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Texas is success and Illinois is failure | Da Techguy's (no longer backup) Blog

Texas is success and Illinois is failure | Da Techguy's (no longer backup) Blog John Ruberry (Marathon Pundit) made a recent visit to Texas which inspired a comparison unfavorable to his home state of Illinois. "The Land of Lincoln had...

Posted by Michael Bates on May 5, 2022 8:47 AM

Texplainer: Why does Texas have its own power grid? | kvue.com

Texplainer: Why does Texas have its own power grid? | kvue.com "The separation of the Texas grid from the rest of the country has its origins in the evolution of electric utilities early last century. In the decades after Thomas...

Posted by Michael Bates on February 21, 2021 9:23 AM

Baseball, BBQ, and Dead Ponies--A History of Fat Men's Clubs in Texas

Baseball, BBQ, and Dead Ponies--A History of Fat Men's Clubs in Texas "In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries definitions of and attitudes about fat bodies were remarkably different than they are now. What qualified a man for a fraternal...

Posted by Michael Bates on March 21, 2020 12:26 AM

A Farewell to Dairy Queens - Texas Monthly

A Farewell to Dairy Queens - Texas Monthly "The old saying that every Texas town has a Dairy Queen is no longer true for many communities, especially the agricultural hamlets of the Panhandle, which have been disproportionately affected by a...

Posted by Michael Bates on November 26, 2019 10:35 AM

Starr County woman arrested for illegally voting using dead person's identity | WOAI

Starr County woman arrested for illegally voting using dead person's identity | WOAI "A Starr County woman has been arrested for illegally voting using a dead person's identity in 2016. "According to a release by the Texas Attorney General's Office,...

Posted by Michael Bates on February 1, 2019 4:52 PM

The Last Gasps of Texas German | VICE | United States

The Last Gasps of Texas German | VICE | United States In the late 19th century, Texas welcomed large numbers of immigrants from Germany and other countries in central Europe. Thousands of miles from the homeland, Texas Germans evolved their...

Posted by Michael Bates on October 2, 2015 4:30 PM

BBC News - German dialect in Texas is one of a kind, and dying out

BBC News - German dialect in Texas is one of a kind, and dying out These are the roots from which my father-in-law sprang. Youngest speakers are in their 60s, the last generation that grew up with German spoken at...

Posted by Michael Bates on May 18, 2013 2:42 AM