Web editor Jonathan McNamara Texas Teachers Singing the Blues,” Oct. 1, texasobserver.org). Testing is out of politics WRITER Christopher Hooks control and throwing blame has become a favorite pastime of legislators as well staff Writers Melissa del Bosque, Emily DePrang, as educators. It is time to stop finding fault and start doing something about it! Patrick Michels publisher Emily Williams Tish Wilson CONTROLLEr Krissi Trumeter p o s t e d at texasobserver . o r g membership manaGer Jacqueline Galvan the Legislature, the oil companies and Trans art direction EmDash Fighting the Canada to create even more pollution. People poetry editor Naomi Shihab Nye have had to move away because the air and water staff cartoonist Ben Sargent God Fight pollution is so bad and families are constantly COPY editor David Duhr as a sixth-generation texan, i am ashamed that getting sick. But they keep voting for the same people in our state elected a man who clearly has people, time after time. contributinG Writers Stephanie Palmer Lou Dubose, Saul Elbein, not made any effort to understand the Constitu- Alex Hannaford, Carolyn tion (“New Senator Charles Perry: We’re Living in p o s t e d at texasobserver . o r g Jones, Steven G. Kellman, Holocaust II,” Oct. 1, texasobserver.org). Even here Robert Leleux, James in Texas, not everyone is a Christian, and some of McWilliams, Bill Minutaglio, Innocent from Priscila Mosqueda, us do understand the reasons behind our founders’ Robyn Ross, Ellen Sweets decision to create a secular government. I may con- the Start contributinG photoGraphers tinue to be in the minority here for a long time yet, Alan Pogue, Matt Wright-Steel but I will fight these theocrats all the way to the end. My mother knew Mr. Graf back in the day (“Re-Tri- Keith Babberney al of Ed Graf’s Flawed Arson Case Begins in Waco,” interns Beth Bond, Cody Alder, Krystal p o s t e d at texasobserver . o r g Oct. 6, texasobserver.com). She has contended that Carr, Asher Elbein he is innocent the whole time. At the time of his texas democracy conviction, McLennan County was represented by foundation board Mishandling Texans a suspect district attorney who employed an equal- Carlton Carl, Bob Frump, Lori and J.b. CoLLins, thank you so muCh for shar- ly suspect investigator. See some recent writings Melissa Jones, Susan Longley, Vince LoVoi, Jim Marston, ing your unbelievably sad story, and for your cour- on the “Lake Waco Murders.” Very much Michael Mary Nell Mathis, Ronald age and fighting spirit (“Crossing the Line,” Sep- Morton stuff. Rapoport, Peter Ravella, tember issue). And Saul Elbein, my appreciation Michael Glass Katie Smith, Greg Wooldridge, Ronnie Dugger (emeritus) for such a thorough article, particularly in allow- p o s t e d at fa C e b o o k . C o m / texasobserver ing the words and actions of specific TransCanada our mission We will serve no group or party employees and representatives to stand as a testa- but will hew hard to the truth ment to who they are. In a state like Texas, where a as we find it and the right as handshake is considered binding and keeping one’s we see it. We are dedicated to the whole truth, to human word is a reflection of integrity, I too was amazed at values above all interests, to the (in)actions of TransCanada and their minions. the rights of humankind as the They say they did exhaustive engineering studies foundation of democracy. We will take orders from none but on this pipeline and its route across the Lone Star our own conscience, and never State, but TransCanada (“just a word,” as Mr. Wal- will we overlook or misrepresent drop stated) sure didn’t do its homework on Texans. the truth to serve the interests Julia Trigg Crawford of the powerful or cater to the ignoble in the human spirit. p o s t e d at texasobserver . o r g Sound Off contact us 307 W. 7th St., Austin, Texas texas has aLways pushed Less reguLation. texas [email protected] 78701, (512) 477-0746 may be very big, but that just allows the governor, or comment on facebook.com/texasobserver and texasobserver.org November 2014 THE TE xAS observer | 1 POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE THE TEEN Beat Out Standing in Their Field they Came from daLLas, CoLLege station and Can- Word of the backroads bacchanal spread around ton, even from surrounding states, as many as 5,000, the rural county west of Tyler and briefly