Texas

'I don't think Biden's ultimately going to spend $6 million in Texas,' senior campaign adviser Jason Miller told reporters last week on a press call. 'I think it would be great if he did. I'd welcome him to do it. Texas TV stations would love to have it.'    … [Read more...] about Biden’s 5-point July lead over Trump in Texas evaporates: President gains momentum in Texas and edges ahead by two points but the state still remains a toss-up, new poll shows

My second novel, The Cutting Season, begins with the discovery of the body of a young woman, left on the wrong side of a property line. She is a migrant worker, hired by a big agriculture firm to work in the sugarcane fields that abut the Belle Vie plantation. The plantation is based on a real place in Louisiana, which I went to for a wedding. It was one of the oddest experiences of my life. I burst into tears the second I stepped foot on that land and what it represented, me standing there in a fancy dress and high heels near a plaque with the names and costs of all the slaves that had been owned there. The bride and groom were an interracial couple. My husband and I are an interracial couple. I waited all night for someone to speak about where we were. How we had gathered on land that represented so much racial violence and pain, how we might remake the land with the power of love. But as the night went on, I realised that the couple had chosen the location simply for its beauty. And … [Read more...] about Attica Locke: why did my black ancestors never leave Texas? They knew land is power

The fugitives are suspects in multiple burglaries in Texas, and a Real County Sheriff's Office published a press release which said that the Leakey area "as been plagued by multiple burglaries, especially in storage facilities around the county." … [Read more...] about Manhunt for ‘armed & dangerous’ Texas fugitives who fled in stolen trailer after shooting Georgia deputy at traffic stop

Trump scraps his own voter fraud body Did millions vote illegally in the US? The man behind Trump's illegal vote claim Mason previously served nearly three years in prison for filing inflated returns on behalf of tax clients. … [Read more...] about Texas woman jailed for five years for ‘accidental’ voter fraud

And yet it is only with Randie’s characterisation that Locke’s nuanced portrayals falter. Randie behaves exactly as we expect her to – screaming and accusatory at some points, trembling and hysterical at others. If she fails to convince as the 21st-century career woman she’s described as, it is perhaps this stock figure quality that is responsible: she sometimes feels like a mere gesture, lost among the many greater truths that Locke renders in such subtle and beautiful ways. … [Read more...] about Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke review – racial tensions in small-town Texas