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You’re in the Gummint Now
Dear freshman Texas legislators: Welcome, you 37 new state representatives and two new senators who’ve never been through a session of the Texas Legislature....
Dead Zone
It used to be one of the spring break capitals of Mexico. Tens of thousands of college kids from all over Texas would make...
Aggie Christmas Present
Well, the Texas A&M University System top dogs got a little something extra in their stocking on Christmas Eve — a letter from 15...
Museum-Quality Trees
When the Kimbell Art Museum announced plans two years ago to build a new wing on the block-long stretch of grass and trees outside...
Twilight
The 112th session of the United States Congress doesn’t convene until January, but the GOP is already flexing its ignorance.
Last week Republicans announced they...
Film Fare
Alfred Hitchcock popularized the term “MacGuffin” to mean a plot device that engages the viewer’s attention. It makes sense, then, that MacGuffin’s is the...
On the Green Prairie
The cowboy life means long hours in the sun. And even after cowboys hang up their spurs and get enshrined in the Texas Cowboy...
High-Level Worries
By the fall of 2011, if the courts or legislators don’t act to stop it, Texas could become the “nuclear waste dump for the...