became some as young as 13, to party in a Van Zandt County statewide news. Local authorities, the Texas Alcoholic pasture on a Saturday night in June. Word spread on Beverage Commission and the state comptroller WATCH video of Dan social media. “Heading to Gods [sic] country with 2 investigated. Van Zandt County veterinarian Dwayne Cummins’ address at txlo.com/cummins bins full of Jell-O shots,” one reveler wrote on Insta- Collins, chairman of the Edom TEA Party, was unwill- gram. They handed over $5 at the gate, drank Crown ing to cede this dusty ground to the basest instincts of and Bacardi, smoked pot and spice and had sex in the youth and announced plans to respond in kind with The Ben Wheeler God & open field. Used condoms and party cups littered the his own “Ben Wheeler God & Country Pasture Party.” Country Pasture Party earth. Once authorities arrived, it took hours to clear This, he announced, would look nothing like that made for a sober Saturday night in Van Zandt County. the crowd, care for the wounded (fistfights, flying “drunken drug fest” back in June. PHOTO BY PATRICK MICHELS beer bottles) and respond to reported gunfire. On a pleasant Saturday evening in early September, 2 | THE TE xAS observer WWW.TExasobserver.org POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE beneath a tower of clouds lit by a stunning sunset, a went bad, he had made his stand. For tonight, at least, TRIVIATEXAS Which unlikely crowd of about 250 descended on another Van Zandt the field was his. —patriCk miCheLs County field to, in effect, take back the pasture. plaintiff did Greg The night began with a scene equal parts Norman Abbott—the Texas Rockwell and Thomas Kinkade: a trio of Boy Scouts PROFILES IN PROFITEERING attorney general slowly raising the Stars and Stripes while, across the and favorite to shimmering pond behind them, three crosses kept A Faceless Problem become Texas’ watch atop a replica Calvary Hill. there’s nothing niCe about JaiL. the food stinks. next governor— Collins appeared onstage in a straw cowboy hat Distractions are few. People are in a bad mood. once oppose in and a denim shirt with short sleeves, one of which The best you can hope for is to get out quickly with a 2005 case was colored like a Texas flag. The events of last minimum hassle. One of the few things you have before the U.S. summer, on a field just 3 miles away, had been “a to look forward to is a visit from a friend or a loved Supreme Court? manifestation of the problems we’re facing in our one—a brief face-to-face connection to remind society today,” he said. Tonight would be a chance you that the world is waiting on the other side of a. A homeless man to show young people that you don’t need drinks or the glass. But some Texas jails are eliminating in- b. A prairie dog drugs to have a good time in the pasture.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • The Texas Observer DEC. 13, 1963
    The Texas Observer DEC. 13, 1963 A Journal of Free Voices A Window to The South 25c Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald? Dallas Much has been written about Lee Harvey Oswald, 24, of New Orleans, Fort Worth, and, for a time, the Soviet Union, but I have learned the most about him as he was on November 22 in Dallas from two long interviews here, one with a man who had an argument with him less than a month before that day and one with a man who knew him as well as anyone who has spoken up. His mother, too, has had a part of her say, but she is determined to sell her story; she did not know him well at the end; and he had moved beyond her influence. His brothers kept then ovvr: cywnsel. His wife has yet to talk to reporters, other than a Life team who did not report much from her. And he is dead now. The argument occurred at a meeting of the Dallas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union at Selectman Hall on the S.M.U. campus Oct. 25. Michael Paine, Os- wald's only close acquaintance, as far as is known, during the last months of his life, had brought him as a guest. The program for the evening was built around a showing of a film developing the theme that a Washington state legislator had been defeated by right'-'wing attacks based on previous communist-type associa- tions of the legislator's wife. The discussion was running along the theme that liberals should oppose witch-hunts, but with scru- pulous methods.
