Independent journalist covering religion, culture, prison tourism and weird stuff. @TexasMonthly, @wpmagazine, @TexasObserver, @TexasHighways, @StrangersGuide
Joined December 2012
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Robyn Ross retweeted
18 Dec 2023
With a deadline for departure looming, about a quarter of the congregations in the United Methodist Church, the country's largest mainline denomination, have departed. Come for the church politics, stay for Wesley the Methodist bulldog. Gift link: nytimes.com/2023/12/18/us/th…
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Robyn Ross retweeted
5 Oct 2023
Lunch counter protests helped desegregate Texas in the 1960s. Student activists were spit on, cursed at, and arrested, but persevered. @robynrossatx revisits this history, on display at a perhaps surprising place: The @drpeppermuseum in Waco texasmonthly.com/being-texan…
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Robyn Ross retweeted
8 Sep 2023
Our roundup features insightful things to read or listen to from @NathanEmpsall, @StraightWhiteJC, @ClaireGiangrave, @TheArtist_MBS, @Forum_18, @grahamtoday, @RobynRossATX, @jnjcasper, @dcoxpolls, and more! (7/7) publicwitness.wordandway.org…
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Robyn Ross retweeted
19 Jul 2023
Remember the Big Switch? If you were able to switch places with the TCU chancellor for one day while in college, drop us a reply. You might be contacted for information for a story.
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Robyn Ross retweeted
21 Jun 2023
Writer @RobynRossATX explores a trio of East Texas parks that are located one to two hours southeast of Dallas.
Each offers peaceful hikes that introduce visitors to the beauty of the area's transitional landscape. texashighways.com/travel-new…
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Robyn Ross retweeted
10 May 2023
Writer @RobynRossATX has some criteria when she goes hiking with her dog.
The trail must be at least four miles long ✅
There has to be a bathroom ✅
The trail must be wide enough to spot snakes ✅
The Lake Bastrop Trailway checked all those boxes. texashighways.com/travel-new…
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Robyn Ross retweeted
29 Mar 2023
WE DID IT! The Texas Observer will remain open!
Our board voted to rescind both layoffs and the closure. We'll have more news soon, but we believe this is the start of a very positive transformation—and you were made it possible! #TexasNeedsAnObserver! texasobserver.org/texas-obse…
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Robyn Ross retweeted
28 Mar 2023
this Texas Observer crowdfunding campaign is moving so quickly that I had to update the numbers three times while I was writing a story about it:
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Robyn Ross retweeted
28 Mar 2023
Saving the Observer is not about nostalgia. That National Magazine Award on the bookshelf (not to mention the Emmy) was not there when Molly was editor, wonderful though she was. The Observer's best days are ahead, not behind. Pitch in if you can!
28 Mar 2023
Help Save the Texas Observer & Fight Staff Layoffs
gofund.me/28b7c542
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Robyn Ross retweeted
27 Mar 2023
The reports of the death of the @TexasObserver were premature. We'd like to keep providing cutting edge investigations on #womenshealthcare #environment, #criminaljustice, #politics #corruption & all things #Texas. Fight proposed layoffs. Contribute now. gofundme.com/f/laid-off-texa…
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Robyn Ross retweeted
27 Mar 2023
UPDATE: the Texas Observer editorial team has sent a formal proposal to the board that oversees the organization. It outlines a number of steps to stave off the impending layoffs and closure of the Observer.
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Robyn Ross retweeted
27 Mar 2023
UPDATE: the death of the Texas Observer may have been exaggerated as editorial staff formulate a counter proposal to the executive board.
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27 Mar 2023
Texas Observer editorial staff have offered a counter proposal: Have the board members who voted for closure resign while top editors will work voluntarily and be given the chance to try to raise funds. They've also asked for a staffer to be added to the board as a voting member.
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Robyn Ross retweeted
23 Feb 2023
Did you know that the founder of @HEB was a woman? Florence Butt opened the first store after her husband became too ill to work. @RobynRossATX tells her story: texasmonthly.com/being-texan…
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Robyn Ross retweeted
7 Sep 2022
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Robyn Ross retweeted
29 Aug 2022
Gillespie County and Fredericksburg, Texas made national news recently after the entire elections staff there quit. I found out there’s more: it began with something in the water and before the Big Lie. My latest for @VotebeatUS/@TexasTribune texas.votebeat.org/2022/8/29…
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Robyn Ross retweeted
5 Aug 2022
Through Houston-based nonprofit Hives for Heroes, veterans trade their uniforms for bee suits, work to save pollinators, and learn mindfulness in the process. trib.al/M9hrQQQ
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Robyn Ross retweeted
3 Aug 2022
This week's @BW issue is dedicated to all the ways this country has economically and politically disenfranchised women. I wrote the cover essay about what so many of us are feeling these days. I hope you like it. bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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Robyn Ross retweeted
2 Jun 2022
Here is a thing I wrote about my town. It echoes things that some here are saying quietly, in private conversations, away from the cameras. texasmonthly.com/opinion/uva…
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Robyn Ross retweeted
8 Feb 2022
We can all have one "they named the baby after the ICU doctor that saved their lives" story, as a treat.
8 Feb 2022
Like a lot of pregnant women, Diana Crouch thought the COVID vaccine was too risky, and assumed if she got the virus, she would be fine.
But that couldn't be further from the truth, as Crouch discovered when she spent months on a ventilator.
texastribune.org/2022/02/08/…
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Robyn Ross retweeted
24 Jan 2022
The governor’s office blamed county officials for “erroneously interpreting” SB1 & accused them of spreading misinformation.
But 100s of applications are being rejected because voters appear unaware of the rule changes & aren’t filling out the new ID requirements at all. #txlege
24 Jan 2022
New: As the Texas primary election approaches, voters and local election officials struggle to decipher the new requirements for mail-in ballot applications enacted by state Republican lawmakers. bit.ly/3KC1AUm
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