A section of the border fence in the Rio Grande Valley. Credit: Callie Richmond for The Texas Tribune Over the span of about a week, Texas received $459,000 in private donations for the state’s planned wall at the southern border, the … Read More
Greetings from Tyler, Once upon a time there was a hunger and thirst to know every detail and to understand every nuance on numerous fronts. Not anymore. Now it’s a matter of protecting one’s emotions and sensibilities from the mindlessness … Read More
Greetings from Tyler, Everybody’s supposed to feel a lot better, now that thousands of unaccompanied minors are flooding across the border. Apparently they’re given money (Bill O’Reilly said eleven hundred dollars) and allowed to travel wherever they see fit in … Read More
Texas Democrats warn that a crisis at the border could be weeks or even days away, the Houston Chronicle reports. The warnings come as the Biden administration moves to establish Ellis-Island-style rapid-processing hubs to release migrants into the U.S. within 72 hours. … Read More
8,800,000 Texans are still under boil water notices while 120,000 still have no water service at all. | Photo: Twitter/@NBCNews More than 30 percent of Texas residents, United States, are still without water service today, after the blackouts caused by … Read More
(CNN) After a devastating week for the Lone Star state, finally some relief. Temperatures Sunday will continue to warm, with most of the state expected to reach the 60s and 70s — much closer to the average temperatures residents expect during this … Read More
Tim Hennessy remembers a “collective groan” on Tuesday as the lights went out in his local grocery store in Texas. He and his wife quickly grabbed their last items and pulled up to a checkout line 20 carts deep. Around … Read More