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Customer Service
Readers’ choice: Junker Val’s, 3458 Bluebonnet Circle
Critic’s choice: Glen Keely, Poag Mahone’s Irish Pub, 700 Carroll St
Businesses make mistakes. But how a place...
While There’s Still Hope
In case somebody didn’t notice it because we had such beautifully mild conditions here for once, August around the world was the hottest since...
A Script For Texas
The upstairs dining room buzzed with hungry patrons at Amelia’s Attic, an antique store on the Gainesville town square. The customers were drenched in...
Homes for All
For years, getting apartment developers to include affordable housing in their plans was like buying a used car –– it took a lot of...
Wage Slaves
Raising the minimum wage suddenly became a hot issue in the Texas governor’s race just after Labor Day, with Democrat Wendy Davis endorsing it...
Hire CCA, See No Evil
Immigration policies, the drug war, and lobbyists are keeping the private prison industry humming. No matter what sins a private prison company has committed,...
Negative Charge
In a cramped office inside a Shell station at the corner of North University Drive and Jacksboro Highway, Ramzan R. Ali’s phone was ringing...
The Other End of the Pipeline
I’m kayaking the bay that separates Port Isabel and South Padre Island when a large dorsal fin breaks the water. Another fin surfaces, and...
Davis Gets Help
Not many people gave Democratic candidate Ann Richards a prayer of winning the Texas gubernatorial race in 1990 against the deep-pocketed Republican rancher Clayton...
The Unbearable Lightness of Being White
Once in the late 1970s, I was returning home on foot from a night of as much debauchery as I, a poor college student,...
