Greg Abbott’s Bizarre Postflood Football Analogy
Shortly after University of Texas head football Coach Steve Sarkisian came to Texas, in 2021, a clip featuring one of his assistants went viral. The Longhorns had just dropped a 30–7 loss to Iowa St...
Flooding in the Hill Country Is a Centuries-Old Story
Deadly floods are far more common in Central Texas than we sometimes care to remember—or prepare ourselves for. Less than a month before last week’s tragic events in the Hill Country, slow-moving ...
What Camp La Junta Taught Me About Courage
In 1836, brothers Joseph and Nathaniel Kerr of Lake Providence, Louisiana, set off on horses to join the Texas Revolution. Joseph died fighting at the Alamo; Nathaniel was felled by an illness shortly...