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by Brewing America | Feb 5, 2021 | All, Business, Gary Elkins, Henry Cuellar, Ken Paxton, Law, Payday lenders, Politics, Roger Williams | 0 |
Three Texas congressmen were among those who, last April, urged that taxpayer-funded subsidies be granted to the purveyors of payday and car-title loans, which can carry effective annual interest rates of 500 percent or more and...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Dec 15, 2020 | All, Andrew Oldham, Don Willett, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, James Ho, Law, News, Politics | 0 |
Donald Trump didn’t save the coal industry, reindustrialize the Midwest, eliminate the trade deficit with China, or finish the wall along our southern border, much less make Mexico pay for it. But there was one campaign promise...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jan 14, 2020 | All, Boomtown, Business, Energy, Environment, Law, The Culture | 0 |
In our second of two episodes focusing on sex work in the Permian Basin, guest host Susan Elizabeth Shepard returns to speak with advocates and law enforcement who work directly with both sex trafficking victims and those who...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Oct 1, 2019 | All, Amber Gruyger, Botham Jean, Criminal Justice, Dallas police, Law, News, Politics | 0 |
Botham Shem Jean’s murder by off-duty police officer Amber Guyger captivated Texas, and the nation. So has Guyger’s trial, which kicked off in Dallas on September 23 and ended today with the jury finding Guyger guilty of murder,...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Aug 20, 2019 | All, Donald Trump, family separation, Immigration, jeff sessions, Law, zero tolerance | 0 |
Last May, a Honduran family of four that was fleeing violence in that country crossed illegally into the United States in the McAllen area and was arrested by U.S. Border Patrol agents. What the family didn’t realize was that...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Aug 18, 2019 | All, Criminal Justice, Law, Longform, Longreads | 0 |
It was going to be his last shift at the Velvet Lounge, and all Marvin Wilford felt was relief. It was November 11, 2017—Veterans Day—and as he got dressed for work, Wilford put on his scarlet-colored Marine Corps cap. The...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Aug 11, 2019 | All, Dennis Bonnen, Law, michael quinn sullivan, News, Politics, texas legislature | 0 |
As far as speaker scandals go, L’affaire de Dennis Bonnen is missing some of the luster of past episodes. The controversy lacks the lurid appeal of that time in the nineties when Speaker Gib Lewis took a lobby-funded trip to a...
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