• The Resistance has a Runoff in the Houston Suburbs
   
• Bunni Pounds Emerged from the Political Money Swamp to Run for Congress

• State Rejects ‘Anti-Muslim’ Police Training After Public Outcry
   
• Texas Has the Most Cities More than 100 Miles from an Abortion Clinic, Study Finds

The Lede
The Ghosts of Abandoned Texas Buildings Rise Up in an Eerie New Photo Book

• In 2009, driving home to Austin after a solo road trip to Big Bend Ranch State Park, Bronson Dorsey saw three abandoned buildings by the side of the highway near the tiny town of Langtry.
   
• At first he drove on, as he always had. But then a feeling Dorsey still can’t quite articulate spurred him to turn his pickup around. He spent more than an hour wandering in and around the buildings with his camera, snapping pictures, and he’s barely stopped since.
   
• The result is a starkly beautiful new coffee-table book called Lost, Texas, filled with arresting photos of 93 forgotten buildings from across the state.

• Austin’s on the Wrong Side of the 100th Meridian
   
• SMU Just Lost Its Independent Student Newspaper. Is Your College Next?

• How ‘Hostile Design’ Hides in Plain Sight in Austin
   
• A Masterful New History Explores the Contradictions and Complexities of Ciudad Juárez

From the archives
David Bowie in Aztlán

• Forty years ago, Chicano students in Crystal City created a Bowie-inspired rock opera.
   
• From the 2016 story: “When a cast member and his family were returning from a shopping trip in Piedras Negras, Mexico, some 35 miles from Crystal, a Border Patrol agent pulled them over for inspection. My student asked the officer why they were stopped. ‘We’re looking for aliens,’ he replied. To which our young actor retorted, ‘Oh, I didn’t know they’d landed.’ After that, we decided that our play might also explore how the Border Patrol perceived them — as aliens in their own land. A history teacher pointed out that during World War II, Crystal City had been the site of an ‘alien detention camp,’ then located across the street from our high school. Students added that they had relatives who had married into Japanese families.”

What’s Happening at the Observer

• The Observer's spring membership drive is over, but that doesn't mean you can't do your part. Join today to make sure that the important work we do can continue. It's easy, and it will cost you less than your Netflix subscription.
   
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