    [Show full text]
  • Women Are Twice As Likely As Men to Have PTSD. You Just Don't Hear
    Burden of War Women are twice as likely as men to have PTSD. You just don’t hear about it. BY ALEX HANNAFORD JUNE | 2014 IN THIS ISSUE ON THE COVER: ILLUSTRATION BY EDEL RODRIGUEZ Above: Crystal Bentley, who spent most of her childhood as a ward of the state, now advocates for improving foster care in Texas. PHOTO BY PATRICK MICHELS 18FOSTERING NEGLECT Foster care reforms are supposed to fix a flawed system. They could end up making things worse. by EMILY DEPRANG and BETH CORTEZ-NEAVEL Don’t CaLL THEM VICTIMS CULTURE Women veterans are twice as likely Building a better brick in Mason as men to experience PTSD. Nobody by Ian Dille OBSERVER 10 wants to talk about that. 26 by Alex Hannaford ONLINE Check out award-winning REGULARS 07 BIG BEAT 34 THE BOOK REPORT 42 POEM work by The 01 DIALOGUE Immigration reformers The compassionate Drift MOLLY National POLITICAL need to do it for imagination of by Christia 02 Journalism Prize INTELLIGENCE themselves Sarah Bird Madacsi Hoffman 06 STATE OF TEXAS by Cindy Casares by Robert Leleux winners—chosen 08 TYRANT’s FOE 43 STATE OF THE MEDIA by a distinguished 09 EdITORIAL 32 FILM 36 DIRECT QUOTE Rick Perry throws good panel of judges 09 BEN SARGENT’s Joe Lansdale’s genre- Buffalo soldiering in money after bad and announced at LOON STAR STATE bending novel Cold Balch Springs by Bill Minutaglio our annual prize in July jumps to the as told to Jen Reel dinner June 3—at big screen 44 FORREST FOR THE TREES texasobserver.org by Josh Rosenblatt 38 POSTCARDS Getting frivolous with The truth is out there? Greg Abbott by Patrick Michels by Forrest Wilder 45 EYE ON TEXAS by Sandy Carson A JOURNAL OF FREE VOICES since 1954 OBSERVER VOLUME 106, NO.
    [Show full text]
  • Personnel for West Brook High School: 37 Title I Schoolwide Elements 38 ELEMENT 1
    Beaumont Independent School District West Brook High School 2019-2020 Accountability Rating: C Distinction Designations: Academic Achievement in English Language Arts/Reading Board Approval Date: October 17, 2019 West Brook High School Campus #123910008 1 of 47 Generated by Plan4Learning.com April 22, 2020 3:50 pm Mission Statement Beaumont Independent School District: Moto: Preparing Our Next Generation Vision: In collaboration with the entire community, we will create an inclusie environment of academic eccellence that supports the diverse needs of all learners. Mission: We will inspire and prepare all students for lifelong success by providing an excemplary education in a safe learning environment. West Brook Senior High School Mission: West Brook High School will graduate skilled, life-long learners who are and can inspire others to be respected, productive citizens. We ensure the students we promote have mastered the prerequisites necessary for success at the next level of endeavor. We will accomplish this goal by providing a relevant, diverse, and challenging curriculum taught by an effective cooperative staff in a supportive safe environment. The campus improvement plan is a living, working document based upon the needs of West Brook High School. This document can and will be modified as needed, throughout the school year. Vision In collaboration with the entire community, we will become a national model for the transformation of a high-poverty public high school. Core Beliefs Core Beliefs: All children can learn. We can achieve higher levels of performance within every facet of our organization. Every classroom should have an effective teacher and every school should have an effective principal.
    [Show full text]
  • You Never Call. You Never Write. How Many Times Have You Thought About Your Friends from College, but Didn’T Have a Clue About How to Actually Reach Them!
