A new, nice hotel recently opened in Zapata. And it's staying booked, especially on weekends. For a lot of places, this would be minor news. But for the 5,500 or so residents of this sun-baked seat of ...

During the morning of Jan. 7, I interviewed Bendele about largemouth bass fishing on Falcon Reservoir during January and February for a column on wintertime bass fishing that ran last week. We talked ...