{"id":147424,"date":"2025-05-29T16:54:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T16:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=147424"},"modified":"2025-05-29T16:54:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T16:54:41","slug":"ronnie-dugger-crusading-texas-journalist-dies-at-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=147424","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ronnie Dugger, Crusading Texas Journalist, Dies at 95&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/05\/27\/business\/media\/ronnie-dugger-dead.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NY Times<\/a>: &#8220;Ronnie Dugger, the crusading editor of a small but influential Texas journal who challenged presidents, corporations and America\u2019s privileged classes to face their responsibility for racism, poverty and the perils of nuclear war, died on Tuesday at an assisted living facility in Austin, Texas. He was 95.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">His daughter, Celia Dugger, the health and science editor of The New York Times, said the cause was complications of Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Inspired by Thomas Paine\u2019s treatises on independence and human rights, Mr. Dugger was the founding editor, the publisher and an owner of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasobserver.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Texas Observer,<\/a>\u00a0a widely respected publication, based in Austin, that with few resources and a tiny staff took on powerful interests, exposed injustices with investigative reports and offered an urbane mix of political dissent, narrative storytelling and cultural criticism.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times: &#8220;Ronnie Dugger, the crusading editor of a small but influential Texas journal who challenged presidents, corporations and America\u2019s privileged classes to face their responsibility for racism, poverty and the perils of nuclear war, died on Tuesday at an assisted living facility in Austin, Texas. He was 95. His daughter, Celia Dugger, the health&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147425,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147424\/revisions\/147425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}