Sort ByFilter ByLocationsTypeView ResultsFiltersLaid-off waitresses, bartenders, and truck drivers. Oil workers, welders, elementary school kids, and the entire staff of a traveling carnival. These are just a few of the Texans in the 150 to 350 cars that line up around the parking lot of the West Texas Food Bank in Odessa on any given day. Most have never had to get food assistance before—in April, 74 percent were first-timers, says Libby Campbell, the food bank’s executive director.“This isn’t generational poverty,” Campbell says of those in the long lines. “These are people who lost their...…Sort ByFilter ByLocationsTypeView ResultsFiltersLaid-off waitresses, bartenders, and truck drivers. Oil workers, welders, elementary school kids, and the entire staff of a traveling carnival. These are just a few of the Texans in the 150 to 350 cars that line up around the parking lot of the West Texas Food Bank in Odessa on any given day. Most have never had to get food assistance before—in April, 74 percent were first-timers, says Libby Campbell, the food bank’s executive director.“This isn’t generational poverty,” Campbell says of those in the long lines. “These are people who lost their...WW…

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Sort ByFilter ByLocationsTypeView ResultsFiltersOn December 7, 1982, a convicted murderer named Charlie Brooks was killed at the Huntsville Unit in East Texas. It was Texas’s first execution in eighteen years—the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled the practice unconstitutional a decade earlier—and the nation’s first by lethal injection, a new method that was supposed to be less cruel than the electric chair. Watching in the witness room was Texas Monthly reporter Dick Reavis. As Maurice Chammah recounts in (Crown), his searing new history of the death penalty, Reavis made several trips to...…Sort ByFilter ByLocationsTypeView ResultsFiltersOn December 7, 1982, a convicted murderer named Charlie Brooks was killed at the Huntsville Unit in East Texas. It was Texas’s first execution in eighteen years—the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled the practice unconstitutional a decade earlier—and the nation’s first by lethal injection, a new method that was supposed to be less cruel than the electric chair. Watching in the witness room was Texas Monthly reporter Dick Reavis. As Maurice Chammah recounts in (Crown), his searing new history of the death penalty, Reavis made several trips to...WW…

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