Before the Perfect Game: The Little Giants Came Through Corpus Christi
Click on the image above for more on the Little Giants In August 1957, before they became world champions, before […]
The Rio Grande Valley, Texas, Early Sixties: Young and Mexican, a Musical Tour as Some of Us Knew It
Introduction More than a decade before Motown became a national symbol of Black music and Black-owned enterprise, Mexican-American musicians and
Politics: What are the latest on the coming election?
Here’s what stands out this morning, Monday, August 24, with new polling folded into the news rather than separated from
When Turner Helped Create a $95,000 Job, Houston Went Crazy. Whitmire Created a $127,000 Job. Why the Difference?
Houston has seen this movie before. A mayor knows someone. A city job appears. The salary is unusually high. The
Houston, how accurate are Flock cameras? They have been found to be as inaccurate as 71%.
Houston has embraced Flock Safety’s artificial-intelligence license-plate cameras as another tool for fighting crime. Police can search the system for
20% Jewish: a mystery to solve and two love stories as probabilities.
Meme had gone looking for an answer to a number. Almost twenty percent Jewish. The number sat there on the
The Frightened Governor: Greg Abbott Says He Isn’t Worried. His Calendar Says Otherwise.
Greg Abbott wants Texans to know that he is not worried. That is important, because lately he has been behaving
Trump refuses to release the Epstein files; Whitmire refuses to release the Chris Brown files.
The Mayor Says Chris Brown Worked. The Controller Says: Show Me. Houston Mayor John Whitmire says his administration is serious
San Antonio, Texas, early sixties, young and Mexican, a musical tour as some of us knew it.
San Antonio, Texas, Early Sixties: Young, Mexican, and TikTok Before TikTok Corpus Christi had its jukeboxes, radio stations, dances, and
At age 50, he packed up and moved the family across the river. Why? Ancieto Barrera
A factionalized family history based on the Barrera records, Starr County land records, and the history of the Garza War.
Texas Solves Age Discrimination: Grandma, Get in Line – 26th Amendment
A federal appeals court has presented Texas Republicans with the sort of constitutional problem nobody in Austin was asking for:
The Senate Map Democrats Were Not Supposed to Have
For most of this election cycle, the conventional wisdom was simple: Democrats might win the House, but the Senate was
The Garza War: The Forgotten Tejano Rebellion Along the Rio Grande
For Savannah Bernal and Jorge Barrera Jr., who keep reading these old South Texas stories and giving me a reason
Starr County 1860 Census
With the help of ChatGPT and hours of work, we created the 1860 census for Starr County, Texas. If you
Camp Ringgold, Rio Grande City, the fort that Texas forgot.
Digital Edition My parents are from Starr County, and we visited our grandparents, our uncles, and our cousins, but I
Nate Silver Gives James Talarico a 2-to-1 Chance of Winning Texas
Nate Silver is one of America’s best-known election forecasters. A statistician and the founder of FiveThirtyEight, he became nationally known
The Glove That Can Kill – on the hands of ICE Agents
They call it a “de-escalation device.” One expert compared the pain to a bee sting. That sounds almost harmless. Until
