Introduction More than a decade before Motown became a national symbol of Black music and Black-owned enterprise, Mexican-American musicians and businessmen in the Rio Grande Valley had already built much
Here’s what stands out this morning, Monday, August 24, with new polling folded into the news rather than separated from it. The biggest Texas development is that the national press
Houston has seen this movie before. A mayor knows someone. A city job appears. The salary is unusually high. The position was not handled like an ordinary city job. Reporters
Houston has embraced Flock Safety’s artificial-intelligence license-plate cameras as another tool for fighting crime. Police can search the system for vehicles associated with suspects, stolen cars, and criminal investigations. The
Meme had gone looking for an answer to a number. Almost twenty percent Jewish. The number sat there on the ancestry report as if it required no explanation. But to
Greg Abbott wants Texans to know that he is not worried. That is important, because lately he has been behaving like a man with a smoke detector going off in
The Mayor Says Chris Brown Worked. The Controller Says: Show Me. Houston Mayor John Whitmire says his administration is serious about rooting out waste at City Hall. City Controller Chris
San Antonio, Texas, Early Sixties: Young, Mexican, and TikTok Before TikTok Corpus Christi had its jukeboxes, radio stations, dances, and young Mexican Americans listening to the same new music that
A factionalized family history based on the Barrera records, Starr County land records, and the history of the Garza War. The river was not very wide. That was the strange
A federal appeals court has presented Texas Republicans with the sort of constitutional problem nobody in Austin was asking for: They may eventually have to treat younger voters the same
For most of this election cycle, the conventional wisdom was simple: Democrats might win the House, but the Senate was probably beyond their reach. That conventional wisdom is beginning to
For Savannah Bernal and Jorge Barrera Jr., who keep reading these old South Texas stories and giving me a reason to keep digging. Somebody mentioned the Garza War to me.
Digital Edition My parents are from Starr County, and we visited our grandparents, our uncles, and our cousins, but I never realized we had such a historic fort in Rio
Nate Silver is one of America’s best-known election forecasters. A statistician and the founder of FiveThirtyEight, he became nationally known after correctly predicting 49 of 50 states in the 2008
They call it a “de-escalation device.” One expert compared the pain to a bee sting. That sounds almost harmless. Until you learn that a Kentucky man was shocked with one
Whether it is Donald Trump, Greg Abbott, or John Whitmire, the cycle of taking money from the poor to hand it to the rich never stops. NRG Energy’s new Greens
Thumbs down: What will County Judge Linda Hidalgo do once she finishes her time in office at the end of this year? Substack author, for one. She made her first big
Most Texans probably know who Dan Patrick is. Vikki Goodwin is another matter. In the latest Texas A&M Bush School/ReconMR poll, Goodwin led Patrick 48% to 46% among likely voters.
The Seats Keep Falling One election can be dismissed as a fluke. Thirty Republican state legislative seats changing hands since Donald Trump returned to office begins to look like something
I will be taking a short trip to Corpus, but this is the first of at least four musical tours of what the music was like for us old Tejanos.
