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January 1989 features 1989 Bum Steer Awards! » Smile, Houston God Help Her » Dad’s Last Home Superpolitics Superbonanza! If These Walls Could Talk Texas Primer: King Ranch Casserole » columns Behind the Lines » Onward Through the Fog [Lifestyle] Bringing It All Back Home [Business] Two-Point Conversion [Sports] Making Waves [Travel] Playing It Safe [Classical Music] reporter Big Man, Small Town [Reporter] miscellany Roar of the Crowd State Secrets
February 1989 features The Lost Tribe » The Wooing of Chairman Wang Art for Heart’s Sake “I’m A Nazi Until Death” A Dirty, Rotten Mess Chip Ahoy » columns Behind the Lines Jailhouse Hock [Politics] Spot Market [Environment] Blithe Spirit [Popular Music] reporter This is Now [Reporter] miscellany Roar of the Crowd No TASP, No Play [State Secrets]
June 1989 features The Work of The Devil » Rock Bottom It Can Happen Here The Perfect Hill Country Weekend Bathing Beauty The Long, Strange Trip of Ed Bass Kid with a Gun columns Soviet Idealism [Art] Behind the Lines Moving On [Books] reporter Texas’ Nuclear Neighbor [Reporter] miscellany Fun Fare [Roar of the Crowd] Sonny Disposition [State Secrets]
August 1989 features The Big Picture Parish the Thought! The Sundown Kids The Texas 100 The Texas 100: Introduction The Texas 100: Minor Details The Texas 100: Close, But No Cigar The Texas 100: Index columns Behind the Lines reporter So Long, Starck; Bye-Bye, Blue Bird [Reporter] miscellany The Dark Side [Roar of the Crowd] The Battle Begins [State Secrets]
October 1989 features The Soul of East Texas » Vigil at Treaty Oak How Do You Say "Perestroika" In Spanish? Old Salts and Ancient Mariners The Day Leroy Died » Texas Primer: The Herkie Jump » columns Home Is Where the Art Is [Art] Behind the Lines That Brainpower Guy [Education] Whistling in the Dark [Books] reporter Animal Fights [Reporter] miscellany The Haves and the Have-Nots [Roar of the Crowd] We Wuz Robbed [State Secrets]
December 1989 features Wild Forever The All-American Crooks Get Along, Little Doggies » A Fool and His Money Liz and Me Teardown columns Images at War [Art] Texas and the new decade. [Behind the Lines] Black to Basics [Popular Music] Continental Drift [Books] reporter Irreconcilable Differences [Reporter] miscellany Voices of East Texas [Roar of the Crowd] Courting Disaster [State Secrets]