Jef Rouner
Jef Rouner is an award-winning freelance journalist, the author of The Rook Circle, and a member of The Black Math Experiment. He lives in Houston where he spends most of his time investigating corruption and strange happenings. Jef has written for Houston Press, Free Press Houston, and Houston Chronicle.
Milton is the Climate Change Bill Coming Due
As Hurricane Milton buries the needle on our current hurricane severity scale, no exchange on the internet better sums up the way we got...
Allred Outraises Cruz, Closes Polling Gap
The race for Texas Senate is rapidly becoming one of the closest in the nation. Not only is Colin Allred closing in on Ted...
Biden Launches Plan To Reconnect Texas To National Grid
Texas moved one step closer to electric grid reliability this week as the Biden-Harris Administration announced plans to reconnect parts of the Texas grid...
The Texas Case That Could Change Reproductive Choice Forever
A Texas “wrongful death” case could radically alter the concept of reproductive choice if it makes its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, who...
2024 Presidential Election Impact on Texas: Medicaid
This is a multipart series on the different ways the 2024 Presidential Election is likely to affect Texas.
Medicaid is the federal government health insurance...
Texas’s Wealthiest Republican Donors Aren’t on Philanthropist List
The Chronicle of Philanthropy released its annual list of people who gave the most to charitable foundations this week. Missing from the list? Most...
Conservatives Hope Llano County Book Ban Case Will Open Up Chances to Censor Libraries
One of the most important First Amendment cases in America is happening in Texas right now. At oral arguments before the 5th Circuit Court...
Tarrant County and the New Politicization of Property Tax Appraisals
In 2022, Texas had the seventh-highest effective property tax rate in the nation, trailing behind New Jersey, Illinois, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New...
2024 Presidential Election Impact on Texas: Abortion
This is a multipart series on the different ways the 2024 Presidential Election is likely to affect Texas.
Abortion is all but banned in Texas,...
The Republican War on Voting in Texas
Under the guise of “election integrity,” Texas Republican leadership has systematically attacked voting access and turnout in the state.
It bears repeating: there was no...
