Dying for a Heart

For Ted Segal of Waco, the problem wasn’t getting a heart transplant; it was finding a donor. The delay was killing him.

by Cathy Schechter

A Stately House: A Photographic Portrait

Even on her one-hundredth birthday, the Texas Capitol looks good in places other building don’t even have places.

Text by Paul Burka

Learning to Love the Bomb

Can a Texas publisher of technical books make a difference in the nuclear powers’ arms race? You bet.

by Michael Ennis

The Wait for Deliverance

Despite all the mewling from the oil patch, there are still ways to make money at $15 a barrel. Here’s out guide to the terrible teens.

by Jan Jarboe Russell

No Wonderland

Once an oil-field service boomtown, Alice doesn’t live well anymore.

by Jan Jarboe Russell

It Stinks

Times are rotten for refineries.

by Jan Jarboe Russell

Earth, Rain, Wind, Fire

A wet year followed by a dry one made for one hellacious brush with disaster in the ranchlands of West Texas.

by Elmer Kelton

Don’t Even Ask!

Why is it that your favorite item in every antique store is bound to be the one thing that money can’t buy?

by Jerry Jeanmard

Texas Primer: Texas Guinan

She started out as a wide-eyed Waco cowgirl and ended up a New York speakeasy queen.

by Michael Corcoran

Behind the Lines

Travis or Tejano?

by Gregory Curtis

Politics

Fallen Idyll

Profligate and polarized, Austin attempts to salvage its future by looking into the past for its next mayor.

by John Taliaferro

Education

Paying the Price

When Decherd Turner took over the Humanities Research Center, UT’s big-budget rare-books library, he knew any changes he made would cost him. They did.

by Clifford Endres

Television

Border Bandstand

Tex-Mex variety is the new spice of TV life, and Brownsville’s Johnny Canales Show has the red-hot ratings to prove it.

Bill Crawford

Reporter

Just Add Water

The issues in El Paso’s colonias are watery and grave.

by Alison Cook

Reporter

Funky Chickens

The prairie chickens in Texas’ vanishing grasslands are booming and boyish.

by Alison Cook

Roar of the Crowd

Going broke; seeking justice; hearing from the Bush league; reviewing the force.

State Secrets

The hated mesquite tree finds a friend in South Texas; UT-San Antonio freshman got no learning of reading and writing; the sun shines on UT’s new basket ball coach; why banks are afraid to branch.