The article presents a profile of the Texas Association for Literacy Education (TALE) in San Antonio. Information on how the organization got started is provided. Also highlighted is TALE's ...
” Ross says. “The Black community has for years been afraid of banking with traditional institutions. A lot of them live inbanking desertswhere there are no banks, which is also why you have credit unions, check-cashing places, and payday...
Alaska is the only state larger than Texas, suggesting that it could be Alaska. However, in "Fear of Flying", when offered free air travel to any US State, the Simpsons are told "except Alaska and Hawaii. The freak states." It could also be possible that Springfield is located in a...
Most of us know something about the weird and somewhat tragic tale of the Dionne quintuplets, raised from infancy before the public gaze and exploited to sell everything from dolls and books to soap and toothpaste. When E.B. White made this brief mention in his “Notes and Comment,” the...
The group includes delegates from California, Texas, Florida, Washington, Michigan, North Carolina, South Carolina and several other states. Lead Art: The United Center, the site of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, is...
In a 2000 article for Texas Monthly (“A Woman of Independent Means”), Don Graham wrote that “no other book in Texas literature is quite like Gertrude Beasley’s little-known memoir, My First Thirty Years. For one thing, it was published in Paris in 1925 by the avant-garde press Cont...
Based on the network’s 2010 original movie, the Sony TV-produced series stars Hewitt as Riley, a Texas housewife who, after being deserted by her husband, ends up running a massage parlor called The Rub, which offers more than one kind of rub, if you know what I mean. The series ...
the last word on why GOP purely-redistricting-related House seat gains are likely to be limited to the single digits for 2012: thanks to their 2010 overperformance, they’re thoroughly maxed out in the big four prizes where they have total control (Texas, Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania)....
Thanks to its stone exterior, it was able to house hundreds of survivors of the great hurricane of 1900. It was purchased by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Galveston in 1923 and became home to the Bishop, hence its name. Also in Texas: The Huntsville hom...
Texas: Cinco Ranch Sean Pavone // Shutterstock Texas: Cinco Ranch - Population: 18,399 - Location: Suburb of Houston, TX - National rank: 37 Planned communities around major Texas cities like Dallas and Houston are common; and, like many of them, Cinco Ranch has an abundance of pools, te...