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, […]
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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:
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
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
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
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
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
Greg Abbott, “Socialism for Corporations”
For years, Texas told some of the richest companies in the world to come on down. Bring your data centers.
My Tia Juanita Garcia de la Cruz and her remarkable life
The Things They Refused to Leave Behind To my cousins, this is a little of what I have learned about
We Paid for the Cameras Watching Us. Now the Politicians Are Worried.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is suddenly worried about Flock cameras. He should be. DeSantis, hardly a politician normally accused of
Rosita Barrera: The Girl From Fronton Who Went to College
. . When we began looking closely at the 1940 census for Fronton, Texas, one thing stood out immediately: how