    You never call. You never write. How many times have you thought about your friends from college, but didn’t have a clue about how to actually reach them! The NEW LU Alumni Online Community will help you get in touch. Log on today! www.lamar.edu/alumni Alumni Directory | e-mail an LU friend, update your personal data or post class notes. Groups | Reconnect with Greeks, organizations and affinity groups. News and Events | get the latest campus news and information on upcoming alumni and campus events. Career Networking | post or seek a resume, check out job postings from other alums, make business connections and mentor others. And Much More | Wallpapers and school song to personalize your desktop, message boards and chats! To register, follow the link to the Alumni Community for New User directions. Locate your user ID on the mailing label found on this page. NON-PROFIT ORG. U.S. POSTAGE LAMAR UNIVERSITY PAID Member of The Texas State University System PERMIT NO. 54 BEAUMONT, TX 77710 P.O. Box 10011 Now is the time to invest Beaumont, TX 77710 in Lamar, invest in our students, invest in the future of Southeast Texas... CadenceCARDINAL VOL. 36 NO. 2 | OCTOBER 2008 Magazine Design: Mike Rhodes From the President Cover illustration: Eugene Anderson CARDINAL DEPARTMENTS Cadence 4 On campus 32 DreamBuilders 46 Class notes 64 Arts & Culture Greetings from Lamar University, The Staff Hurricane Ike dealt a heavy blow to Southeast Texas—in particular 30 Campaign impact 37 Athletics 57 Giving report Cardinal Cadence is published by the Division of University to our coastal communities—but restoration is moving ahead.
    [Show full text]
  • Reaud Excellence in Education Award Gala
    REAUD EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION AWARD GALA May 3, 2016 John Gray Library, 8th Floor Lamar University Order of Events 6:00 PM Reception and Photographs (During the reception each recipient will have photos taken with their respective superintendent and principal.) 6:25 PM Welcome and Pledge of Allegiance Judge John B. Stevens, Jr. Criminal District Court Jefferson County Invocation Rev. Rick White Pastor Christian Fellowship Worship Center 6:30 PM Dinner 7:00 PM Introduction of Special Guests Judge John B. Stevens, Jr. Opening Remarks and W. Frank Newton Introduction of Speaker President & CEO Beaumont Foundation Speaker Honorable Keith F. Giblin Magistrate Judge United States District Court Eastern District of Texas Presentation of Awards Judge John B. Stevens, Jr. Wayne A. Reaud Chairman of the Board Beaumont Foundation 8:15 PM Closing Remarks Wayne A. Reaud Music provided by Kay Miller Horne Reaud Excellence in Education Award WAYNE A. REAUD Chairman, Beaumont Foundation, and Founder, Reaud, Morgan & Quinn, L.L.P. As part of the Beaumont Foundation's ongoing commitment to support education, the Reaud Excellence in Education Award was created to celebrate and recognize superior contributions of teachers whose leadership and dedication inspire a spirit of learning in students of all backgrounds and abilities. Teachers are selected annually to receive this prestigious Award and will receive $10,000 each in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the education system of Southeast Texas. This year’s recipients were selected from an impressive collection of nominations submitted by schools throughout Southeast Texas. Mr. Reaud stated, “Education is the key to a better future and great teachers are the key to education.
