“The most warlike nation in the history of the world.”
In 77 Years, I Have Seen Only Four Years Without an American Military Operation Abroad If you were born after 1979, you have never seen one. A meme quoting Jimmy
The Reluctant Husband: Trump and Paxton
Till the Polls Do Us Part Donald Trump chose Ken Paxton. He could have stayed with John Cornyn, the familiar, dependable Republican. Instead, Trump endorsed Paxton and helped push him
Lies are Cheap, and Trump sold us a whopper!
Donald Trump told voters he would cut energy prices in half within 12 months. He repeatedly bragged about gasoline at $1.89 a gallon, and as recently as January proclaimed, “Now
1940 Fronton, Texas census
1940 Fronton Census Searchable transcription of the 1940 census records in the Fronton project. Search works across every displayed field. Click a column heading to sort. Show 102550100All entries Search:
The feisty young Latina that white MAGAs loved to hate: Lina Hidalgo
Why Did So Many People Hate Lina Hidalgo? A young Anglo man who is aggressive and confrontational may get called ambitious, tough, or a disruptor. A young Latina woman behaving
Chronicle taking credit for what Lina Hidalgo said over a year ago.
Times change, but newspapers don’t change with the times. It makes one wonder if they still think Latinos/Latinas are not as smart as white people. There is something missing from
Who Do We Blame: Abbott, Who Created the Problem, or Trump, Who Took Advantage of It?
This is no longer some Medicaid accounting argument between bureaucrats in Austin and Washington. Houston-area hospitals could lose as much as $1.4 billion next year if the dispute is not
Texas Data Centers: Follow the Water. Then Follow the Money.
Texas spent years welcoming data centers with open arms. They brought promises of billions of dollars in investment, artificial intelligence, construction, and a new technology boom. Gov. Greg Abbott was
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
American history they don’t want you to read: the real barbarians: Mier
We Found the Invaders: The Real Barbarians Who Crossed the Rio Grande I started looking backward because I wanted to know where my family came from. The farther I went,
Whitmire Wants to Give Away the Goose for Eggs Houston Already Owns
Houston Mayor John Whitmire has found a way to make $50 million sound like free money. The problem is that a large part of the money already belongs to Houston,
Unable to solve Houston’s problems, Whitmire turns to AI for advice.
What John Whitmire Is Doing to Houston John Whitmire became mayor promising to fix Houston’s problems. But some of the biggest things his administration has done look less like fixing
Thinning the herd, making room for AI. Behind the sudden illnesses and deaths.
Are Trump and the Republicans trying to thin the herd to make room for AI? That is a harsh question. But before dismissing it as outrageous, look at what is
El Paso, Early Sixties: Young, Mexican, and Just Across the River
Twenty years earlier, young Mexican-American men from El Paso had marched off to war with Company E of the 141st Infantry. Many came from Segundo Barrio and the neighborhoods near
Click2 Houston, inviting hate into its house.
Why Is Channel 2 Still Giving Hate a Comment Section? Houston’s major television stations all compete for the same thing: viewers, clicks, and attention. But one thing separates KPRC Channel
While the media no longer uses the words, they still print them and spread hate.
Newspapers Have Always Helped Decide Who the Heroes Are Newspapers like to describe themselves as witnesses to history. Sometimes they are. But newspapers have also helped create history by deciding
The Skinning War: When Being Mexican Was Enough for Them to Kill You
I started reading a new book, and when it mentioned the Skinning War, I was surprised to find a war I hadn’t heard of, especially since it was in South
Houston, Your Share of Mass Deportation: About $3,683 per taxpayer
Washington likes big numbers because big numbers are difficult to feel. Congress can spend $100 billion here and $200 billion there, and after a while the numbers become background noise.
You can sense it in their message; thus, the communists are coming
Republicans appear to have discovered that the surest sign of a healthy democracy is spending every election warning that democracy will end if they lose. The sirens are already sounding.
Republicans May Have Misread South Texas
Immigrants built this country. Republicans looked at the 2024 election returns from South Texas and thought they had discovered something permanent: Latino voters were becoming Republicans. Trump had made enormous