Politics & Policy
January 1, 1982
The Party’s Over
Time was when Texas Republicans had to stand united. But now their party's in power and there's rivalry in the ranks.
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Politics & Policy
December 1, 1981
Behind the Lines
The big boom.
Politics & Policy
November 1, 1981
Behind the Lines
The water problem; or, Texas is not all wet.
Politics & Policy
September 30, 1981
Behind the Lines
In defense of failure—and success.
Politics & Policy
September 1, 1981
One Woman’s Tiny Problem Confronts Dallas City Hall
Vesta Cawley turned to the city bureaucracy for help with a problem that didn’t matter to any of the other 900,000 residents of Dallas. But it should have mattered more to city hall.
Politics & Policy
August 1, 1981
The Deal That Didn’t Work
Parceling out three new seats in Congress sounds like an easy job, but the Texas Legislature tried for two months and couldn’t do it.
Politics & Policy
July 31, 1981
Angry Men
Texas Fathers for Equal Rights joined divorced men from all over the country to protest family courts that have always favored mothers in child custody cases.
Politics & Policy
June 30, 1981
Behind the Lines
The war that won’t go away.
Politics & Policy
June 1, 1981
The Plane the Pentagon Couldn’t Stop
West of Fort Worth, General Dynamics builds the F-16, a good little fighter plane that could have been great if the Air Force brass had kept their hands off it.
Politics & Policy
May 31, 1981
Behind the Lines
Gaudy, drawling, filthy rich.
Politics & Policy
May 1, 1981
The Subway That Ate Houston
The most expensive, amazing, dynamic, futuristic, and sexy way not to solve a transit crisis.
Politics & Policy
May 1, 1981
The Governor’s New Clothes
Bill Clements, unmasked at last.
Politics & Policy
April 30, 1981
Behind the Lines
Two men from Dallas.
Politics & Policy
April 1, 1981
Rule, Hispania
In a city known for its tough ethnic politics, Henry Cisneros is out to prove that a Mexican Emerican can be elected mayor of San Antonio.
Politics & Policy
April 1, 1981
Behind the Lines
Strange bedfellows.
Politics & Policy
March 1, 1981
Speed Demons
State highway patrolmen hate the 55 mph speed limit almost as much as other Texas motorists do, and for better reasons.
Politics & Policy
March 1, 1981
Behind the Lines
Made In Japan
Politics & Policy
February 1, 1981
An Ounce of Prevention
The doctors who police other doctors are hard on their errant peers-but are they finding all the offenders?
Politics & Policy
February 1, 1981
Behind the Lines
It’s time to stop taking care of the Arabs and start taking care of ourselves.
Politics & Policy
January 1, 1981
King of the Mountain
Clements is ready for the Legislature, but is the Legislature ready for him?
Politics & Policy
January 1, 1981
Laying Down the Law
That’s what the Legislature is here to do, and unless we’re lucky, it just may.
Politics & Policy
January 1, 1981
Behind the Lines
East is East, West is West, and in Texas the twain shall never meet.
Politics & Policy
December 1, 1980
Behind the Lines
Enter Ronald Reagan—the liberals’ true friend.
Politics & Policy
November 1, 1980
Why Is Houston Falling Apart?
Because nobody at city hall is doing his job, that’s why.
Politics & Policy
November 1, 1980
Behind the Lines
The press keeps telling us how bad Carter and Reagan are, but let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
Politics & Policy
October 1, 1980
What Ever Happened to the Storm of the Century?
Hurricane Allen proved that everyone talks about the weather but nobody knows much about it—least of all the National Weather Service.
Politics & Policy
September 1, 1980
The $38,000 a Year, Wife and Two Kids, House and a Pool Blues
Is inflation deflating your standard of living? You are not alone.
Politics & Policy
August 31, 1980
Behind the Lines
On the Move.
Politics & Policy
August 1, 1980
Fire!
What you don’t know about your fire department could burn you up.
Politics & Policy
July 31, 1980
Behind the Lines
Poor Houston.
Politics & Policy
July 1, 1980
Why I Turned In Lee Otis Johnson
When black militant Lee Otis Johnson got out of prison his old friends welcomed him with open arms. Later, some of them wished they hadn’t.
Politics & Policy
June 30, 1980
Behind the Lines
Once again our presidential candidates are promising to get the government under control. Here’s why they won’t.
Politics & Policy
May 31, 1980
The Bean Squawk
A lot of farmers and gardeners think Congressman Kika de la Garza is a pest.
Politics & Policy
May 31, 1980
Behind the Lines
None of the old clichés about voluntarism are true except this one: it works.
Politics & Policy
April 30, 1980
The Star-Crossed Palm of Billy Clayton
This is the question: is it a crime to be politically inept?
Politics & Policy
April 30, 1980
Behind the Lines
Democracy in America
Politics & Policy
April 1, 1980
The Tragedy of Bob Bullock
Bob Bullock, in his flamboyant style, built a powerful state agency. Then Bob Bullock, in his flamboyant style, was seduced by its power.
Politics & Policy
April 1, 1980
Behind the Lines
Forgetting free trade, scrapping our factories, and other modest solutions to our economic troubles.
Politics & Policy
March 1, 1980
Behind the Lines
No news is bad news.
Politics & Policy
February 1, 1980
Behind the Lines
Why Houston has the best schools in the state.
Politics & Policy
January 1, 1980
Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven . . .
The Panhandle is home for the country’s only H-bomb assembly plant. Aren’t you glad we told you?
Politics & Policy
January 1, 1980
Behind the Lines
Two questions about school desegregation: Is busing the only way? Are integrated schools inferior?
Politics & Policy
December 1, 1979
Behind the Lines
If the eighties are here, where did the seventies go.
Politics & Policy
November 1, 1979
The New Apartment Slums
Behind the gleaming facades of many new apartment villages are the crumbling walls of next year’s urban blight.
Politics & Policy
November 1, 1979
The Truth About John Connally
There are two questions about John Connally: Is he good enough to be president? Is he too bad to be president?
Politics & Policy
November 1, 1979
Behind the Lines
A modest proposal for the eighties.
Politics & Policy
September 30, 1979
After the Fall
Nicaragua’s new junta may discover it’s easier to depose a dictator than to rebuild a ravaged country.
Politics & Policy
September 30, 1979
Behind the Lines
Give me land, lots of land . . .
Politics & Policy
August 31, 1979
Up the Creek
Everyone in Austin loves sparkling Barton Creek—especially the developers.
Politics & Policy
August 31, 1979
Behind the Lines
Waltzing across Texas.