by Eduardo de la Garza Brooks County, one of the poorest counties in Texas, sits little more than an hour away from the Mexican border. Southwest of Corpus Christi, Brooks County is home to Falfurrias, with a population just less than 4,800. Less than 10 percent of the county is considered farmable and much of the area is dry, brushy,…
by Eduardo de la Garza Buffalo Bayou moves slowly along, its waters joining with White Oak, Brays, Sims, and Greens Bayous before emptying into the Houston Ship Channel and further down into Galveston Bay. It’s been here for 18,000 years, long before the Allen brothers traveled south from New York. And as a living river, its health is just as…
by Eduardo de la Garza On March 17, Americans will dress in festive green clothes so as to allude pinching and go to pubs to drink green-dyed beer, because what better way to celebrate the feast day of a saint than debauchery? To be fair, even that feast day may be based more on allegory than truth. Patrick, or Pádraig,…