(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . The Texas Observer Will Remain Open! [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-03-29 If you get good news, celebrate! Texas is important. It has a lot of electoral votes and Congressional districts. Texas is gradually going purple, despite the fierce fighting of MAGA’ts and other undesireables. Textbook publishing companies generally tend to follow the Texas line, whatever that is (“Evolution is a theory”) The Texas Observer is a newspaper that is important in the fight to bring sanity and progressive thought to Texas. Recently, it looked like it was going to fold. Started in 1954, The Observer has consistently shown light on murky Texas politics. However, recently, the publication has run into economic headwinds. (from the Observer website: www.texasobserver.org ) “The Texas Democracy Foundation, the nonprofit parent of the Texas Observer, told its staff Monday that it is laying off employees—including journalists and editors—and ceasing publication on Friday, March 31, 2023. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/29/2161020/-The-Texas-Observer-Will-Remain-Open Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/