    [Show full text]
  • SUB FINAL RANK TEAM NAME CITY TOTAL Point Safety SCORE 1 San Angelo Central High School San Angelo 72.500 0.00 0.00 72.500 2 Jo
    Texas State Spirit Championships - Preliminary Round January 1, 2016 FIGHT SONG- 6A (Out of 80 possible points) SUB DEDUCTIONS FINAL RANK TEAM NAME CITY TOTAL Point Safety SCORE 1 San Angelo Central High School San Angelo 72.500 0.00 0.00 72.500 2 John Horn High School Mesquite 72.400 0.00 0.00 72.400 3 Johnson High School San Antonio 70.533 0.50 0.00 70.033 4 Carroll Senior High School Southlake 69.533 0.00 0.00 69.533 5 Canyon High School New Braunfels 68.333 0.00 0.00 68.333 6 Flower Mound High School Flower Mound 67.967 0.00 0.00 67.967 7 McAllen Memorial High School McAllen 67.733 0.00 0.00 67.733 8 Oak Ridge High School Conroe 67.300 0.00 0.00 67.300 9 Dickinson High School Dickinson 65.300 0.00 0.00 65.300 10 Friendswood High School Friendswood 70.200 0.00 5.00 65.200 11 Keller Central High School Keller 65.100 0.00 0.00 65.100 12 Colleyville Heritage High School Colleyville 64.967 0.00 0.00 64.967 13 Pearland High School Pearland 64.867 0.00 0.00 64.867 14 West Brook High School Beaumont 64.733 0.00 0.00 64.733 15 Timber Creek High School Keller 63.767 0.00 0.00 63.767 16 Allen High School Allen 63.733 0.00 0.00 63.733 17 Clear Lake High School Houston 63.533 0.00 0.00 63.533 18 McKinney Boyd High School McKinney 63.200 0.00 0.00 63.200 19 Cypress Falls High School Houston 62.767 0.00 0.00 62.767 20 Montgomery High School Montgomery 62.500 0.00 0.00 62.500 21 Midlothian High School Midlothian 62.467 0.00 0.00 62.467 22 Byron Nelson High School Trophy Club 62.367 0.00 0.00 62.367 23 Cypress Ranch High School Cypress 61.733 0.00
    [Show full text]
  • An Ethnographic Exploration of Coach-Player Relations in A
    SURVIVING THE GRIDIRON: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC EXPLORATION OF COACH-PLAYER RELATIONS IN A TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PROGRAM A Dissertation by JORDAN ANTHONEY DANIEL Submitted to the Office of Graduate and Professional Studies of Texas A&M University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Chair of Committee, John Dunlap Co-Chair of Committee, Kyle Woosnam Committee Members, David Scott Michael Edwards Jennifer Williams Head of Department, Gary Ellis December 2013 Major Subject: Recreation, Park, and Tourism Sciences Copyright 2013 Jordan Anthoney Daniel ABSTRACT Using positive youth development theory, this ethnographic study explores the idioculture of a Texas high school football team with particular insights into the intentionality of the coach’s language with players. It yielded descriptions of certain behaviors, practices, and idioms that constitute the football program’s idioculture and allow for exploration of a youth sport context that promotes positive youth development. Additional exploration developed the ways in which players on a Texas high school football team perceive the coach/player relationship relative to the coaching staff’s efforts to motivate their players. Further exploration of these interpretations describe certain practices, artifacts and behaviors of coaches and players. In doing so, the themes of coach/player interactions, motivational techniques, and the community context are investigated to permit the better understanding of how coaches’ actions contribute to players’ experiences and their interpretation. Players reported that “new school” coaches who actively sought to motivate and engage players were better equipped to form more meaningful mentoring relationships with the players. This is opposed to “old school” coaches, who were viewed by the players to be less supportive and, at times, very distant to what the players wanted.
    [Show full text]
  • REQUEST for PROPOSAL DIGITAL SIGNAGE SERVICES Beaumont
    REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL DIGITAL SIGNAGE SERVICES Beaumont Independent School District RFP # 18.00 Digital Signage Services Pre-Proposal Meeting Monday July 31, 2017 DUE DATE: Monday August 7, 2017 before 9:00am RFP 18.00 Digital Signage Services Dr. John Frossard B E A U M O N T Superintendent of Schools Independent School District Purchasing Department Clifton English Purchasing Agent 3395 Harrison Avenue, Beaumont , TX 77706 (409) 617-5041 Fax (409) 617-5175 LEGAL NOTICE Invitation for Bid 7/21/17 Notice is hereby given that the following RFP 18.00 Digital Signage Services will be accepted by Beaumont Independent School District on or before 8/7/17 prior to 9:00am. Specifications for this project may be reviewed via emailed delivery or pick up at the Beaumont ISD Administration Building Purchasing Department. Only paper copies will be accepted. Bids are to state the number and name of the project on the outside of the sealed envelope. Bidders shall forward an original and one (1) copy of their bid to the address shown below. Late bids will be rejected as non-responsive. Bids will be publicly opened and read aloud at the time/date below. Bidders are invited to attend the sealed bid opening. Bid NO: 18.00 Bid Name: Digital Signage Services BID OPENING: Conference Room A Beaumont ISD Administration 3395 Harrison Avenue Beaumont, Texas 77706 MAIL OR DELIVER TO: Beaumont Independent School District Purchasing Department 3395 Harrison Avenue Beaumont, Texas 77706 Any questions relating to these requirements please contact Clifton English at 409-617-5041 or [email protected].
