'I would always call the Observer, because I knew them. … I would call them, totally indignant and enraged by what was happening that week in the Capitol, and I’d be like, “You guys need to get over here and write about this.”
'I think they got so tired of me calling that they said, “Well, why don’t you just come and work here?” I took like a $10,000 pay cut and went back to journalism.'
Observing the Borderlands
https://www.texasobserver.org/observing-the-borderlands/