Postcards: Hook, Line and Sinker
by Ian Dille / Posted on | No CommentsOfficers from the Zapata County sheriff’s department, Border Patrol and Texas Parks & Wildlife told anglers, “We can’t help you once you cross into Mexico.”
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Goliad’s Passion Play: Historic Reenactors Remember the “Goliad Massacre”
by Robyn Ross / Posted on | 1 CommentFor 28 years, Texans have been coming to Goliad, in March, to die.
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Postcards: Life In a Colonia Called ‘The Ranch’
by Alex Hannaford / Posted on | 1 CommentCuevitas is one of several thousand colonias in South Texas—impoverished communities where many people live without proper sanitation, electricity or running water.
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Iron Hands Behind the Pine Curtain
by Saul Elbein / Posted on | 8 CommentsI watched him being loaded into the van. The pepper spray had not been washed off; his face was swollen and contorted, with long ropes of mucus hanging from his nostrils.
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Building a Better Block in Oak Cliff
by Robyn Ross / Posted on | 2 CommentsIn early 2010, Jason Roberts and his friend Amy Wallace Cowan were speculating about their Dallas neighborhood. What if, instead of empty, run-down buildings, the streets were lined with cafés and flower shops? What if people of all ages rode bikes here? What if Oak Cliff looked more like, you know, Paris?
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