    [Show full text]
  • November 22, 1996 • $1.75 a Journal of Free Voices
    A JOURNAL OF FREE VOICES NOVEMBER 22, 1996 • $1.75 THIS ISSUE FEATURES The Populists Return to Texas by Karen Olsson One hundred years ago, the Farmers' Alliance took on the banks, from the Texas Hill Country. This month, their political heirs take aim at the corporations. Communities Fight Pollution (& SOME Win) by Carol S. Stall 7 An EPA-sponsored roundtable in San Antonio brings together community stakeholders on environmental action. Meanwhile, a small Texas town wins one round. How the Contras Invaded the U.S. by Dennis Bernstein and Robert Knight 10 The recent allegations about CIA involvement in the crack trade are not exactly news. VOLUME 88, NO. 23 There has long been ample evidence of the dirty hands of U.S. "assets" in Nicaragua. A JOURNAL OF FREE VOICES We will serve no group or party but will hew hard to the Blind Justice Comes to the Polls by W. Burns Taylor 13 truth as we find it and the right as we see it. We are ded- icated to the whole truth, to human values above all in- On November 5, a group of El Paso citizens exercised the right to a secret ballot terests, to the rights of human-kind as the foundation of for the very first time. Now they're hoping the State of Texas will see the light. democracy: we will take orders from none but our own conscience, and never will we overlook or misrepresent the truth to serve the interests of the powerful or cater to the ignoble in the human spirit.
    [Show full text]
  • The Lantern, Chester SC-October 7, 1904
    Winthrop University Digital Commons @ Winthrop University The heC ster Lantern 1904 The heC ster Lantern 10-7-1904 The Lantern, Chester S.C.- October 7, 1904 J T. Bigham Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/chesterlantern1904 Part of the Journalism Studies Commons, and the Social History Commons Recommended Citation Bigham, J T., "The Lantern, Chester S.C.- October 7, 1904" (1904). The Chester Lantern 1904. 79. https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/chesterlantern1904/79 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The heC ster Lantern at Digital Commons @ Winthrop University. It has been accepted for inclusion in The heC ster Lantern 1904 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Winthrop University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. NTERN. , S. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1904. SUCCESS, mocratic dicsepsiona Jha Repub- nuuaa. Col. Morae on Gambling. K-'MJJMy...!* Court ia Wionsboro. A Nrgto? No. "** is when hams are Charging that Chairman ion that the of tha cam- We are informed that the ore- The case of Keys vs. The Winni Another lynching? Certainly. A united—in the Dsm M'cGrsw ia aeceretly working to paign has ju and that dur torical hit ot the Cotton Planter's bO'O Granite Company, which was negro. No. Por the unmentiona- octette column. The IsteR bitting mskehfmstlftlie succersor of Sen- Ing the next 1 a record Convention recently held at St. being tried at the lim^ of going to wes at 10 to 9 that Hsrrlck would etor Scott and that he will use the breaking should be wsg- ble crime? Ns.
