The Future of News, According to Meme’s Crystal Ball
I have put on my Hawaiian shirt, pulled up a chair, and consulted the crystal ball. The future of news looks considerably different from the newspaper business I grew up
Get Off Your Butt. Opportunity Is Not Coming to Your Door.
I have had enough of the pity parties for people who insist there is no opportunity while refusing to consider going where opportunity might be. A town can lose jobs.
La Raza – What it meant and means to me
When I was studying at Oklahoma State, I met numerous Indigenous people. They would often ask me what tribe I belonged to. I had no idea, what tribe I belonged
Too many humans or not enough?
When I was younger, we were warned that population growth might destroy us. There were too many people, we were told, and the planet could not support them all. People
How much did gasoline cost when you were born?
How Much Did Gas Cost the Year You Were Born? Enter your birth year and see the average price of a gallon of gasoline in the United States that year.
Mission Accomplished: AI Creates the Perfect Civilization
Newsweek asked its AI and other AIs from various companies if AI would eliminate Humans within 10 years; all of them said yes, but the percentage of them doing so
The Story of Salt Caverns: Everything You Did Not Want to Know
I had wondered about salt domes before, but apparently not enough to actually investigate them. Then I discovered Santiago, and one question led to another. How do we store hundreds
Puerto Rico Was the Homeland. New York Was the Borderland.
Something extraordinary happened in New York after World War II. Hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans left the island and came north. They brought Spanish, family, food, politics, and music.
A Small Solar Panel Could Help Working Families Cut Their Electric Bills. So why is it still so hard to use?
A few months ago I wrote about Bright Saver, a nonprofit selling small plug-in solar systems designed for ordinary people. The idea is almost embarrassingly simple. You put a solar
Brown & Proud – wanting to be a Marine
I know how to take tests. I have taken hundreds of them during my lifetime. I know when I have done well, and I know when I have walked out
Dead or in Prison by Eighteen
Recuerdos de un Chicano When I was sixteen, I got a traffic ticket. I thought the ticket was wrong, so I did something I suppose was already characteristic of me.
The US went to war for land and slaves
You won’t find it in our history books, but one reason—perhaps one of the major reasons—the United States invaded Mexico may have been slavery. Mexico had abolished slavery, and thousands
A Mexican Will Never Be President
Recuerdos de un Chicano When I was a boy, a teacher asked the class a question adults often ask children. What do you want to be when you grow up?
Making Ourselves White by Keeping Our Grass Green
When Corpus Christi announced that it was easing its water restrictions, some Corpus natives began talking about what the change would mean. The first thing several people mentioned was the
Meme and Santiago Have a Solution to Many Problems Confronting Texas
Texas has a strange way of solving problems. One city loses water by the billions of gallons. Another city worries about running out of water. Oil and gas companies need
The Men on the Roof Could Not Afford to Come Down
July 29, 2026 I stepped outside for only a few minutes this afternoon. The heat struck immediately. It was not merely hot. Houston’s humidity made the air feel heavy, as
Houston May Be Pouring Tomorrow’s Fortune Down the Drain
Imagine Houston Residents as rich as Saudi Arabia, not because there is oil underneath us but because someone at City Hall saw a future fortune in water. Texas built pipelines
THE MYSTERY OF HOUSTON’S DISAPPEARING RED DOTS
Houston’s reported 32 billion gallons of annual water loss is enough water to supply roughly 275,000 to 290,000 American households for an entire year. Using the EPA estimate of 82