Features

• 
  Houston Turns Back to Tap Water

  That stuff flowing from the faucet is safe, cheap and environmental

  By Chris Vogel and Lee Klein

  Thursday, August 14

  Erica Campbell doesn't want to die from drinking tap water. She doesn't trust Houston's public water system, and as a homeopathic doctor, she... More >>
• 
  No Honest Players Among Human Smugglers

  Illegal immigrants are subject to pain and death at the hands of their "rescuers" if they don't pay up in full

  By Chris Vogel

  Thursday, August 07

  Bound and gagged, Elmer Nuñez-­Rodriguez watched helplessly as a stocky, dark-haired man charged toward him with a phone in one hand... More >>
• 
  Texas Woman Fights Abuse at the State's Schools for the Mentally Retarded

  Her son was beaten up by an angry caregiver at Denton State School

  By Jesse Hyde

  Thursday, July 31

  Farhat Chishty pushes her son's wheelchair into the shade of an oak tree and sits down with a sigh. It's a calm spring morning at Denton State... More >>
• 
  Homeland Security Won't Let a Former IRA Man Out of Prison

  After living in the U.S. for 25 years, Pól Brennan is now stuck on the Texas-Mexico border

  By John Nova Lomax

  Thursday, July 24

  In six hours this past January, all the good that Pól Brennan had ever done came unraveled. The 56-year-old Belfast-born carpenter and... More >>
• 
  What Mainstream Publishers Don't Want You to Know About Door-to-Door Magazine Sales

  That kid at your door with a magazine order form will tell you a story -- part sad, part hopeful. The truth will be infinitely worse than you can imagine.

  By Craig Malisow

  Thursday, July 17

  In the Ramada Inn, across I-10 from Ikea, dozens of young sales agents spill out of vans and head for the first-floor conference room. They're in... More >>