    [Show full text]
  • They Left Behind
    Hundreds have died anonymously crossing the Also border in South Texas. The things they carried SANDRA CISNEROS on her beloved house may help researchers unlock their identities. WENDY DAVIS on her past and future NOVEMBER | 2015 THE THINGS They Left Behind PHOTO ESSAY BY JEN REEL IN THIS ISSUE ON THE COVER: PHOTOS BY JEN REEL LEFT: Wendy Davis in her Austin condominium PHOTO BY JEN REEL 10THE INTERVIEW Wendy Davis’ mea culpa by Christopher Hooks THE THINGS RECKONING THE WAITING THEY LEFT WITH ROSIE GAME BEHIND What the 1977 death With a dearth of services OBSERVER 18 Clothes and jewelry 12 of a young McAllen 24 for the intellectually ONLINE found in unmarked graves may woman says about today’s disabled, Texans like Betty For our extended help give names to the nameless. anti-abortion laws. Calderon end up on the streets. Photo essay by Jen Reel by Alexa Garcia-Ditta by John Savage interview with Wendy Davis, including her REGULARS 07 GREATER STATE 36 BOOK EXCERPT 43 THE GRIMES SCENE take on the Texas 01 DIALOGUE From the Bottom, Up Sandra Cisneros What’s Your legislature and 02 POLITICAL by Ronnie Dugger On Her Problem, Man? Governor Greg INTELLIGENCE San Antonio House by Andrea Grimes Abbott, visit 06 STATE OF TEXAS 30 CULTURE texasobserver.org 08 STRANGEST STATE An Artist 38 POSTCARDS 44 LEFT HOOKS 09 EDITORIAL Interprets Violence Epitaph for The Gutting 09 BEN SARGENT’S by Michael Agresta an Alligator of Medicaid LOON STAR STATE by Asher Elbein by Christopher Hooks 34 FILM U.S. Fuel in a 42 POEM 45 EYE ON TEXAS Mexican Conflagration “How Far You by Guillermo Hernandez by Josh Rosenblatt Are From Me” by Eloísa Pérez-Lozano THE TEXAS OBSERVER (ISSN 0040-4519/USPS 541300), entire contents copyrighted © 2015, is published monthly (12 issues per year) by the Texas Democracy Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit foundation, 307 W.
    [Show full text]
  • Fighting Dirty Police Admired Barry Cooper When He Lied to Put Drug Dealers in Prison
    Fighting Dirty Police admired Barry Cooper when he lied to put drug dealers in prison. Then he flipped the game on them. BY MICHAEL Mkb ON THE COVER Barry Cooper and Jello the pig face off PHOTO BY MATT WRIGHT-STEEL LOCATION AND PIG COURTESY OF GREEN GATE FARMS, AUSTIN 12TOO BLACK FOR SCHOOL by Foffest How race skews school discipline in Texas Brandarion Thomas (left) landed in court for grabbing a classmate. His mother thought that was too much. PHOTO BY FORREST WILDER FLIM—FLAM FIGHTING DIRTY by Melissa del Bosque by Michael May How Rick Perry has spun disastrous Police admired Barry Cooper when OBSERVER economic policies into winning politics 16 he lied to put drug dealers in prison. 06 Then he flipped the game on them. ONLINE See videos of Barry Cooper's REGULARS 26 DATELINE: 25 STATE OF THE MEDIA 2.1 URBAN COWGIRL stings and 01 DIALOGUE EL PASO Borderline Bias Space Politics watch a mini— 02 POLITICAL Recollections of a West by Bill Minutaglio by Ruth Pennebaker documentary on INTELLIGENCE Texas Dreamer the photo shoot 05 EDITORIAL by Elroy Bode 26 BOOK REVIEW 23 PURPLE STATE for the cover story. 05 BEN SARGENT'S Radical Write Populism vs. www.texasobserver.org LOON STAR STATE 22 CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK by Todd Moye WASPulism 19 HIGHTOWER REPORT Slack and Slash Cinema by Bob Moser 23 POETRY by Josh RosenbiaU by Alexander Maksik 29 EYE ON TEXAS by Sarah Wilson A JOURNAL OF FREE VOICES SINCE 1954 I V* OBSERVER VOLUME 102, NO. 8 1111.0011E FOUNDING EDITOR Ronnie Dugger Turd Blossom Special EDITOR Bob Moser MANAGING EDITOR I was shocked to see an acquaintance post that he had become a fan of Karl Rove on Chris Tomlinson ASSOCIATE EDITOR Dave Mann Facebook ("Bush's Fist," April 16).
    [Show full text]