Edgar Sandoval 👓📝

I was there when the crowd went wild when the three Gámez-Cuéllar brothers and their father took the stage. Two months ago, the musicians were being held in federal immigration detention centers. Now, they were opening for @KaceyMusgraves nytimes.com/2026/05/03/us/… via @NYTimes

NEW: More than half the U.S. is in drought. But few places are dealing with the kind of crisis facing Corpus Christi, Tex., which could see water demand outstrip supply w/in a year. One official told me: "This is actually the canary in the coal mine. 🎁: nytimes.com/2026/05/13/us/…

It was @CouncilmanJalen , a gay City Council member, who helped devise a workaround: paint rainbows on sidewalks instead, in the Pride Cultural Heritage District that attracts many L.G.B.T.Q. people. Sidewalks are not under the jurisdiction of the state. nytimes.com/2026/05/12/us/…

Breaking: Dr. Stern said that one of the victims was a 29-year-old woman from Mexico and that she died from hyperthermia, or overheating. A cause of death has not been determined for the men, but Dr. Stern suspects they died in similar circumstances. nytimes.com/2026/05/11/us/…

I was there when the crowd went wild when the three Gámez-Cuéllar brothers and their father took the stage. Two months ago, the musicians were being held in federal immigration detention centers. Now, they were opening for @KaceyMusgraves nytimes.com/2026/05/03/us/… via @NYTimes

HUGE congratulations to @FreshParsley who just won a Pulitzer for his first-person account in @TexasMonthly of being swept by the July 4th floods. texasmonthly.com/press-room/sen…

“We went from being in such a dark place to opening a show for one of country’s biggest stars." Read @edjsandoval's dispatch from Gruene Hall, where last night a family of mariachi performers, just recently in ICE detention, opened for Kasey Musgraves. nytimes.com/2026/05/03/us/…

The story is out! The mariachi kids perform the opening number for @KaceyMusgraves @nytimes (🎁 link) nytimes.com/2026/05/03/us/…

McAllen mariachi boy detained by ICE about to go on stage with @KaceyMusgraves

The story is out! The kids and their father received thunderous applause the moment they took the stage. @nytimes nytimes.com/2026/05/03/us/…

.@KaceyMusgraves

In today’s print version of @nytimes Olivia Cruz hopped carefully off a bus in an upscale San Antonio enclave framed by oak-lined streets. On a recent day in April, Ms. Cruz brushed off a leg injury with the help of a new cane.. (edited by @fernalfonso ) nytimes.com/2026/04/29/us/…

NEW: San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones has lost her second chief of staff less than a year into the job. Jenise Carroll, who came to City Hall from DC, resigned today. expressnews.com/politics/artic…

San Antonio Is Booming. But #Poverty Hasn’t Budged. We tagged along with Olivia Cruz, 68, as she gives us a glimpse into the lives of the working poor. “You go to the grocery store to buy meat or vegetables, and the bill comes up to more than $100.” 🎁⬇️ nytimes.com/2026/04/29/us/…