The American Civil War along the Texas Border.
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On April 23, Corpus Christi was staring at a water crisis. The city’s reservoirs had fallen to historic lows. Officials were discussing increasingly severe restrictions, higher charges for excessive use,
Even Red America has fallen out of love with Trump.
Ladies and gentlemen of the Democratic Party, come on over. I have something I think you are going to like. No, it is not another consultant. You already own enough
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Texas Democrats know how to talk about taxes when the subject is Republicans giving tax breaks to billionaires and corporations. They know how to complain about loopholes. They know how
A Small Solar Panel Could Help Working Families Cut Their Electric Bills. So why is it still so hard to use?
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Texas State Taxes a $12,000 Burden on a Family of Four
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says Texans need tax relief. He says families are being squeezed by the cost of living, and he has made lowering taxes one of the centerpieces
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Click on the image above for more on the Little Giants In August 1957, before they became world champions, before Ángel Macías threw the most famous game in Little League
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 businessmen in the Rio Grande Valley had already built much
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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
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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
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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
The Frightened Governor: Greg Abbott Says He Isn’t Worried. His Calendar Says Otherwise.
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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 about rooting out waste at City Hall. City Controller Chris
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At age 50, he packed up and moved the family across the river. Why? Ancieto Barrera
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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
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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 to keep digging. Somebody mentioned the Garza War to me.
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 never realized we had such a historic fort in Rio