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Suds on Strike
As a mechanic at Molson Coors, John knows his job is dangerous. For the past nine years, the 38-year-old Kentucky native has worked in...
Caprock Cataclysm
The warmer weather this week couldn’t have come at a better time. The Dallas Cowboys are frozen in time. The Texas Lege is run...
The Great Voucher Scam
With more than 500 amendments, Texas’ constitution is at times vague to the point of incomprehensibility, but in its commitment to public education, it...
Pregnant With Death
At approximately 3 a.m. Sat., July 20, 1895, a terrifying explosion occurred two miles southeast of Mart, Texas, 20 miles east of Waco and...
Smells Like Corporate Spirit
Sometime in early October 1991, my best friend Jason and I sat perched on the padded vinyl bumper that bordered the edges of his...
Coining a Texas Heroine
The New York Times’ 2020 series of feature obituaries, “Overlooked,” was primarily devoted to women and “people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported” in...
Broken Dreams
Zenorah was barely one week old when doctors took her off life support. She exhaled her last breath in the arms of her grandmother.
“I...
Kiddie Table
When I think too long on contemporary grown-ups, I do not like what I see.
Something about it reminds of the final scene in Citizen...
Jump for Jump
The cowboy is holding a helmet in his hands, rubbing a thumb across the thin metal bars meant to protect his face should things...
Bloodsport
Cruelty is our watchword now. On our phones, we watch in real time as Palestinians are slaughtered with our money and weapons, enduring Israel’s...
