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Alan says: I am in favor of limiting the governor to two consecutive terms. But blacklisting someone after eight years altogether, regardless of how good or bad they did their job, can needlessly force an effective public official out of public service. Many state governors throughout history have served well over eight years without their constituents regretting it. I would point out that such a system is wholly unworkable in twenty-first century America: we live in the era of the permanent campaign and the 24-hour news cycle. A governor facing re-election every other year would essentially do nothing but fundraise (which is close to what most do anyway even with four-year terms). (November 19th, 2009 at 11:09pm)
Joe Holley
Features
Dawn
(September 2001)
Columns | Miscellany
Case Open
Nearly three years after attorney Steve Davis’ body was found, his family still doesn’t know how he died. Thanks to an out-of-court settlement with Comanche County, they probably never will. (June 1999)
Is Waco Wacko?
After the latest standoff there—by an armed UFO cultist—you might think so. But on the fifth anniversary of the Branch Davidian siege, the Central Texas community is doing just fine, thank you. (April 1998)
Weekly, Strongly
Why are small-town Texas newspapers thriving? Because unlike big-city dailies, they know their readers, and they give them what they want. (December 1997)
The Doctor Is In
For El Paso physician Abraham Verghese, writing about life and death in the age of AIDS is a prescription for literary success. (June 1997)
Tough Nuts to Crack
Marketing the Texas pecan like the California raisin seems to make good business sense. So why do small Texas growers think it’s a shell game? (March 1996)
Reporter
Snyderman
A Holocaust survivor saves a West Texas town (maybe). (November 1998)
Unconventional
From Lee Otis Johnson’s arrest to Ben Barnes’s ascent, 1968 was a hell of a year in Texas. (August 1998)
Hog-tied
The Panhandle goes hog wild. (December 1997)
Heirhart
A San Antonio pilot takes her admiration of Amelia Earhart to another plane. (March 1997)
Guarded
Private prisons lock out the press. (February 1997)
Sleepy Teepees
The last surviving Teepee Motel in Texas. (December 1996)
A Whitman Sampler
Thirty years later, the legacy of Charles Whitman’s shooting spree at the University of Texas still towers above us. (September 1996)
Belo the Belt
Reading the Arlington newspaper war. (July 1996)
