E ating dinner is like playing golf or drinking wine. You can do it alone, but it’s a lot more fun with other people. And the communal nature of food is revealing. The kind of food we eat, how we eat it, where we eat it and who we eat it with tells a lot about history and culture. Before the 20th ce...

Flasher signals A troubling trend has developed among Texas drivers — driving with emergency flashers on, particularly in the rain. I can’t figure out how or why someone thought this was a good idea. It’s a very bad idea for a number of reasons. Emergency flashers are intended to call attention to a...

The number of people still missing in the July 4 Kerr County flood dropped to two after another body was recovered last week, the Austin American-Statesman reported. The two still missing are a child and an adult who were at Camp Mystic, where at least 27 campers and counselors died. The death toll ...

Gov. Greg Abbott said late last week that the statewide death toll from the catastrophic flooding in the Hill Country stands at 135, and the number of...

T exas women voted for the first time on July 27, 1918 — 107 years ago. This was before ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitut...

In the wake of a natural disaster, the instinct to clean up, rebuild and move forward is entirely natural, jumping right in, eager to restore some sen...