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Home, Semi-Sweet Home
It was the afternoon before Thanksgiving in Austin, and George W. Bush - then in his first term as governor and enjoying record-high approval...
If It Drives Like a Duck …
Sigh. The spin industry and its forebear, the marketing behemoth, think we are all such simps. "Used" cars seem low-class, so they became "pre-owned."...
Gas Well Smell Test
Coziness among city officials, advisors, and the drilling industry is making some folks hold their noses.
By JEFF PRINCE photos Naomi Vaughan
Fort Worth residents who...
Grass Capitalist
What's scarier than socialism for some? Obameritocracy.
By BEN SWALLOW
Toward the end of the presidential campaign, I started hearing the Republican rank and file express...
If It Drives Like a Duck …
Sigh. The spin industry and its forebear, the marketing behemoth, think we are all such simps. "Used" cars seem low-class, so they became "pre-owned."...
Adrift
A couple of months ago I found myself on the verge of drowning in the Gulf of Mexico. The skiff I was in capsized...
Phases and Stages
Four white lines beckoned from a tabletop in an Austin hotel room, and Roy Stamps bent over with a rolled-up dollar bill and snorted...
Phases and Stages
Four white lines beckoned from a tabletop in an Austin hotel room, and Roy Stamps bent over with a rolled-up dollar bill and snorted...
Déjà Nuke
The ink was barely dry on Luminant Energy's application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a license to add two 1,700 megawatt reactors...
Déjà Nuke
The ink was barely dry on Luminant Energy's application to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a license to add two 1,700 megawatt reactors...
